Rabbi Jeffrey A. Summit is the Neubauer Executive Director of Tufts Hillel at Tufts University, where he also serves as Research Professor in the Department of Music. He also holds appointments as Research Professor in the Judaic Studies Program of the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literatures and as the University's Jewish Chaplain. He received rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and a Ph.D. from Tufts University where he studied ethnomusicology in Tufts interdisciplinary doctoral program. |
Rabbi Summit has a special interest in the field of oral history and for four summers has conducted an oral history project the with the Jewish community of Annecy, France, for American students, under the auspices of Tufts European Center. For three additional summers he has taught a seminar at the Tufts European Center on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism in France. He has co-directed a project funded by the Department of Homeland Security establishing Muslim/Jewish/Christian dialogues and inter-religious education on five university campuses. He is currently directing the Cummings/Hillel Program on Holocaust and Genocide Education for Tufts University. An accomplished musician, he has performed Jewish and traditional American music throughout the United States, as well as in England and Israel. During the Yom Kippur War, he performed for Israeli soldiers in the Sinai and Golan Heights. His songs examining those experiences were recorded on his record album Shepherd of the Highways. |