Dr. David Sperber

Head of the Curatorial Studies Program at the Schechter Institutes in Jerusalem, is a curator, art scholar, and critic of contemporary art. He specializes in contemporary Jewish art and art created in Israel, and in the relations between art and religion.

Until recently, he served as a postdoctoral associate at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University where he also taught in the Art History Department. Dr. Sperber is currently a research fellow at the David Hartman Center for Intellectual Leadership at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and a member of the HUC-JIR Israel Rabbinical Program in Jerusalem.

In 2012, he curated the international exhibition ‘Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art’ at the Mishkan Le’Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod in Israel. His book ‘Devoted Resistance: Jewish Feminist Art in the US and Israel’ will be published by the Hebrew University Magnes Press.