Faculty

The Program in Jewish Studies would like to thank three departing faculty members, Dr. Zilla Goodman , Professor Liora Halperin , and Professor Sasha Senderovich , for their invaluable service to the students and community of Jewish Studies and the university at large. We are excited to announce that Professors...

The Program in Jewish Studies at CU Boulder is now seeking a PhD or ABD who can serve as a Lecturer and teach two classes for the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder--one in Fall 2017 and one in Spring 2018. Duties include developing and teaching...

Professor David Shneer will give a public lecture on Monday, April 24 at the Colorado State Legislature in honor of Holocaust Commemoration Day 2017. In this lecture, Professor Shneer will talk about the Legislation's role in the Holocaust and what contemporary American can learn from it. Professor David Shneer is...

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Peak to Peak Lecture Series and the CU Carbondale Speakers Series present a talk with CU Boulder Professor Samuel Boyd titled " Magic, the Bible, and the Biblical Imagination in Jewish Mysticism ” Saturday, April 15, 5:30 to 7 p.m. , at the Carbondale Branch...

Dr. Brian Catlos was awarded a 2017 Award for Excellence in Leadership and Service by the Boulder Faculty Association for his work on Mediterranean Studies and the CU Mediterranean Studies Group at CU Boulder. This award honors excellence in teaching, service, and research to nominated CU Boulder faculty members. Congratulations,...

In November, David Shneer , Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History and Professor of History, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, and his musical collaborator Jewlia Eisenberg performed Art is My Weapon: The Radical Musical Life of Lin Jaldati at Temple University and as the DeVoy Visiting Artist-in-Residence at...

Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently published his first book, Moses Mendelssohn's Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2017). Sacks also published an article on Moses Mendelssohn, Franz Rosenzweig, and contemporary religious thought:...

Yonatan Malin , Associate Professor of Music Theory and Jewish Studies, presented a talk on “Understanding Jewish Music” in the First Friday series at Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder, CO. He introduced elements that contribute to the power of Jewish music with examples from traditional nusach, a modern niggun, and...

Nan Goodman , Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English, publishes "Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather’s The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation, ” in New Approaches to Puritan Studies , ed. Bryce Traister, Cambridge University Press.

We are thrilled to announce that Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, recently published his first book, Moses Mendelssohn's Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2016). Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is often described as the founder of modern Jewish thought and as a...