Ari Kelman

Ari Y Kelman is the inaugural holder of the Jim Joseph Professorship in Education and Jewish Studies in the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where he is the director of the Concentration in Education and Jewish Studies and is serving as the Director of the BJPA @ Stanford. He writes regularly about contemporary Jewish life in venues both scholarly and popular. His research revolves around technologies of religious knowledge, and it has taken him to church, to Krakow, Poland, to many many b’nai mitzvah and deep into the archives of religious music of the early 1970s.