2010 Faculty e-Newsletter

Our faculty are leaders in their fields. We celebrate their knowledge and commitment to Jewish education with this list of accomplishments, spanning 2008–2010:


Prizes/Awards

Dr. Eitan Fishbane was awarded the prestigious and highly selective Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies in 2010 and was also awarded a grant from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation.

Dr. Walter Herzberg was honored as the first recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching in The Rabbinical School in March 2008.

Dr. Anne Lapidus Lerner received the 2010 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching Rabbinical Students from the Rabbinical School Student Organization.

Dr. Vivian Mann became an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research.

Dr. Edna Nahshon received a Notable Selection honor in the field of Jews and the Arts from the Association for Jewish Studies for her book From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill's Jewish Plays. The committee wrote, "This critical edition of three important plays by this prolific Anglo-Jewish writer is suitably weighty as almost to constitute a monograph on Zangwill with the plays as an accompaniment."

Dr. David Roskies received both the 2009 Abraham and Eve Trapunski Award in Yiddish Literature and a Canadian Jewish Book Award, for Yiddishlands: A Memoir.

Dr. Benjamin Sommer received the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in 2010 from the American Academy of Religion (AAR) for The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel. The AAR grants one award annually in each of four categories; Bodies of God received the award in Textual Studies for the best book in religious studies focusing on textual analysis published in 2009. For this book, Dr. Sommer also received the 2009 Jordan Schnitzer Award from the Association for Jewish Studies for the best book published in the areas of Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, or Archaeology in the years 2006–2009.

View the video of Dr. Sommer's acceptance speech from the Jordan Schnitzer Award event.

Dr. Jack Wertheimer was a finalist for a 2008 National Jewish Book Award in the field of Jewish Education for his book, Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice.

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Publications

Dr. Beth Berkowitz, associate professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, has published the following:

Articles
  • Review of Torah Revealed, Torah Fulfilled: Scriptural Laws in Formative Judaism and Earliest Christianity, by Jacob Neusner, Bruce D. Chilton, and Baruch A. Levine. Catholic Biblical Quarterly, forthcoming.

  • "Allegory and Ambiguity: Jewish Identity in Philo's De Congressu," Journal of Jewish Studies 61, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 1–17.

  • "Reconsidering the Book and the Sword: A Rhetoric of Passivity in Rabbinic Hermeneutics," Biblical Interpretation 17, nos. 1–2 (2009): 147–176.

  • "The Limits of 'Their Laws': Ancient Rabbinic Controversies about Jewishness (and Non-Jewishness)," Jewish Quarterly Review 99, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 121–157.

Dr. Eitan Fishbane, assistant professor in the Department of Jewish Thought, has published the following:

Books

Articles

  • "Representation and the Boundaries of Realism: Reading the Fantastic in Zoharic Fiction," Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 23 = The Proceedings of the Monash University, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Zohar Symposium, Held in Prato Italy, July 13–15, 2009 (2010).

  • "The Scent of the Rose: Drama, Fiction, and Narrative Form in the Zohar," Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 29, no. 3 (2009): 324–361.

  • "A Chariot for the Shekhinah: Identity and the Ideal Life in Sixteenth Century Kabbalah," Journal of Religious Ethics 37, no. 3 (2009): 385–418.

  • "The Speech of Being, the Voice of God: Phonetic Mysticism in the Kabbalah of Asher ben David and his Contemporaries," Jewish Quarterly Review 98, no. 4 (2008): 485–521.

Dr. Shamma Friedman, the Benjamin and Minna Reeves Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, has published the following:

Books

  • Investigating the Sugya, Variant Readings, and Aggada. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 2010.

  • Editor, "Talmud Ha-Igud," in Aaron Amit, BT Pesahim Chapter IV. Jerusalem: The Society for the Interpretation of the Talmud, 2009.

Articles

  • "A Methodological Investigation of the Development of Two Mishnayot (Shevuot 4, 6; 5, 4)" (Hebrew). In Tiferet LeYisrael, Jubilee Volume in Honor of Israel Francus, edited by Joel Roth, Menahem Schmelzer, and Yaacov Francus, 51–61. New York, 2010.

  • "The Jewish Bill of Divorce—from Massada Onwards." In Halakhah in Light of Epigraphy, 176–183. Göttingen, Ger.: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010.

  • "The Rambam and the Talmud: Debate over Maimonides' Reservations regarding the Study of Talmud," Diné Israel 26–27 (2009–2020): 221–239. Festschrift for Mordechai Akiva Friedman

Dr. Stephen Garfinkel, associate provost and assistant professor of Bible, will be publishing the following:

  • "Burning Bush (Jewish tradition reception)." In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. DeGruyter, forthcoming.

  • "Ecclesiastes." In The [Oxford] Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Rabbi Michael Greenbaum, assistant professor of Jewish Education, published an essay titled "Ramah: A Paradigm for Conservative Jews," in Ramah at 60: Impact and Innovation, edited by Mitchell Cohen and Jeffrey S. Kress.

Rabbi Robert Harris, associate professor of Bible has published the following:

"The Reception of Ezekiel Among Twelfth-Century Northern French Rabbinic Exegetes." After Ezekiel, London, England: Pindar Press, forthcoming.

"Jewish Biblical Exegesis in the Middle Ages: From Its Beginnings Through the Twelfth Century." The New Cambridge History of the Bible, volume 2, edited by Richard Marsden and Ann Matter, London, England: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

"Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis." A History of Biblical Interpretation. Volume 2: 141–171. Edited by Alan Hauser and Duane F. Watson. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009.

"Twelfth-Century Biblical Exegetes and the Invention of Literature." Commentaria 2 (2009): 311–29.

"Rashi and the 'Messianic' Psalms." Birkat Shalom: Studies in the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern Literature, and Postbiblical Judaism Presented to Shalom M. Paul on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, edited by Chaim Cohen, Yictor Avigdor Hurowitz, Avi Hurvitz, Yochanan Muffs, Baruch J. Schwartz, and Jeffery H. Tigay, 845–62. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2008.



Dr. Carol K. Ingall, the Dr. Bernard Heller Professor of Jewish Education, has published the following:

Book

Article

  • "Fostering a Community of Teachers," Ha'Yidion, Fall 2010.

Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, has published the following articles:

  • "The Sabbath as a Sanctuary in Space." In Tiferet Leyisrael: Jubilee Volume in Honor of Israel Francus, edited by Joel Roth, Menahem Schmelzer, and Yaacov Francus, 79–91. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 2010.

  • "Fictions and Formulations: The Talmud and the Construction of Jewish Identity." In Literary Construction of Identity in the Ancient World, edited by Hanna Liss and Manfred Oeming, 235–244. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2010.

  • "Food, Eating, and Meals." In The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine, edited by Catherine Hezser, 403–419. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

  • "At Home in the World (A Response to Jenna Weissman Joselit)." In Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity, edited by Simon J. Bronner, 295–300. Oxford, England and Portland, Oregon: Littman, 2010.

  • "Identität und Abgrenzung: Über jüdische Speisevorschriften," in Koscher & Co. (exhibition catalog), 42–55. Berlin: Jüdisches Museum Berlin, 2009.



Dr. Jeffrey Kress, assistant professor of Jewish Education, has published the following:

Book

Articles

  • "Reflection and Connections: The Other Side of Integration." Journal of Jewish Education 76 (2010): 164–188.

  • With Charme, S., Horowitz, B., and Hyman, T. "Jewish identities in action: An exploration of models, metaphors, and methods." Journal of Jewish Education 74 (2008): 115–143.

  • With Elias, M. J. "Distancing in encompassing education settings: Lessons from Jewish education." Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 29 (2008): 337–344.

Dr. Nitza Krohn, senior lecturer in Hebrew language at JTS, has published the following:

  • Review of Routledge Introductory Course in Modern Hebrew. (Etzion, forthcoming), Journal of Higher Hebrew Education, forthcoming.

  • "The Hebrew Language Needs of Future Conservative Rabbis: A Needs Analysis." Journal of Jewish Education 75 (2009): 258–284.

Dr. Marjorie Lehman, assistant professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, has published the following:

Books

  • The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib's Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, forthcoming.

Articles

  • "Making a Case for Rabbinic Pedagogy." In The International Handbook of Jewish Education, edited by Lisa Grant and Alex Pomson. New York: Springer, forthcoming.

  • "Levisohn's Orientations: A Response from the Classroom." Journal of Jewish Education 76 (2010): 117–119.

  • "Reimagining Home, Rethinking Sukkah: Rabbinic Discourse and its Contemporary Implications." In Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity, edited by Simon J. Bronner. Oxford: Littman, 2009.

  • "Reenacting Ancient Pedagogy in the Classroom." Spotlight on Theological Education: American Academy of Religion 2, no. 1 (2008): 3.

Dr. Anne Lapidus Lerner, director of the Jewish Feminist Research Group and assistant professor of Jewish Literature, has published the following:

  • "Back to the Beginning: An Exploration of the Roles Played by Eve and the Garden of Eden in Modern Poetry by Jewish Women." Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues 19 (Spring 5770/2010): 9–31.

  • "Fruitful Weaving: Eve and Penelope as Icons in the Poetry of Linda Pastan." In Gender and Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Paula Hyman, edited by Deborah Dash Moore and Marion Kaplan, 314–331. Indiana University Press, 2010.

  • "Pacing Change: The Impact of Feminism on Conservative Synagogues." In New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future, edited by Elyse Goldstein, 175–185. Woodstock, VT, 2009.

Dr. Vivian Mann, director of the Master's Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture, has published the following articles:

  • "A Court Jew's Silver Cup." Metropolitan Museum Journal 43 (2008): 131–40.

  • "Images of Jud Süss Oppenheimer, an Early Modern Jew." Beyond the Yellow Badge: Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism and European Visual Culture before 1800, edited by Mitchell Merback, 257–74. Leiden, 2008.

  • Review of Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain. Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday by Katrin Kogman-Appel. Speculum 83, no. 1 (2008): 209–10.

  • "East European Ceremonial Art." The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, edited by Gershon D. Hundert, 229–302. New Haven, 2008.

  • Uneasy Communion: Jews, Christians and Altarpieces in Medieval Spain [catalogue of exhibition curated at MOBIA, New York]. London, 2010. (Author and Editor)

  • "Art" and "Carpets." Encyclopedia of the Jews in the Islamic World, edited by Norman Stillman. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

Dr. Jonathan Milgram, assistant professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, has published the following:

  • "Methodological Musings on the Study of Kelalei Pesak ilkheta ke-Rav be-Issurei ve-khi-Shemuel be-Dinei'," Journal of Jewish Studies 61, no. 2 (2010): 278–290.

  • "Iyun u-vikoret be-Shitat Francus: Al Hagdarat ha-Munach 'Pagum li-Kehunah' ba-Talmud ha-Bavli ve-ha-Gormim le-Machloket Rishonim ba-Nose." In Tiferet Le-Yisrael: Jubilee Volume in Honor of Israel Francus, edited by Joel Roth, Menahem Schmelzer, and Yaacov Francus, 35–41. New York and Jerusalem: JTS Publications.

  • "Dugmah Mi-perush Bikorti le-perek Yesh Bekhor (perek chet de-masechet Bekhorot): Sugyat 'Met Ha-ben be-tokh sheloshim,' Bekhorot 49a." In The Wisdom of Batsheva: Dr. Beth Samuels Memorial Volume, edited by Barry Wimpfheimer, 21–45. Hoboken: Ktav Publishing, 2009.


Dr. Alan Mittleman, professor of Jewish Philosophy, has published Hope in a Democratic Age: Philosophy, Religion, and Political Theory. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Dr. Edna Nahshon, professor of Hebrew, has published the following:

Books and Catalogs

Articles, Essays, and Chapters in Books

  • "Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context" for Brill, Publishers, forthcoming.

  • "Anne Frank's Diary from Page to Stage." In Mediating Anne Frank, edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblatt and Jeffrey Shandler. Indiana University Press, forthcoming.

  • "What Is Jewish Theatre?" Jewish Theatre: A Global View. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2009.

  • "Philosemitism on the London Stage: Sydney Grundy's An Old Jew (1894)" in Jewish Theatre: A Global View. 2009.

  • "Shylock and His Daughter at the Yiddish Art Theatre." In Being Shylock (exhibition catalog). Vienna: The Jewish Museum, 2009.

  • "Maurice Schwartz Presents: The Dybbuk (1921)" (in Hebrew). Al Na Tegarshuni (=Do Not Expel Me): A Collection of Essays on S. An-ski's The Dybbuk, edited by Shimon Levy and Dorit Yerushalmi. Assaph: Tel Aviv University, 2009.

  • Review of The Moscow Yiddish Theatre, by Benjamin Harshav. The Jewish Quarterly Winter 2008.

  • "Stardust on Second Avenue" (in Hebrew). Davka (a periodical published by Beit Shalom Aleichem and Tel Aviv University) Fall 2008.

  • "Jews and Shoes." Jews and Shoes. Oxford: Berg, 2008.

  • "Talking Back to Shakespeare in Yiddish: Shylock and His Daughter [1947]" (in Hebrew). Zmanim (a periodical published by Tel Aviv University, The Open University, Mercaz Zalman Shazar and the Historical Society of Israel) 99.

 





Dr. David Roskies, Sol and Evelyn Henkind Professor of Yiddish Literature, has published the following:

Books

  • Мост желания: Утраченное искусство идишского рассказа. Moscow: Текст: Книжники, 2010. [Russian translation of A Bridge of Longing.]

  • Bergelson, David. The End of Everything: A Novel,. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. (Editor)

Articles

  • "Dividing the Ruins: Communal Memory in Yiddish and Hebrew." In Challenging the Myth of Silence, edited by David Cesarani and Eric J. Sundquist. London: Routledge, forthcoming.

  • "A Story that Must Be Told." In The Student Struggle Against the Holocaust, edited by Rafael Medoff and David Golinkin, 117–20. Jerusalem: David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, 2010.

  • "The Anthological Method and the 'Posen Method.'" In The Anthological Imagination: Two Volume Editors Reflect on the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, edited by James E. Young, 10–19. Switzerland: The Posen Foundation, 2009.

  • "My Encounters with Abraham Joshua Heschel." In Abraham Joshua Heschel: Philosophy, theology and interreligious dialogue, edited by Stanislaw Krajewski and Adam Lipszyc, 22–26. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009

  • Review of The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903–1917 by Barry Trachtenberg. Studies in Contemporary Jewry 25 (2010): 201–3.



Rabbi Joel Roth, Louis Finkelstein Professor of Talmud and Jewish Law, has published the following:

  • "Musings Toward a Personal Theology of Revelation." In Edut BeYhosef: Rabbi Dr. Yosef Green Festschrift, Jerusalem: 2008.

  • "Gufei Torah: The Limit to Halakhic Pluralism." In Tiferet Le-Yisrael: Jubilee Volume in Honor of Israel Francus, edited by Joel Roth, Menahem Schmelzer, and Yaacov Francus. New York and Jerusalem: JTS Publications.

Dr. Raymond Scheindlin, professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature, had his most recent book, The Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage, published by Oxford University Press in 2008.

Dr. Ismar Schorsch, chancellor emeritus and Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish History, has published the following:

  • "Wives and Wissenschaft: The Domestic Seedbed of Critical Scholarship." In Festschrift in Honor of Paula Hyman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.

  • "Converging Cognates: The Intersection of Jewish and Islamic Studies in Nineteenth Century Germany." Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, 2010.

Dr. Shuly Schwartz, Irving Lehrman Research Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Walter and Sarah Schlesinger Dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, has published the following:

  • "Conservative Judaism." In Encyclopedia of Religion in America, edited by Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams, 1114–1120. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010.

  • "Henrietta Szold: The Making of an Icon." In New Essays in American Jewish History: Commemorating the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Founding of the American Jewish Archives, edited by Pamela S. Nadell, Jonathan D. Sarna and Lance J. Sussman, 455–66. Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 2010.

  • "Rebecca Aronson Brickner (1894–1988), Benderly Boy?" In The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education 1910–1965, edited by Carol K. Ingall, 63–74. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2010.

  • "The Three Pillars of Ramah: Then and Now," Ramah at 60: Impact and Innovation (New York: National Ramah Commission, 2010), 93–104.

  • "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Hebraist: The Life and Dreams of Aron Shimon Shpall." American Jewish Archives 61 (2009): 127–44.



Dr. Benjamin Sommer, professor of Bible, has published the following:

Book

Articles, Essays, and Chapters in Books

  • "God," "God, Names of," "Idolatry," and "Monotheism." The Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion, edited by Adele Berlin. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

  • "Biblical Theology. II. Judaism." The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, volume 3, edited by Hans-Josef Klauck, Bernard McGinn, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, and Eric Ziolkowski. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, forthcoming.

  • "Habakkuk, Book of," "Hosea, Book of," "Isaiah, Book of," Micah, Book of," and "Obadiah, Book of." The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, edited by Judith Baskin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

  • "Isaiah, Book of." The Dictionary of Early Judaism, edited by John J. Collins and Daniel Harlow. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, forthcoming.

  • "Dating Pentateuchal Texts and the Perils of Pseudo-Historicism." The Pentateuch: International Perspectives on Current Research, edited by Thomas Dozeman, Konrad Schmid, and Baruch Schwartz. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming.

  • "A Little Higher than Angels: Psalm 29 and the Genre of Heavenly Praise." Festschrift for Adele Berl, edited by Maxine Grossman. College Park, MD: University Press of Maryland, forthcoming.

  • "Hedgehog and Fox: Anderson as Historian and Philologist." Harvard Theological Review 103 (2010): 373–82.

  • "A Commentary on Psalm 24." Gazing on the Deep: Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Jewish Studies in Honor of Tzvi Abusch, edited by Jeffrey Stackert, Barbara Nevling Porter, and David P. Wright, 495–516. Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press, 2010.

  • "Two Introductions to Scripture: James Kugel and the Possibility of Biblical Theology." Jewish Quarterly Review 100 (2010): 153–82.

  • "Teologia biblica: Un approccio ebraico alla lettura teologica delle Scritture." Dizionario del sapere storico-religioso del Novecento, volume 2, edited by Alberto Melloni, 1422–1430. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2010.

  • "The Religion of Torah." Jewish Theology in Our Time: A New Generation Explores the Foundations and Future of Jewish Belief, edited by Elliot Cosgrove, 71–78. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2010.

  • "Dialogical Biblical Theology: A Jewish Approach to Reading Scripture Theologically." Biblical Theology: Introducing the Conversation, edited by Leo Perdue. Library of Biblical Theology, volume 1, 1–53, 265–285. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009.

  • "Is It Good for the Jews? Ambiguity and the Rhetoric of Turning in Isaiah." Birkat Shalom: Studies in the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern Literature, and Postbiblical Judaism Presented to Shalom M. Paul on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, edited by Chaim Cohen, Avigdor Hurvitz, Yochanan Muffs, Baruch Schwartz, and Jeffrey Tigay, 321–45. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2008.





Dr. Boaz Tarsi, associate professor of Music, has published the following:

  • "The Role of Music in the Structure, Meaning, and Perception of the Ashkenazi Liturgical Experience: The Kaddish as a Case Study." Essays in Jewish Liturgy in Honor of Menahem Schmelzer, edited by Debra Reed-Blank. Boston: Brill, forthcoming.

  • "Concert Aria for Soprano Voice and Orchestra." 2009. Masterworks of the Twenty-First Century, The Kiev Philharmonic conducted by Robert Winston with soprano Sharla Nafziger. ERM Media, Distributed by Naxos.

  • "Music Theory as an Expression of Musical and Extramusical Views Reflected in Leib Glantz's Liturgical Settings." Leib Glantz—The Man Who Spoke To God, edited by Jerry Glantz. Tel Aviv: The Tel Aviv Institute for Jewish Liturgical Music, 2009.

  • "On a Particular Case of Tonal, Modal, and Motivic Components in Sources for Liturgical Music of East and West European Origins." Iggud: Selected Essays in Jewish Music, 2008.

Dr. Burton L. Visotzky, Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies and director of the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies of JTS, has published the following:

Articles and Dictionary Entries

  • "In Hoc Signum Vincent: A Midrashist Replies." Signifying on Scriptures, edited by Vincent Wimbush, 247–255. Rutgers University Press, 2008.

  • "Goys 'Я'n't Us: Rabbinic Anti-Gentile Polemic in Yerushalmi Berachot 9:1 within the Social and Religious Context of Late-Antique Christian Rome." Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity, edited by Eduard Iricinschi and Holger Zellentin, 299-313. Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2008.

  • "Akiva, Rabbi" (I 94-95), "Baba Bathra" (I 375), "Baba Metzi'a" (I 375), "Baba Qama" (I 375), "Babylonian Judaism" (I 380), "Erubin" (II 289), "Gemara" (II 531-532), "Haggadah" (II 715), "Halakhah" (II 720), "Hillel the Elder, House of Hillel" (II 826), "Ishmael, Rabbi" (III 95), "Jamnia, Council of" (III 197-98), "Mekilta" (IV 28), "Midrash" (IV 81-84), "Mishnah" (IV 110-111), "Rabbi/Rabboni" (IV 718), "Rabbinic Interpretation" (IV 718-720), "Rabbinic Literature" (IV 720-723), "Sayings of the Fathers" (V 123), "Shammai" (V 213), "Sifra/Sifre" (V 250), "Talmud" (V 463-468), "Talmud, Jerusalem" (V 468), "Tanna, Tannaim" (V 470), "Yohanan ben Zakkai" (V 947). The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, 5 vols. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006-2009.

  • "A Rabbi, The Jewish Theological Seminary, and Jewish-Muslim Engagement: A Field Report." Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue I (2009): 28–34.

  • "Will and Grace: Aspects of Judaising in Pelagianism in Light of Rabbinic and Patristic Exegeses of Genesis." The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity, edited by Grypeou, Emmanouela and Spurling, Helen, 43–62. Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, volume 18. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

  • "So why did the Sages say, 'Until Midnight'? On M. Berakhot 1:1." Tiferet Leyisrael: Jubilee Volume in Honor of Israel Francus, edited by J. Roth, M. Schmelzer, and Y. Francus, 181–188. New York: JTS Press, 2010.

Review Articles and Reviews

  • "Leaning Literary, Reading Rabbinics." Prooftexts 28 (2008): 85–99.

  • Review of Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries, edited by Skarsaune and Hvalvik. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 70 (2008): 427–28.

  • Review of Stories of Joseph: Narrative Migrations Between Judaism and Islam, by Mark S. Bernstein. BIOGRAPHY 31 (2008): 295–97.

  • Review of The Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus, and the Death, Burial, and Translation of Moses in Judaic Tradition by Roger David Aus. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 72 (2010): 134–35.



Dr. Jack Wertheimer, the Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of American Jewish History, has published the following:

Books

Reports and Articles

  • Generation of Change: How Leaders in Their Twenties and Thirties Are Reshaping American Jewish Life (New York: Avi Chai Foundation, September 2010).

  • With Serene Victor, "Between Entrepreneurship and Jewish Mission: The Making of a Chabad Hebrew School" and "Putting the School Back into the Supplementary Jewish High School." Learning and Community, edited by Jack Wertheimer. 2009.

  • Schools That Work: What We Can Learn from Good Jewish Supplementary Schools. (New York: The Avi Chai Foundation, March 2009).

  • "American Jews and Israel: A Sixty Year Retrospective." American Jewish Year Book, 2008.

  • A Census of Jewish Supplementary Schools in the United States, 2006–007. (New York: Avi Chai Foundation, 2008).

  • "The Current Moment in Jewish Education: An Historian's View." What Do We Now Know About Jewish Education?, edited by Paul Flexner and Roberta Goodman. Torah Aura Books, 2008.

Shorter Articles

  • "Why Study Young Jewish Leaders?" Jewcy, October 28, 2010.

  • "America and the Jews: The Same, or Different?" Jewish Ideas Daily, October 13, 2010.

  • "Go Out and See What the People Are Doing?" Contemporary Jewry, October 2010.

  • "The Future of Jewish Education" and "The Fragmentation of American Jewry and Its Leadership." In American Jewry's Comfort Level, edited by Manfred Gerstenfeld and Steven Bayme. Jerusalem: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the American Jewish Committee, 2010.

  • "Torah and Service," "Putting the School Back in Hebrew School," "Acquiring Hebrew the Natural Way," "Adult Education, Chabad-Style," "Uniting the Jewish People," "A Minyan Grows in Washington, D.C.," and "Betting on Jewish Literacy." Vital Signs series, Jewish Ideas Daily, February 8–May 13, 2010.

  • "The High Cost of Jewish Living," Commentary, March 2010.

  • "The Future of Jewish Education," Jewish Center for Public Affairs, Institute for Global Affairs. No. 52, Jan. 15, 2010.

  • With Adam Bronfman, "Straight-Talk About Assimilation: An Exchange," Forward, Oct. 30, 2009.

  • "Time for Straight-Talk about Assimilation," Forward, October 2, 2009.

  • "The Truth about American Jews and Israel," Commentary, June 2009.

  • "What Does Reform Judaism Stand For?" Commentary, June 2008.

  • "Saving American Jewry: Demography, Politics and Destiny." The Jewish Condition: Challenges and Responses—1938–2008, edited by William B. Helmreich, Mark Rosenblum, and David Schimel. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 2008.



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Graduate School Doctoral Student Achievements

Graduating doctoral students from The Graduate School are listed in alphabetical order. Included here are their academic concentrations, anticipated graduation dates, and the subjects of their dissertations.

Joshua Cahan: Talmud and Rabbinics, spring 2011, "Sources and Innovation: How the Rabbis' Relationship to Received Teachings Shaped Their Legal Thinking"

Geoff Claussen: Jewish Thought, spring 2011, "Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv: The Moral Vision of a Nineteenth Century Musar Master"

  • Appointed Visiting Instructor in Jewish Studies and Religion, Oberlin College
  • Nominated to the Board of the Society of Jewish Ethics
  • Awarded 2010–2011 Targum Shlishi Foundation Dissertation Grant
  • Awarded 2010–2011 Tikvah Fund Dissertation Grant
  • Awarded 2010–2011 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Scholarship

Publications:

  • "Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv on Love and Empathy," Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, vol. 30, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2010), pp. 151–169.
  • "The American Jewish Revival of Musar," The Hedgehog Review, vol. 12, no. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 63–72.
  • "God and Suffering in Heschel's Torah Min Ha-Shamayim," Conservative Judaism, (2009) vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 16–41.

Rabbi Ryan Dulkin: Midrash and Scriptural Interpretation, spring 2011, "An Investigation of the 'Rabbinic Adam' in the Major Corpora of the Classical Rabbinical Sources"

Barat Ellman: Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, spring 2011, "Memory and Religious Praxis: The Meaning and Function of Memory in Deuteronomic and Priestly Religion"

David Hoffman: Talmud and Rabbinics, fall 2010 (Graduated), Sharing God's Glory: Rabbinic Uses of Kavod

Michael Pitkowsky: Talmud and Rabbinics, spring 2011, "The Uses of Mipenei Darchei Shalom and Meshum Eivah in Talmudic Literature"

Michael Rosenberg: Talmud and Rabbinics, spring 2011, "I am Impure/I am Forbidden: Obfuscation of Man and Ritual Purity in the Laws of Niddah"

Marcus (Mordy) Schwartz: Talmud and Rabbinics, spring 2011, "The Origins of Bavli Rosh HaShanah"

Loren Spielman: Ancient Judaism, fall 2010 (Graduated), Jewish Attitudes Toward Roman Spectacle Entertainment from the Herodian Period Through the Muslim Conquest

  • Named Assistant Professor at Portland State University

Itay Zutra: Jewish Literature, spring 2011, "In Zikh (1930–1940): Yiddish Modernism in Search of Jewish Self-Consciousness"

  • Awarded 2008–2009 Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Additional doctoral students and their accomplishments:

  • Beverly Bailis: 2010–2011 AAUW Dissertation Fellowship

  • Stefanie Michele Halpern, publication: "Kate Bateman: Sanitizing the Beautiful Jewess," The Drama Review, December 2010 / January 2011 (Jews and Performance)

  • Eric Miller, publication: "The Self-Glorification Hymn Reexamined," Henoch 31, no. 2 (2009)

  • Rachel Mincer: 2009–2010 Targum Shlishi Foundation Dissertation Grant and participant in the Lillian Goldman Scholars Working Group on the Jewish Book

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