Professor Max D. Ticktin
Max D. Ticktin is assistant professor of Hebrew language and literature at the George Washington University and associate chair of its Judaic Studies Program. He teaches courses in Hebrew language, Israeli literature, history of modern Hebrew literature, Yiddish language, modern Jewish literatures, roots of Western civilization, Hebrew
prophets, and Biblical wisdom literature. He has served as assistant national director of B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations, as Hillel director at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago, and as a visiting professor at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. His education includes a master of Hebrew literature and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary and graduate studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem; the New School for Social Research; and the Jewish Theological Seminary.