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Our core faculty members bring diverse specialties and interests to the Judaic Studies Department, including many facets of Jewish history, religion, philosophy, culture, and languages.

Faculty Profiles

Click on a faculty member to discover research interests, courses taught, publications, and contact information.

Allan Arkush, Chairman Modern Jewish History and Thought	Jonathan Karp Jewish Cultural and Economic History Jewish-Christian Relations	Adina Ofek Hebrew Language
Randy Friedman Modern Jewish Thought Philosophy of Religion	Gina Glasman Israeli, Sephardic and Yiddish Literature	Daniela Cohen Hebrew Language Jewish Literature and Culture
Sarah Shectman Hebrew Bible Ancient Near East

Representative Publications

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AJS Persepctives, Allan Arkush, Editor Spring 2008:  Orthodoxy: Then and Now Fall 2007:  The Jewish Race Spring 2007: Jewish Autobiography and Biography Fall 2006: Jewish Political Studies
Allan Arkush, "Drawing up The Jewish Social Contract" Jewish Quarterly Review (Spring 2008)	Jonathan, Karp, "Performing Black-Jewish Symbiosis: The 'Hassidic Chant' of Paul Robeson American Jewish History (March 2003)
Allan Arkush, "Rethinking Zion and Modernity" Jewish Social Studies (Fall 2002)	Jonathan, Karp, "The Mosaic Republic in Augustan Politics" Hebraic Political Studies (Summer 2006)
Adina Ofek, "Cantonists: Jewish Children As Soldiers in Tzar Nicholas's Army" Modern Judaism (October 1993)	Jonathan, Karp, The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation 1638-1848, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Randy Friedman, "The Challenge of Selective Conscientious Objection in Israel" Theoria (April 2006)	Randy Friedman, "Traditions of Pragmatism and the Myth of the Emersonian Democract" Transactions (Winter 2007)