Publications

Liora Halperin, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, and Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies, publishes article "Majority and Minority Language in the Middle East: The Case of Hebrew in Mandate Palestine

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,

Brian Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, will be organizing and moderating three panels at this year's American Association of Italian Studies Conference in Boulder, CO, March 26-29, 2015, entitled "Italy in the Mediterranean I: Conflict," "

Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently published an essay on strategies for attracting students to humanities courses. Entitled “Expanding the Jewish Studies

The Middle East Studies Association has awarded the 2014 Albert Hourani Book Award to  Brian Catlos's Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, ca. 1050-1614 (Cambridge: 2014).At the awards ceremony held on November 23 in Washington DC

We are excited to announce that Liora Halperin, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, has recently published her first book, Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, andLanguage Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948.The promotion and

The recent book Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors by Brian Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, recently appeared in The New Yorker. Check out the New Yorker's Briefly Noted Book Review to read more.

Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies, recently published an op-ed in The New York Times entitled "Goodbye, Lenin?" (follow the link to read). The op-ed ran December 9,