Azriel Graeber

Azriel Graeber (born 1948) is a freelance journalist, scholar, PhD and founder of the Jewish Scholarship Society.

A main focus of his thesis was on the responsa of Rabad of Posquières, later to be the subject of a book by Isadore Twersky of Harvard.

He was also on the directors board of the Bal Teshuva Halfway House of New York, and is currently the president of The Jewish Scholarship Society.

Graeber has never retained any formal teaching positions, although he was listed as holder of the Akiba and Sara Gurtner Chair of Jewish Studies at Touro College for the scholastic year of 1992.

The libraries holdings include several antique items of significant historical importance as well as books ranging on topics from the Social Sciences to biographies on notable Jewish personalities.

Graeber, as freelance journalist and scholar, has written on many topics, mainly within the scope of Jewish studies.

][1] Several notable essays include: "The Spanish Cholov Yisroel Controversy of 1763 and its effects on the Jews of Barcelona", "Slobodka Yeshiva: Myth or Musser", "How Hungarian Jews have ruined American Judaism: A Complete History" and "West Side vs. East Side: Two communities.