Jeffrey Shandler

Jews, God and Videotape

Adventures in Yiddishland

While America Watches

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Yiddish language, literature and culture. Special interests include
  language and culture, translation, language learning, Yiddish after
  World War II.
• Holocaust remembrance in mass media, tourism, museums,
  literature, etc.
  
• American Jews and media: broadcasting, film, video, sound
  recordings, digital media.
  
• Jews and visual culture: photography, advertising, exhibitions,
  material culture, etc.
  
• Ethnographic studies of Jewish life, especially in America and Eastern Europe.
• Queer/gay/lesbian Jewish culture
  

REGULARLY TAUGHT COURSES

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

PUBLICATIONS

• Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America (New York University Press, 2009).
  
• 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
• Rutgers University Press, co-editor (with Matti Bunzl) of book series, Jewish Cultures of the World
  
• Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society.
• Member of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS Board of Directors, 2003-2007), Vice President for Publications, 2009-present.
  
• Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, New York.
• Member of the editorial board of Contemporary Jewry.
  
• International Editorial Board of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History.
• Advisory board of Jewish Studies Quarterly.
• Member of PEN.