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CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF JEWISH HISTORYHebrew University Jerusalem
DINUR
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF JEWISH HISTORY
Hebrew University Jerusalem
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New York
University
Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Chazan, Robert
Diner, Hasia R.
Engel, David
Feldman, Yael S.
Fleming, Daniel E.
Ivry, Alfred L.
Kamelhar, Rosalie
Levine, Baruch A.
Rubenstein, Jeffrey L.
Schiffman, Lawrence H.
Wolfson, Elliot R.
e-mail: rc2@is.nyu.edu
telephone: (212) 998-8072
fax: (212) 995-4055
S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Ph.D. 1967 (history), M.A. 1963 (history), B.A. 1958 (philosophy), Columbia.
Major Interests:
Medieval Jewish history; medieval polemics.
Selected Works:
Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992)
Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and the Jewish Response (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989)
European Jewry and the First Crusade (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987).
Affiliations:
Past President, Association for Jewish Studies
President; American Academy for Jewish Research
Medieval Academy of America.
Fellowships/Honors:
Honorary doctorate, Hebrew Union College, 1994
Honorary doctorate, Gratz College, 1989
Honorary doctorate, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1987.
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e-mail: hrd1@is4.nyu.edu
telephone: (212) 998-8988
fax: (212) 995-4178
Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, Hebrew and Judaic Studies;
Professor, History Ph.D. 1975 (history), Illinois; M.A.T. 1970 (history), Chicago; B.A. 1968 (history), Wisconsin.
Major Interests:
American Jewish history; American immigration history; women's history.
Selected Works:
In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977; reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995);
A Time For Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880, The Jewish People in America series, vol. 2 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, fall 1992);
Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984; 4th printing, 1990).
Affiliations:
Curriculum Consultant/Lecturer, University of Texas, El Paso, May 1995;
Academic Planning Board, Gratz College Centennial, Gratz College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1995.
Fellowships/Honors:
Summer Stipend Award, National Endowment for the
Humanities, 1994;
Distinguished Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Maryland, 1992-1993;
Fulbright Lecturer in American History, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel, 1990-1991.
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email: de2@is.nyu.edu
telephone: 998-8974
fax: 995-4178
Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Ph.D. 1979 (history), B.A. 1972 (history), California (Los Angeles).
Major Interest: history of the Jews in Eastern Europe.
Selected Works:
Between Liberation and Flight: Holocaust Survivors in Poland and the Struggle for Leadership, 1944-1946 (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers, 1996);
Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1943-1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 1993);
In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1939-1942 (University of North Carolina Press, 1987).
Affiliations:
Academic Advisory Council, YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research, 1993-present;
Association for Jewish Studies;
Historical Association of Israel;
American Historical Association;
Board Member, Polin, 1993-present.
Fellowships/Honors:
Golden Dozen Teaching Award, New York University, 1995-1996;
Center for the Study of Polish Jewry, Research Grants, 1985-1986, 1987-1988;
Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Humanities, Outstanding Lecturer, 1986-1987;
Inter-University Project for the study of Illegal Jewish Immigration to Palestine, Research Grant, 1985-1988;
Bernstein-Maslansky Fund, Research Grant, 1983-1984;
Charles Brown Foundation, Israel Research Fellowship, 1982-1983;
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, International Fellowship in Jewish Studies, 1980-1981.
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e-mail: yf1@is.nyu.edu
telephone: 998-8987
fax: 995-4178
Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies 1983-1989 Psychoanalytic Research Training; Ph.D. 1981, M.Phil. 1980 (Hebrew literature, Russian fiction, and literary theory), Columbia; M.A. 1976 (medieval Hebrew literature), Hebrew College; B.A. 1967 (Hebrew and English literature), Tel-Aviv.
Major Interests: literary theory; gender and cultural studies; psychoanalytic criticism.
Selected Works:
"'And Rebecca Loved Jacob,' But Freud Did Not," in Freud and Forbidden Knowledge, ed. Peter L. Rudnytsky and Ellen H. Spitz (New York University Press, 1994);
Teaching the Hebrew Bible as Literature, coed. (Modern Language Association Publications, 1989);
Modernism and Cultural Transfer: Gabriel Preil and the Tradition of Jewish Literary Bilingualism (Cincinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press, 1986).
Affiliations:
American Comparative Literature Association;
International Comparative Literature Association;
Board Member, National Association of Professors of Hebrew, 1995-present;
Organizer and Chair, Modern Language Association, 1992-1996;
Board Member, Prooftexts, 1985-present;
Board Member, Program Committee, Association for Israel Studies, 1984-present;
Board Member, Program Committee, Association for Jewish Studies, 1983-1986, 1989-1992.
Fellowships/Honors:
The Koerner Fellowship, Oxford Center for Hebrew Culture, 1996;
National Endowment for Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1989;
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for Research Abroad, 1984-1985;
American Comparative Literature Association Travel Grant, 1983.
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e-mail: df2@is3.nyu.edu
telephone: (212) 998-8985
fax: (212) 995-4178
Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies Ph.D. 1990 (Near Eastern languages and civilizations), Harvard; M.Div. 1985 (Bible), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; B.S. 1979 (geology), Stanford.
Major Interests:
Assyriology; Hebrew Bible interpretation and cultural history; ancient Syria; Emar; ancient religion; interplay of ancient Near Eastern societies.
Selected Works:
Time at Emar: The Ritual Year in aSyrian Diviner's Archive (forthcoming);
"The Emar Festivals: City Unity and Syrian Identity Under Hittite Hegemony," Emar in Prospect (Bethesda: CDL Press, 1996);
The Installation of Baal's High Priestess at Emar (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992).
Affiliations:
American Oriental Society; Society of Biblical Literature;
American Schools of Oriental Research.
Fellowships/Honors:
NYU Research Challenge Fund, 1995;
NYU Presidential Fellowship, 1994;
National Endowment for Humanities Summer Stipend, 1991.
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email: ai1@is2.nyu.edu
telephone: (212) 998-8983
fax: (212) 995-4178Skirball Professor of Jewish Thought, Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Professor, Middle Eastern Studies D.Phil. 1971 (Islamic philosophy), Oxford; Ph.D. 1963, M.A. 1958 (Jewish philosophy), Brandeis; B.A. 1957 (English and philosophy), Brooklyn College.
Major Interests:
Medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy; medieval philosophy; history of philosophy; modern Jewish thought.
Selected Works:
Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's De anima (Egypt: Supreme Council of Culture, 1994);
The Treatise on the Perfection of the Soul of Moses of Narbonne (Israel Academy for Science and Humanities, 1977);
Al-Kindi's Metaphysics (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1974).
Affiliations:
American Philosophical Association;
President, Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, 1995-1997;
Board Member, American Academy for Jewish Research, 1991-1995;
American Oriental Society;
Societe Internationale pour l'etude de la Philosophie Medievale;
Association for Jewish Studies;
Medieval Academy of America;
International Society for Neoplatonic Thought;
International Society for the History of Arabic and Islamic Science and Philosophy.
Fellowships/Honors:
Council for the International Exchange of Scholars Lecturing Award, 1989;
National Endowment for the Humanities Research and Teaching Awards, 1973, 1976, 1978-1979, 1980-1981;
Fulbright Awards for Lecturing and Research, 1963-1965, 1972-1973, 1982-1983.
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email: rk4@is3.nyu.edu
telephone: (212) 998-8982
fax: (212) 995-4178
Director, Hebrew Language Program, Hebrew and Judaic Studies Ph.D. 1986 (modern Hebrew literature), New York; M.A. 1975 (Hebrew), Hunter College; B.A. 1973 (psychology), Queens College.
Major Interest: Hebrew language.
Selected Works:
"Metaphor and Beyond: Illness in the Works of Agnon," Halapeed, ed. and contributor (Conference of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, 1986).
Affiliations:
Adviser on Hebrew Language, Jewish Culture Foundation, NYU;
Coordinator, Hebrew Language Workshops, Jewish Culture Foundation, NYU;
Editorial Adviser, Bitzaron, Hebrew Journal of Arts and Letters;
National Association of Professors of Hebrew;
Association of Jewish Studies;
Modern Language Association.
Fellowships/Honors:
Richard Scheuer Fellowship in Hebrew Culture and Education;
Mellon Award.
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e-mail: bal1@is6.nyu.edu
telephone: (212) 998-8975
fax: (212) 995-4178Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Hebrew and Judaic Studies Ph.D. 1962 (Mediterranean studies), M.A. 1959 (Mediterranean studies), Brandeis; B.A. 1951 (comparative literature), Western Reserve.
Major Interests: Bible; Near Eastern studies.
Selected Works:
Numbers 1-20, The Anchor Bible Commentary, vol. 1 (New York: Doubleday and Co., 1993);
"Leviticus Commentary," in Torah Commentary (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1989);
In the Presence of the Lord (E. J. Brill, 1974).
Affiliations:
Past President, American Oriental Society Association for Jewish Studies;
Former Board Member, Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis;
Past President, The Biblical Colloquium;
World Union of Jewish Studies;
NYU Representative, American Schools of Oriental Research;
The Archaeological Council, Jerusalem.
Fellowships/Honors:
Doctor of Hebrew Letters, Honoris Causa, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1987;
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1975-1976;
Senior Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1967-1968.
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email: jr6@is3.nyu.edu
telephone: (212) 998-8978
fax: (212) 995-4178
Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies Ph.D. 1992 (religion), Columbia; M.A. 1987 (Talmud and Rabbinics), Jewish Theological Seminary; B.A. 1985 (religion), Oberlin.
Major Interests: Rabbinic literature; ancient Judaism; Jewish law; Jewish ethics; history of religions.
Selected Works:
The History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995);
"Purim, Liminality, Communitas," Association of Jewish Studies Review 17 (1992): 247-77.
Affiliations:
Society of Biblical Literature;
American Academy of Religion; Association of Jewish Studies.
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e-mail: lawrence.schiffman@nyu.edu
telephone: (212) 998-8979
fax: (212) 995-4178
Ethel and Irwin A. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Director, Undergraduate Studies Ph.D. 1974 (Near Eastern and Judaic studies), M.A. and B.A. 1970 (Near Eastern and Judaic studies), Brandeis.
Major Interests:
Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish religious, political, and social history in late antiquity; the history of Jewish law and Talmudic literature.
Selected Works:
"Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls," Wellsprings 42 (fall, 1995): 25-31;
Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1994);
From Text to Tradition, A History of Judaism in Second Temple and Rabbinic Times (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1989).
Affiliations:
Editorial Team, Dead Sea Scrolls;
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU;
Fellow, American Academy for Jewish Research;
Columbia University Seminar for the Study of the Hebrew Bible;
Vice President, Association for Jewish Studies;
Board Member, World Union of Jewish Studies;
Society for Biblical Literature (Qumran section).
Fellowships/Honors:
Shoshana Shier Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, 1996;
Fellow, Annenberg Research Institute (now Center for Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania), 1992-1993;
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1989-1990;
Visiting Professor: Yale University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Duke University, and the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow.
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email: erw1@is2.nyu.edu
telephone: (212) 998-8986
fax: (212) 995-4178
Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Director, Religious Studies Ph.D. 1986 (Jewish mysticism and philosophy), M.A. 1983 (Jewish mysticism and philosophy), Brandeis; B.A. and M.A. 1979 (philosophy), Queens College.
Major Interests:
Jewish mysticism and philosophy; gender construction and the history of religion; symbolism and myth; philosophical hermeneutics and the phenomenology of religious experience.
Selected Works:
Along the Path: Studies in Kabbalistic Myth, Symbolism, and Hermeneutics (State University of New York Press, 1995);
Circle in the Square: Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabbalistic Symbolism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995);
Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism (Princeton University Press, 1994).
Affiliations:
Association for Jewish Studies;
American Academy of Religion;
World Congress of Jewish Studies;
Medieval Academy of America;
American Academy of Jewish Research.
Fellowships/Honors:
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, spring 1996;
American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in Historical Studies, awarded to Through a Speculum That Shines, 1995;
National Jewish Book Award for Excellence in Scholarship, awarded to Through a Speculum That Shines, 1995.
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