Aušra Pažėraitė

Aušra Pažėraitė is Associate Professor of History of Religions at the Centre for Religious Studies and Research of Vilnius University. She is the author of the book Formation of the Lithuanian Orthodox Judaism (Vilnius: Verus Aureus, 2005), the coauthor of a collective monograph Secularisation and Contemporary Culture, edited by Rita Šerpytytė (Vilnius: Vilnius University Publishing House, 2013). Primary focus of her researches is Judaica and history of Jewish Thought, and especially Emmanuel Levinas. She translated several texts by Emmanuel Levinas into Lithuanian, and also is the author of number of articles on him, on Maimonides and rabbinic hermeneutics, onIsaac Troki, and in general on the history and thought of Lithuanian Jews.