Zohar Atkins

Zohar Atkins is a poet, rabbi, philosopher, and theologian. He is the founder of Etz Hasadeh, a Center for Existential Torah Study. He earned a DPhil in Theology from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a B.A. and M.A. from Brown. He is the author of Nineveh (Carcanet, 2019) and An Ethical and Theological Appropriation of Heidegger's Critique of Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). His poetry won an Oxonian Review Prize in 2012 and an Eric Gregory Award in 2018. He is a David Hartman Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and was named by the Jewish Week as one of "36 under 36" change makers in Jewish life.