Dr. Richard Freund

Judaic Studies Department - Chair and History Department

860.768.4022
freund@hartford.edu

Education

Ph.D. - Jewish Theological Seminary of America
M.A. - Jewish Theological Seminary of America
B.A. - Queens College
B.J.L. - Herzliah College

Richard Freund is the Director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies and Greenberg Professor of Jewish History at the University of Hartford. He has directed six archaeological projects in Israel and three projects in Europe on behalf of the University including: Bethsaida, Qumran, the Cave of Letters, Nazareth, Yavne, Har Karkom (Mount Sinai) as well as archaeological projects in Burgos and Cadiz, Spain and a research project at the extermination camp at Sobibor, Poland. Dr. Freund is the author of six books on archaeology, two books on Jewish ethics, over one hundred scholarly articles and has appeared in fifteen television documentaries.