Faculty
Nir Evron will give a talk at the Center of American West on January 29, 2025. Register by January 21 to attend Prof. Evron's talk: "Owen Wister's The Virginian: The Western Genre and the Shaping of the Modern Human-Animal
Samira Mehta has joined the advisory board of the Jewish of Color Collecting Project at the Smithsonian-affiliated Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Prof. Yonatan Malin is presenting a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies this week. The title of his paper is “The Musical Tapestry of Klezmer: A Computational Approach to Beregovski’s Jewish
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's latest publication, a chapter on "Reexamining the Transatlantic Scholarship on Jewish History” was just published in German Migrant Historians in North America: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship-
Professor Pegelow Kaplan was invited and is now serving on Yad Vashem (Jerusalem)'s selection committee for its International Book Prize for a monograph on the Shoah. Outside members are "renowned
Professor Mehta's latest piece about the new claim that Columbus was Jewish is published in Religion Dispatches.Click the hyperlink to read the article "New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But
Hilary Falb Kalisman's new article, "Apostles of knowledge: Feminine modernities and the travelling schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq," has been published in Gender and History.ABSTRACT: During the interwar era, nearly all
Nice Jewish men wanting to date non-Jewish women has been a trope of U.S. stage and screen for 100 years. Read Samira K. Mehta's latest piece in The Conversation, which is also featured in PBS News.https://www.pbs.org/
Prof. Hilary Falb Kalisman appeared on the Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone podcast. In her interview, “You are Welcome Here,” Falb Kalisman discusses teaching the history of Israel-Palestine.
