People

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    Ari Ariel

    Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: Middle Eastern Jewish Studies, Food and Culture of the Middle East

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    Ilona Ben-Moshe

    Language Lecturer of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: SLA curriculum design and implementation; Language education policies and planning; Student and program evaluation; Incorporating culture studies in language teaching.

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    Robert Chazan

    Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: Medieval Jewish History; the Church and the Jews

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    Hasia R. Diner

    Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and History

    Research Interest: American Jewish history, American immigration history and women's history

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    David Engel

    Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: Modern Jewish political history; History of the Jews in Eastern Europe; the Holocaust

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    Gennady Estraikh

    Clinical Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: Jewish intellectual history in the 19th and 20th centuries with an accent on Yiddish literary milieus; Publishing and civil-society organizations

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    Yael S. Feldman

    Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: Hebrew and Comparative Literature and History of Ideas, Bible to Modern; literary theory; gender and cultural studies; psychoanalytic criticism; secularism and nationalism

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    Daniel E. Fleming

    Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: 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 of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: Modern Jewish Thought and Philosophy

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    Alfred L. Ivry

    Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

    Research Interest: Medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy, medieval philosophy, history of philosophy, modern Jewish thought.

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    Rosalie Kamelhar

    Senior Language Lecturer of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: Hebrew Language

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    Marion A. Kaplan

    Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: German-Jewish History

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    Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

    Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: Jewish cultural performance, aesthetics of everyday life, tourism, museums, and heritage.

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    Adina Marom

    Senior Language Lecturer of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: Modern Hebrew Language and Culture; Linguistics; Modern Hebrew Literature

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    Ann Macy Roth

    Clinical Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Art History

    Research Interest: Ancient Egyptian society and religion, particularly in the early periods; gender, royalty, wealth, and rank as expressed in architecture and art; archaeology of cemeteries

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    Jeffrey L. Rubenstein

    Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: Rabbinic stories; Talmud; Jewish law; Jewish liturgy; ethics; Second Temple literature

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    Mark S. Smith

    Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: Bible; Israelite religion and culture; Ugaritic literature and religion; Hebrew grammar; Dead Sea Scrolls

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    Elliot R. Wolfson

    Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: 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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    Ronald W. Zweig

    Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

    Research Interest: History of British mandate, state of Israel and modern Jewish history