Jon Levisohn

Jon A. Levisohn is an American academic who is the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Associate Professor of Jewish Educational Thought at Brandeis University. Levisohn is also the director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis. He was the chair of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies until 2024. At Brandeis, he also chairs the Seminar on Contemporary Jewish Life. He is a co-editor of the Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish Education.

He is a philosopher of general and religious education. Recent work has focused on how Jews think about the goals of Jewish education. He serves as the host of the Learning About Learning podcast.

Education Maimonides School Harvard University, BA Stanford University, MA Stanford University, PhD