Jack N. Lightstone is a Canadian professor of history, and former President and Vice-Chancellor of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. He took office on July 1, 2006, to serve a five-year term as President and as a professor of history.
He is an expert on ancient and contemporary North American Judaism, has lectured extensively and written six books. He is fluent in three languages - English, French and Hebrew.[1]
Administrative career
Prior to Brock, he was Provost and Vice-Rector at Concordia University in Montreal, where he is credited.[1] with leading an extensive academic planning overhaul while under budget constraints.
Works
Lightstone, Jack N. (1979). Yose the Galilean. Studies in Judaism in late antiquity. Vol. 31. Leiden: Brill. ISBN9789004059887. OCLC715735403.
——— (1988). Society, the sacred, and scripture in ancient Judaism: a sociology of knowledge. Studies in Christianity and Judaism. Vol. 3. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN9780889209756. OCLC243565360.
———; Robbins, Vernon K. (2006). Mishnah and the Social Formation of the Early Rabbinic Guild: a Socio-Rhetorical Approach. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN9780889207295. OCLC753479530.