Modern Jewish Studies

Faculty

Professors

David Fishman, Jewish History, Program Adviser (fall 2010)
Alan Mintz, Jewish Literature, Program Adviser (spring 2011)
Alan Mittleman, Jewish Thought
David G. Roskies, Jewish Literature, (on leave spring 2011)
Jack Wertheimer, Jewish History

Associate Professor

Barbara Mann, Jewish Literature

Ginor Visiting Professor of Israel Studies

Shmuel Sandler

Program

The program in Modern Jewish Studies is designed to provide the student with multidisciplinary training in the study of the modern Jewish experience (circa 1750–1980), with an emphasis on religion and culture. Students take courses in a variety of fields but major in either history or literature.

The Amos and Zvia Ginor Chair in Israeli Society and Culture, an endowment designed to deepen our understanding of contemporary Israeli society and culture, enables JTS to invite different Israeli scholars to teach for a semester in the Modern Jewish Studies program.

Past occupants of the chair have included:

• Larissa Remennick
• Gideon Shimoni
• Charles Leibman
• Gideon Ofrat
• Yoram Bilu

Degrees

Fall 2010–Spring 2011 Courses