Faculty

core Jewish Studies faculty at Rutgers

Core Faculty

Jonathan Gribetz, Jewish Studies and History Jews in the Islamic world, history of Palestine and Israel, Arab-Jewish relations, Zionism, nationalisms in the Middle East, modern religious apologetics and polemics, secularism, fin-de-siecle race-thinking, translation studies
Gary A. Rendsburg, Jewish Studies and History Literature of the Bible, history of ancient Israel, historical development of the Hebrew language, the relationship between ancient Egypt and ancient Israel
Jeffrey Shandler, Jewish Studies Yiddish language, literature and culture, Jews and media, Holocaust representation, Jews and visual culture, American Jewish vernacular culture
Nancy Sinkoff, Chair, Jewish Studies and History Modern European Jewish History, Jewish Politics, Jewish Labor and the Jewish Left, European Enlightenment
Paola Tartakoff, Jewish Studies and History Medieval Jewish History, social and cultural history of medieval Spain, Jewish-Christian relations in medieval Europe, Jewish conversion, the medieval and Spanish inquisitions
Azzan Yadin, Jewish Studies Rabbinic legal hermeneutics, origins of midrash, biblical interpretation
Yael Zerubavel, Jewish Studies and History Collective memory, history and memory, Zionism and Hebrew national culture, myths and ritual, Modern Hebrew literature, Jewish immigrant literature