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Shuly Rubin Schwartz, Irving Lehrman Research Professor of American Jewish History, a groundbreaking scholar of the modern Jewish experience and a visionary institutional leader, is the eighth chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the first woman to serve in this role since JTS was founded in 1886.

Chancellor Schwartz is devoted to building on JTS’s unique strengths as a Jewish institution of higher learning that trains future leaders through deep study—with both head and heart—of Jewish texts, ideas, and history. Students develop the creative ability to imbue others with the intellectual, cultural, and religious sustenance that our tradition offers, and they enrich every community of which they are a part.

Chancellor Schwartz was one of the first women on the JTS faculty and played an instrumental role in introducing Jewish gender studies into the curriculum. As dean of the Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies, JTS’s undergraduate dual-degree program with Columbia University and Barnard College, and later as dean of the Gershon Kekst Graduate School and Provost, she played a central role in shaping and strengthening JTS’s academic programs, while teaching and mentoring countless students.

Chancellor Schwartz is the author of The Emergence of Jewish Scholarship in America: The Publication of the Jewish Encyclopedia, and The Rabbi’s Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life. The latter was awarded the National Jewish Book Award.