David Berger (historian)

Rabbi
David Berger
Personal
ReligionJudaism
NationalityAmerican
DenominationOrthodox
Alma materYeshiva University
PositionDean of Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies Director, Wilf Campus Jewish Studies
YeshivaYeshiva University
PositionDean
OrganizationBernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies
SemikhahRIETS

David Berger (born 1943) is an American academic, dean of Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, as well as chair of Yeshiva College's Jewish Studies department. He is the author of various books and essays on medieval Jewish apologetics and polemics, as well as having edited the modern critical edition of the medieval polemic text Nizzahon Vetus. Outside academic circles he is best known for The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, a criticism of Chabad messianism.