Ph.D. Candidates in Israel StudiesRachel Berry
Rachel Berry
grew up in Seattle, Washington and graduated from the University of Michigan
with a double major in History and Judaic Studies (2006). Her experience includes interning at the
Photographic History Division of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American
History and in the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
She entered the joint program in Hebrew and Judaic Studies and History
with a focus on Israel Studies in Fall 2006.
Her interests include the social-cultural history of the transition to
and early years of the state of Israel. She is a Schusterman Israel Scholar
Award recipient (2007-present). Clemence Boulouque
Clemence Boulouque was born
in Paris and graduated from Sciences Po (Institute of Political Sciences) and
the ESSEC Business School. While spending a few years as a young professional
in marketing and recruiting companies, she pursued a BA in Art History and a
DEA (MA equivalent) in Literature. Not utterly convinced of the relevance of a
business career for herself, she applied for and received a Fulbright Scholarship
in 2001 to pursue a MA in International Affairs at Columbia University where
she focused on the Middle East. Fulfilling a Fulbright Scholarship obligation to
return to her home country for several years, Ms. Boulouque returned to France
and became a print (Le Figaro) and broadcast (France Culture) journalist – she
mostly reviewed foreign fiction and non-fiction books on religion and the
Middle East and covered Israeli literature extensively. During her time in
France, Clemence also published seven books, both fiction and non-fiction; one
of them is a book-length interview with Amos Oz. She is interested in issues at
the intersection of literature and history and she plans to study the role of
Jewish writers as Orientalists at the turn of the twentieth century - and
specifically their depiction of the Middle-East and of late-Ottoman Palestine
for the European audience. Hillel Gruenberg
Hillel Gruenberg was born and raised in
New Rochelle, a close suburb of New York City. Hillel received a BA from the
State University of New York in Binghamton, where he majored in History and
Philosophy, Politics and Law (PPL) with a concentration in Middle East and
North African Studies. Hillel spent his first year of
university study at the Hebrew University while also working in irrigation on a
Kibbutz in southwestern Israel. Additionally, he was an Intern in the
Israeli Knesset the summer prior to completing his BA. The year following
his graduation from SUNY Binghamton, Hillel enrolled as a non-degree graduate
student at the Hebrew University in preparation for his doctoral degree studies
program. Currently Hillel is a PhD candidate in the Joint PhD Program in
Hebrew & Judaic Studies and History at New York University, specializing in
Israeli/Zionist Political History. His chief interests include the
encounter between Zionism and Liberalism in practice and theory as well as the
adaptation of Zionist ideologies to the Israeli political sphere. Donna Herzog
Shira Klein
Shira Klein
is a 3rd-year PhD candidate in the Dept. of History and in the Dept. of Hebrew
and Judaic Studies. She is interested in modern transnational history. She
focuses on the history of 20th-century Jewish migration across Europe, the
Americas, and Israel. Yigal Nizri
Dan Tsahor
Shayna Weiss
Shayna Weiss is from Jacksonville, Florida.
In 2007, she graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a double
major in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and International and Global Studies.
At Brandeis, she received highest honors for her thesis on religious women in
the Israeli Defense Forces. She is a 2008 graduate of the Drisha Beit Midrash
Program, in which she spent the year studying Talmud and other Jewish texts
full time. During her time at the Taub Center, Shayna plans to focus on
religion in contemporary Israeli society. She is especially interested in
issues of gender and how religion is portrayed in Israeli media. Amy Weiss
Amy Weiss, a
native of New Providence, New Jersey, graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum
laude with a degree in Jewish Studies and sociology from Rutgers College,
Rutgers University in 2005. As a student
in both the Henry Rutgers Scholars Program and the Sociology Honors Program,
she wrote her senior thesis on the religious and educational influences which
impact American Jews’ decisions to make aliyah.
She received her Master’s Degree in Jewish Studies from the Jewish
Theological Seminary in 2007. Amy is
currently enrolled in the joint PhD program in Hebrew & Judaic Studies and
History at NYU. She intends to focus her
research on the ways in which American ethnic groups influenced US public and
foreign policy regarding Israel in the post-war period. |
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