Dr. Jack Wertheimer is the Provost of The Jewish Theological Seminary, in which capacity he acts as the Chief Academic Officer. He is the author of Unwelcome Strangers: East European Jews in Imperial Germany, which was published by Oxford University Press in 1987. He is also the editor of The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed, published by Cambridge University Press in 1987. Dr. Wertheimer published three books in 1993, two of which are edited volumes: The Uses of Tradition: Jewish Continuity in the Modern Era (JTS/Harvard), and The Modern Jewish Experience — A Reader's Guide (NYU Press). He also wrote A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America (Basic Books), which won the National Jewish Book Award for the best book on contemporary Jewish life in 1993–1994.

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