Dr. Alan Mittleman is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Religion at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA. The "Muhlenberg Scholar in Jewish Studies" joined the faculty in September, 1988.

He teaches courses in the history of Judaism and in religious studies at the Lutheran-related undergraduate institution. He is a member of several learned societies and is a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Dr. Mittleman is the author of three books, Between Kant and Kabbalah (State University of New York Press, 1990), The Politics of Torah: The Jewish Political Tradition and the Founding of Agudat Israel (SUNY, 1996) and The Scepter Shall Not Depart From Judah: Perspectives on the Persistence of the Political in Judaism (Lexington Books, 2000).

He has contributed chapters to several volumes and has published articles on German Jewry, Jewish political thought, religion and politics, and Jewish-Christian relations in FIRST THINGS, This World, Commonweal, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, S'VARA and the Jewish Political Studies Review. He serves as Book Review Editor of the latter journal. His reviews have appeared in numerous scholarly and popular journals.

He holds a B.A. (Magna cum Laude) from Brandeis University and an M.A. and Ph.D. (with distinction) from Temple University. Dr. Mittleman, a rabbi, is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly (Conservative). He holds a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany and has served as Guest Research Professor at the University of Cologne. He is also the recipient of the Harry Starr Fellowship in Modern Jewish History at Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies.

He has lectured at universities, seminaries, and adult institutes in the U.S., Europe and Israel. Co-author (with Martin E. Marty and Edward H. Flannery) of Interfaith Circles, Mittleman has been an active participant in Jewish-Christian relations. He has been interviewed by Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. His editorials on Jewish-Christian relations have appeared in newspapers around the country. In 1986, after visiting Jewish and Christian dissidents in the USSR, Mittleman briefed Vatican authorities in Rome on their situation. In 1987, he met with Pope John Paul II as part of a Jewish leadership delegation. Later that year, he spoke on the meaning of religious liberty for American Jews in the chambers of the US Senate. In 1994, he was an invited speaker at the International Jewish-Christian Conference in Jerusalem.

Prof. Mittleman serves as Director of the project “Jews and the American Public Square.” The project is a three-year research, publication, and conference program initiated by a major grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts. He directs the project for the Center for Jewish Community Studies in Philadelphia.

He makes his home in Allentown, PA with his wife Patricia and sons Aryeh and Joel.