Faculty
Liora Halperin, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, recently received a grant from the Hadassah Brandeis Institute to support her research on the murder of a Zionist migrant, presumably by a local Christian Arab, in Ottoman
Eyal Rivlin, Hebrew Instructor, will be playing guitar and leading chanting with his wife, Danya Rivlin, at the Shabbaton and concert "Davvenology: The Secret of Mystic Prayer," led by Rabbi Shir Yaakov Feit, January 9-10. This event, whose theme is
Nan Goodman, Professor of English, recently attended the Association for Jewish Studies conference in Baltimore, December 16-17, 2014.Nan also led a session at a colloquium at Brown University on Law's Moving Image (12/12-12/13). Nan's session
David Shneer, Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History and Professor of History, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, is excited to announce the publication of Lin Jaldati: Trümmerfrau der Seele with Hentrich&
Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies, presented a paper on writers Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, and David Bezmozgis at the conference "The New Wave of Russian-Jewish Cultural
Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor in Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently spoke at the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion and Association for Jewish Studies. His papers
The Middle East Studies Association has awarded the 2014 Albert Hourani Book Award to Brian Catlos's Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, ca. 1050-1614 (Cambridge: 2014).At the awards ceremony held on November 23 in Washington DC
Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies moderated an event with the author Gary Shteyngart at Baruch College in New York centered on Shteyngart's memoir, Little
We are excited to announce that Liora Halperin, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, has recently published her first book, Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, andLanguage Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948.The promotion and
Read Professor Liora Halperin's recent article, "The Irony of Erasing Arabic," which was recently published in The Forward.