Faculty

Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and Jewish Studies, presented a paper on how contemporary Soviet-born American Jewish writers respond to the idea of "the Soviet Jew" that emerged in the West during the Cold War, at the annual conference of the Association of Slavic, East European, and...

David Shneer , Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History and Professor of History, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies , committed to using his sabbatical to stretch his scholarly self in new directions. To that end, this fall, he presented his book, Lin Jaldati: Trümmerfrau der Seele , in...

Liora Halperin , Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, published an article, " A Murder in the Grove: Conceptions of Justice in an Early Zionist Colony " in the Winter 2015 issue of the Journal of Social History. Prof. Halperin gave an invited talk at Colorado College on December...

Lucy Chester , Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, presented her research at the Center on American and Global Security at Indiana University in October. Entitled, "'The Eyes of Islam are Watching': Transcolonial Activism in India and Mandate Palestine," her talk analyzed the many intersections between the history of...

Sam Boyd , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, will be giving a presentatation of his work-in-progress "A Brief History of the Phrase 'King of Kings': Political, Religious, and Philological Considerations." Dr. Boyd's talk will take place on Monday, September 28 from 11:30AM-12:45PM in UMC 425. Pre-registration is...

Sam Boyd , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, received a 2016 Society for Biblical Literature Regional Scholars award. Dr. Boyd was nominated for the award by the Rocky Mountains-Great Plains regional selection committee of the SBL on the basis of his presentation “The Flood and the Problem...

David Shneer , Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History and Professor of History, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, had a busy summer of globetrotting. He served as scholar-in-residence for the Helix Project that took students to Belarus, Lithuania, and Latvia. Next year, he plans to open a competition...

It is with great pleasure that I write to welcome students, faculty, community members, and friends near and far to a new academic year in the Program in Jewish Studies. As the new Director of PJS, I wish to extend to you the kind of warm welcome and support I...

Associate Professor and Associate Graduate Chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Davide Stimilli has recently published the article “L’énigme de Warburg,” on the German-Jewish art and cultural historian Aby Warburg, in the Revue Française de Psychanalyse 79 (2015): 1100-1114. He has also reviewed the book...

Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies, published an article “Soviet Jews, Re-Imagined: Émigré Anglophone Writers from the USSR,” in The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). His translation — a collaboration with Harriet Murav (University of Illinois) — of David Bergelson's Yiddish-language...