Rate My Professor Ari Kelman

Kelman’s research centers on the forms and practices of religious knowledge transmission, with a focus on American Jewry, exploring topics such as Yiddish radio, Evangelical worship music, Jewish online learning, release time programs, religious dictionaries, Jewish identity and ritual, Google algorithms on religion, Jewish students and antisemitism, citational research networks, and campus chaplaincy. His books include Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio (University of California Press, 2009), Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America (NYU Press, 2018), Is Diss a System?: A Milt Gross Comic Reader (editor, NYU Press, 2010), Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary (co-author, Alban Institute, 2011), and Beyond Jewish Identity (co-editor, Academic Studies Press, 2019). Key articles include “American Judaism in the Twenty-First Century” (2025), “Jewish Education” (2024), and “The Other Dual Curriculum: Jewish Community High School Students' Reflections on What Counts as ‘Jewish’ Learning” (2023). Kelman edits Jewish Social Studies, chairs the Network for Research in Jewish Education, and teaches courses such as Understanding Jews, IDEAS Seminar, and Learning Religion: How People Acquire Religious Commitments.