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Don Seeman

Don Seeman is associate professor of religion and Jewish studies at Emory University. His current book project, Neighborhood Mystics: An Ethnography of Everyday Transcendence in Chabad-Lubavitch, is supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council and the Mind and Life Foundation.

July 16, 2014

Publishing Godliness: The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Other Revolution

Don Seeman

Much of the discussion of the Rebbe's legacy focuses on his charisma, his saintliness, and his organizational skills, but first and arguably foremost, he was a book publisher.

Winter 2014

Pew’s Jews: Religion Is (Still) the Key

Don Seeman

Who are the “Jews of no religion” in the much-discussed Pew Research Center's “A Portrait of Jewish Americans”? It’s a question that gets at the deep structures of Jewish life and the inadequacy of many of the sociological methods used to describe it.