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 | Ruth Adler Ben-Yehuda
Judaic Studies, Program in
Research interests include Hebrew language pedagogy, language learning and technology, music in teaching of foreign languages, the history of the Hebrew language, which includes other Semitic languages, and, of course, Judeo-Arabic (especially of the Jews in Yemen). |  | Marcy Brink-Danan
Judaic Studies, Program in
Anthropology, Department of
A cultural anthropologist, Brink-Danan studies the role of language and symbol in the maintenance of social groups. With regional specialization in Southeastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, she recently conducted ethnographic research among Jews in Turkey. Brink-Danan's current work looks at how cosmopolitan subjects relate to local politics; as such, she is interested in comparing knowledge production across time and space. |  | David Chronley
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|  | Katharina Galor
Judaic Studies, Program in
Katharina Galor's research focuses on the archaeology of Palestine in the Roman-Byzantine period. |  | Michael Gottsegen
Judaic Studies, Program in
Michael Gottsegen studies the relation between religion and public/political life, mainly in the modern period, and how Jewish and non-Jewish thinkers conceive this relation in theological, philosophical and political terms. He also writes about ideas of collective and political responsibility, and about the role of religions in ongoing struggles for economic and social justice in a time of globalization. These themes come together in his current work on French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. |  | David C. Jacobson
Judaic Studies, Program in
The focus of my research has been on the relationship of modern Hebrew literature to the Jewish tradition. My more recent research has focused on the relationship of contemporary Israeli poetry to the Jewish tradition. I have also written on the portrayal of the Arab-Israeli conflict in contemporary Israeli fiction and on responses to the Arab-Israeli conflict in early Passover haggadot of the kibbutz movement. |  | Ross S. Kraemer
Religious Studies, Department of
Judaic Studies, Program in
Professor Kraemer's areas of expertise include early Christianity and other religions of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, including ancient Judaism, especially in the Diaspora. Her research focuses on aspects of women's religions in the Greco-Roman world, particularly Christian and Jewish women. In addition, she is also interested in questions of theory and method in the academic study of religion, and the relationship between religion and modern media. |  | Maud Mandel
History, Department of
Judaic Studies, Program in
Maud Mandel is an associate professor of history and Judaic studies. Mandel specializes in modern Jewish history and has focused particularly on the 20th-century French Jewish experience. She has written extensively on the impact of genocide on the reconstruction of community and on inter-ethnic relations. Her work has been marked by an on-going engagement with comparative historical methodology, and she has written extensively about Armenian and Muslim communities in France as well. |  | Saul Olyan
Judaic Studies, Program in
Religious Studies, Department of
Saul M. Olyan is the author of Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences (Cambridge University Press, 2008); Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions (Oxford University Press, 2004); Rites and Rank: Hierarchy in Biblical Representations of Cult (Princeton University Press, 2000); "A Thousand Thousands Served Him": Exegesis and the Naming of Angels in Ancient Judaism (Mohr/Siebeck, 1993); and Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel (Scholars, 1988). |  | Michael Satlow
Judaic Studies, Program in
Religious Studies, Department of
Professor Michael L. Satlow specializes in Early Judaism and has written extensively on issues of gender, sexuality, and marriage among Jews in antiquity, as well as on the Dead Sea scrolls, Jewish theology, methodology in Religious Studies, and the social history of Jews during the rabbinic period. He recently finished a book entitled "Creating Judaism" and is now examining Jewish piety in antiquity and developing an internet accessible database of inscriptions from Israel/Palestine. |
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