Jonathan Marc Gribetz (bio)
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and History
Ph.D., Columbia University
M.St., Oxford University
A.B., Harvard University
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research focuses on the encounter between Jews and their Middle Eastern neighbors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As an intellectual-cultural historian, I am especially interested in the roles that ideas of religion, secularism, race, and nation played in this encounter and in how these ideas were transformed as they were transported between Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. I also have a strong interest in the study of translation as a tool of understanding, misunderstanding, apologetics, and polemics in the modern Middle East.
Courses Taught
Jews in the Islamic World
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Jerusalem Contested
Jewish Society and Culture II
Publications
- "'Their Blood is Eastern': Shahin Makaryus, Race, and the Jews," Middle Eastern Studies (forthcoming).
- "Debating Palestine before the International Community, 1924: A Methodological Inquiry into the Charge of 'Bias,'" Israel Studies 17:1 (2012).
- "An Arabic-Zionist Talmud: Shimon Moyal's At-Talmud," Jewish Social Studies 17:1 (2011).
Conferences Organized
- “Fragmented Encounters: Religion, Race, and the Secular in Jewish-Muslim Relations” - Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2010
- “New Approaches: Home, Nation and Landedness in Modern Jewish Identity” - Harvard University, 2008.
Post-doctoral Fellowships
- Ray D. Wolfe Fellow, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto
- Maurice Amado Fellow, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Awards
- Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- Schusterman Israel Scholar Award
- Kathryn Wasserman Davis Critical Language Fellowship
- Wexner Graduate Fellowship
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
Professional Affiliations
- American Historical Association
- Association for Jewish Studies
- Association for Israel Studies
- Middle Eastern Studies Association
- Phi Beta Kappa
