• Core Faculty
• Gary A. Rendsburg
• Jeffrey Shandler
• Nancy Sinkoff
• Paola Tartakoff
• Azzan Yadin
• Yael Zerubavel
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• Associated Faculty
• Maurice Elias
• Leslie E. Fishbein
• Ziva Galili
• Judith Gerson
• David Greenberg
• Paul Hanebrink
• Martha Helfer
• Michael Levine
• Phyllis Mack
• Barbara Straus Reed
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•  Visiting Faculty
•  Lecturers
•  Language Instructors
•  Emeritus Faculty

Jeffrey Shandler Associate Professor of Jewish Studies Ph.D. Columbia University M.A. Columbia University B.A. Swarthmore College

shandler@rci.rutgers.edu 12 College Avenue (732) 932-3572

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Yiddish language, literature and culture
• Jews and media (television, radio, film, sound recordings, computers)
• Holocaust representation: broadcasting, film, tourism, museums, etc.
• Jews and visual culture: photography, advertising, museums, etc.
• American Jewish vernacular culture

REGULARLY TAUGHT COURSES

• Modern Yiddish Literature and Culture
• Holocaust Literature
• American Jews and the Media
• Ethnography of Contemporary Jewish Life
• Remembering the Shtetl

PUBLICATIONS

• Translator, of Emil and Karl, by Yankev Glatshteyn (Roaring Brook Press, 2006.)
• Adventures in Yiddishland:  Postvernacular Language and Culture (University of California Press, 2005.)
• Co-author/co-editor, with J. Hoberman, of Entertaining America: Jews, Movies and Broadcasting (Princeton University Press/The Jewish Museum, New York, 2003.)
• Editor of Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust (Yale University Press/YIVO Institute, 2002.)
• Co-editor, with Hasia Diner and Beth S. Wenger, of Remembering the Lower East Side: American Jewish Reflections (Indiana University Press, 2000.)
• While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 1999.)
• Co-editor, with Dina Abramowicz, of Profiles of a Lost World: Memoirs of East European Jewish Life before World War II by Hirsz Abramowicz, trans. Eva Zeitlin Dobkin (Wayne State University Press/YIVO Institute, 1999.)
• Co-author/co-editor, with Beth S. Wenger, of Encounters with the Holy Land: Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture
  (Brandeis University Press/Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania /National Museum of American Jewish History, 1997.)
• Editor of The Life and Work of S. M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History by Sophie Dubnov-Erlich, trans. Judith Vowles (Indiana University Press/YIVO Institute, 1991.)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Visiting scholar and co-convener (with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett) of the Working Group on Jews, Religion, and Media, Center for Religion and Media, New York University, 2003 - present. Co-administrator of MODIYA: Jews/Media/Religion, an open-source Internet resource for researchers and teachers, sponsored by the Center for Religion and Media: http://modiya.nyu.edu
• Member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, New York.  
• Member of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society; member of the Academic Council’s Exhibitions Committee.
• Member of the Association for Jewish Studies; member of the editorial board of AJS Perspectives; member of the AJS Board of Directors.
• Member of the International Editorial Board of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History
• Member of the advisory board of Jewish Studies Quarterly.
• Member of PEN.
• Member of the editorial board of Prooftexts.