David Shulman is the Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was born in Iowa but moved to Israel in 1967 at age eighteen. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 1987, Shulman is the author or coauthor of nineteen books, including The Hungry God: Hindu Tales of Filicide and Devotion, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
David Shulman is known to many Andhras for his tranlations of Telugu poetry (with Velcheru Narayana Rao) and his books with VNR and Sanjay Subrahmaniam : "Textures of Time", "Symbols of Substance" and others. He is also an activist and has a new book""With Dark Hope, Shulman has written a book of deep moral searching, an attempt to discover how his beloved Israel went wrong—and how, through acts of compassionate disobedience, it might still be brought back.". Excerpts can be found here:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/755748.html
