New York University
The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

People


                
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                Robert Chazan
Professor
Major Interests: Medieval Jewish history
 

                
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                Hasia R. Diner
Professor
Major Interests: American Jewish history, American immigration history and women's history.
 

                
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                David Engel
Professor
Major Interests: Modern Jewish political history, History of the Jews in Eastern Europe, and the Holocaust.
 

                
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                Gennady Estraikh
Associate Professor
Major Interests: Yiddish intellectual history; Yiddish literature and sociolingustics
 

                
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                Yael S. Feldman
Professor
Major Interests: Hebrew and Comparative Literature: Bible to Modern; literary theory; gender and cultural studies; psychoanalytic criticism.
 

                
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                Daniel E. Fleming
Professor
Major Interests: Assyriology, Hebrew Bible interpretation and cultural history, ancient Syria, Emar, ancient religion, interplay of ancient Near Eastern societies.
 

                
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                Michah Gottlieb
Assistant Professor
Major Interests: Faith versus reason in the medieval and modern periods, the relationship between the German and Jewish Enlightenments, philosophical approaches to Biblical interpretation
 

                
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                Alfred L. Ivry
Professor Emeritus
Major Interests: Medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy, medieval philosophy, history of philosophy, modern Jewish thought.
 
Rosalie Kamelhar
Professor
 

                
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                Marion A. Kaplan
Professor
Major Interests: German-Jewish history.
 

                
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                Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Professor
Major Interests: Jewish cultural performance, aesthetics of everyday life, tourism, museums, and heritage.
 

                
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                Adina Marom
Language Lecturer
Major Interests: Hebrew language and grammar, as well as Modern Hebrew Literature.
 

                
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                Evan Rapport
Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow
Major Interests: Music and culture of Bukharian Jews, Iran, and Central Asia; recent Jewish migration to the United States; jazz, hip hop, and popular music; issues of race, ethnicity and representation
 

                
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                Ann Macy Roth
Clinical Associate Professor
Major Interests: Ancient Egyptian society and religion, particularly in the early periods; their expression in monumental architecture and art, including questions of gender, royalty, wealth, and rank; and the archaeology of cemeteries and the rituals and other activities that occurred there.
 

                
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                Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Professor
Major Interests: Rabbinic literature, ancient Judaism, Jewish law, Jewish ethics, history of religions.
 

                
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                Lawrence H. Schiffman
Professor
Major Interests: Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish religious, political, and social history in late antiquity; the history of Jewish law and Talmudic literature.
 

                
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                Mark S. Smith
Professor
Major Interests: History of Israelite and ancient Near Eastern religion; The representation of deities and divinity in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East from the Bronze Age to the Greco-Roman period; Narrative literature of the Hebrew Bible and West Semitic texts; Ugaritic literature and religion
 

                
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                Elliot R. Wolfson
Professor
Major Interests: Jewish mysticism and philosophy, gender construction and the history of religion, symbolism and myth, philosophical hermeneutics and the phenomenology of religious experience.
 

                
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                Rakefet J. Zalashik
Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow
Major Interests: Israeli identity formation, immigrant absorption and the integration of Holocaust Survivors into Israeli society, the relationship between mental health and gender.
 

                
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                Ronald W. Zweig
Professor
Major Interests: History of British mandate, state of Israel and modern Jewish history.