Norman M. Chansky is a graduate of the Boston’s Prozdor Hebrew High School, 1949. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1958. Chansky is professor emeritus at Temple University, and had been appointed visiting professor at Tel Aviv University from 1973–1974. His writings include Essence of the Psalms: Poems Inspired by the Sacred Text (Wipf & Stock, 2007), a collection of more than 150 poems inspired by the canonical book of the Psalms, and Old Testament Lore: A Mosaic Tapestry (Wipf & Stock, 2011). His poems have appeared in several collections, including “A Converso Lament” in Karen Primack’s Under One Canopy: Readings in Jewish Diversity (2002) and “A Tribute to Anton Schmid,” set to music by Pete Seeger in Jerry Silverman’s The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust (2002).
