Byron L. Sherwin

Byron L. Sherwin, PhD, was a professor of Jewish studies at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago before his death in May 2015. He was trained at the Jewish Theological Seminary under Abraham Joshua Heschel and he received his PhD at the University of Chicago. He authored numerous books on Jewish ethics, Jewish theology, and Jewish history.

Byron contributed a chapter to “The Learning of the Jews”: What Latter-day Saints Can Learn from Jewish Religious Experience