Eli Rosenblatt

Eli Rosenblatt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on Jewish ideas and cultures across the Americas, particularly in the United States and the Caribbean. He is the author of the forthcoming monograph Creole Israel: The Jewish Atlantic World After Slavery, which repositions multilingualism to explore Creole and African Diasporic influences in American Jewish life.

His work examines intersections between Black Christian Hebraism and Jewish cultural traditions, as exemplified in his lecture on Charles Lee Russell—a pioneering African American scholar of rabbinic literature. Rosenblatt’s scholarship bridges theological studies, postcolonial theory, and historical analysis, emphasizing overlooked dialogues between Afro-Protestant intellectuals and Ashkenazic Jewish communities.

No academic awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. His advising activities are not detailed here, but his research engagement includes collaborative textual interpretation projects tied to historical and cultural exchange.