Jewish Studies Faculty Bookshelf
Check out books written and edited by our accomplished faculty members!
Jewish Studies Faculty Bookshelf
Check out books written and edited by our accomplished faculty members!
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Ms. Goldman graduated from Lewinsky Teachers College in Israel with a B.Ed in Hebrew language, Hebrew Literature and Biblical Literature and with a Teacher's Certification in these subjects. She continued her graduate studies in the U.S. and received M.Phil degree in Hebrew Literature from Columbia University, Graduate School for Arts and Sciences Department of Middle East Languages and Cultures.
Ms. Goldman is also a translator and the managing editor of HHE, a publication of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH).
Religion After Roe: Abortion in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Monday, September 19
Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center, John Carroll University
“Tapping on the Stained Glass Ceiling: The Ordination of Orthodox Jewish Women in America and Israel.” Interviews and observations started in June 2016.
“Jewish Reproductive Justice: Pronatalism and Pro-Choice Judaism.” In partnership with the CrossCurrents Summer Research Colloquium at Auburn Theological Seminary
Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women, Indiana University Press, (2020).
“Whose Womb and Whose Ethics? Surrogacy in Jewish Ethics,” Journal of Jewish Ethics, 3.1 (2017). 68-91.
“Ethnography and Jewish Ethics: Lessons from a Case Study in Reproductive Ethics,” Journal of Religious Ethics, 44.4 (2016). 636-658.
“The Cultural and Legal Reproduction of Poverty: Abortion Legislation in Israel.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 30:1 (2014). 147-156.
“What they Mean by ‘Good Science’: The Medical Community’s Response to Boutique Fetal Ultrasounds.” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 34:5 (2009). 528-544.
Ramarajan, Arulmozhi, Renzong Qiu, Michal Raucher, Ruth Chadwick, Amna Nossier, Shahida Zaidi. “Sexual Rights and Gender Roles in a Religious Context. Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights: 15 Years after the International Conference on Population and Development.” FIGO World Report on Women's Health. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 106:2 (2009). 151-155
“Be Fruitful and Multiply…Except…Contraception in Judaism: Balancing Competing Values.” Religious Perspectives on Reproductive Ethics, edited by Dena Davis. New York: Oxford University Press. 2019
“Anonymous Intimacy: Orthodox Jewish Women as Legal Advisors on the Internet.” In Digital Judaism, edited by Heidi Campbell, 74-90. New York: Routledge, 2015.
“Immersing in Climate Change.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 33.2 (2017). 162-167.
Henning, Alyssa, Michal Raucher, and Laurie Zoloth. “A Jewish Response to the Vatican?” American Journal of Bioethics 9:11 (2009). 37-39.
Zoloth, Laurie, Leilah Backus, Teresa Woodruff, Alyssa Henning and Michal Raucher. “Like/As Metaphor and Meaning in Bioethics Narrative,” American Journal of Bioethics 8:6 (2008). W3-W5
Review of Michal Kravel-Tovi, When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel. Religious Studies Review (Forthcoming)
Review of Jonathan Saks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Class of Civilizations. The New Jewish Canon, edited by Claire Sufrin and Yehuda Kurtzer (Forthcoming 2020).
Review of Rebecca Todd Peters, Trust Women: A Progressive Christian argument for Reproductive Justice. The Syndicate Network. May 8, 2019
Ethnographic Encounters in Israel: Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork. H-Judaic. 2015.
“Even the Allies are Misogynist” Feminist Studies in Religion Blog, May 28, 2019.
“Feminist Ethnography Inside and Outside the Field” Feminist Studies in Religion Blog, May 8, 2018.
“Sexual Assault, Feminism, and the Jews” Feminist Studies in Religion Blog, October 19, 2017.
“‘Facts on the Ground’: An Ironic Approach to Orthodox Female Rabbis?” Feminist Studies in Religion Blog, November 11, 2015.
“Jewish Law’s Positive View on Contraception,” The New York Jewish Week, February 6, 2018.
“Let’s Talk about Sex” JTS Torah Commentary, June 7, 2017.
“Facing Our Past and Looking toward the Future” JTS Torah Commentary, May 27, 2016.
“Rachel Leans In,” JTS Torah Commentary, November 5, 2015.
“Dissent is Not a Dirty Word,” JTS Torah Commentary, June 19, 2015.
“The Clothes Make the (Wo)Man,” JTS Torah Commentary, June 13, 2014.
I teach and lecture on a wide range of topics, including reproduction in Israel, Jewish ethics, Jewish women, and Jewish feminism. For a sample of my teaching style, see this lecture:
“Whose Womb and Whose Ethics? Surrogacy in Jewish Ethics.” Temple Beth Sholom, Cherry Hill, NJ. April 29.
“Is there a Jewish Continuity Crisis?” The Jewish Theological Seminary, June 8, 2020.
2019: CrossCurrents Summer Research Collquium, Auburn Theological Seminary, “Pronatalism and Reproductive Justice in Judaism.”
2016-2017: American Academy of Religion, Individual Research Grant, “Tapping on the Stained Glass Ceiling,” $5,000
2016-2017: Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Research Grant, “Tapping on the Stained Glass Ceiling,” $4,000
2015-2016: Israel Institute, Research Grant, “Orthodox Female Clergy in Israel and America,” $8,195
2010-2011: Wenner Gren Foundation, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, “Haredi Reproductive Ethics,” $12,995
2010-2011: Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Doctoral Scholarship, “Haredi Reproductive Ethics,” $4,000
2009-2010: Fulbright Fellowship, Institute of International Education, “Haredi Reproductive Ethics.”
American Academy of Religion
Feminist Studies in Religion, board member, co-chair of E-Feminist Studies in Religion
Editorial board member, Journal of Jewish Ethics
Vice President, Society of Jewish Ethics
Association for Jewish Studies
Association for Israel Studies
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Email blast (March 2024)
(for older email blasts, dating back to April 2021, see further below)
Almost three thousand years ago, a small group of ancient Israelite literati wrote the major narrative that spans the biblical books of Genesis through Kings, creating what may be called the world's first history. The narrative focuses on the people of Israel, but because the history of Israel constantly intersected with the surrounding countries, the Bible gives us a veritable tour of the ancient Near East. Great powers such as Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, and Persia, and lesser powers such as the Philistines and the Phoenicians, all make an appearance in the Bible's pages.
Professor Gary Rendsburg, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair in Jewish History at Rutgers University, presents both the evidence from the Bible and the wealth of archaeological data, with an eye to evaluating these two sources and to determining the manner in which they inform each other.
The course is brought to you by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University, and is made possible by a generous benefaction from Mr. Gene Hoffman of Short Hills, N.J.
The course uses the Canvas platform, to which you will be directed upon registration.
Total viewing time is a tad under three hours, simply follow this link in order to register:
https://bildnercenter.rutgers.edu/online-studies/online-courses/bible-and-historyMap of the Kingdom of Ugarit, c. 1300 B.C.E.
Kudos to my student Noam Aharon (Rutgers, B.A. 2023, Geography, summa cum laude) for producing this excellent default map of the kingdom of Ugarit, c. 1300 B.C.E.
Noam hereby grants permission for the gratis use of the map for non-commercial purposes, though credit should be duly noted.
For commercial use, please contact me (
See also the default second file , for a list of bibliographic references.
For further details, see https://sites.google.com/view/noamaharon/home/ugaritic-kingdom-map
How the Bible Is Written (Hendrickson)
All Things Ancient Israel (about four minutes)
https://www.bensira.org/ – co-developed with Jacob Binstein, launched December 2013, presents the manuscript tradition of the book of Ben Sira, from Qumran, Masada, and the Cairo Geniza.
http://jts-ms-r1622-1.org/– co-developed with Joshua Blachorsky (with the assistance of Jacob Binstein), launched May 2015, presents the images and transcriptions of JTS MS R1622.1, one of the most important (albeit incomplete) extant Mishna manuscripts.
http://johannes-obadiah.org/ – co-developed with Peter Shamah (with the assistance of Jacob Binstein), launched August 2018, presents the documents (all from the Cairo Geniza) relating to the life of Johannes of Oppido = Obadiah the Proselyte, Catholic monk who converted to Judaism in 1102 C.E.
The Haggadah through the Ages | |
Ancient Toileting Practices | |
Isaac Newton and the Great Plague of 1665-1666 | |
What a great experience, to lead this bespoke tour of Oxford, Cambridge, and London (along with other locations):
July 31 - August 9, 2023
The tour is now concluded, but I leave this information here for interested parties.
Click default here for the pdf file with the detailed itinerary.
Click here for the link for pricing, booking, etc.
In general, see my YouTube channel, though see also the links and details below:
Mandelbaum House Lectures, University of Sydney, March-April 2019:
> "The First Diasporas: Egypt and Babylonia," the 12th Annual Alan Crown Memorial Lecture, presented at Mandelbaum House, University of Sydney, 28 March 2019. Also available at my Facebook page. For the pdf version of the PowerPoint presentation, by which one can more easily follow the lecture, click here.
> “Septuagint, Synagogue, and Symbiosis: The Jews of Hellenistic Egypt,” 4 April 2019. Also available at my Facebook page. For the pdf version of the PowerPoint presentation, by which one can more easily follow the lecture, click here.
> “The Jews of Arabia,” 7 April 2019. Unfortunately, this lecture was not recorded. Nonetheless, for the pdf version of the PowerPoint presentation, click here.
> “England as the Custodian of the Jewish Past,” 14 April 2019. Also available at my Facebook page. For the pdf version of the PowerPoint presentation, by which one can more easily follow the lecture, click here. For the pdf version of the handout, click here.
“Classical Jewish Texts, from Parchment to Internet,” University of Arizona, April 12, 2021, Shaol & Louis Pozez Memorial Lecture (2021).
“The Greatest Bible Ever Written: Kennicott no. 1, La Coruña, Spain, 1476," Flint Institute of Arts, July 14, 2021, Sheppy Dog Fund Lecture.
“In Search of Ancient Israel: The Historical Roots of the Biblical Narrative,” Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, Case Western Reserve University, August 25, 2021.
“England as the Custodian of the Jewish Past” – three-part lecture series for the Orange County Jewish Community Scholar Program (https://occsp.net/, December 2021
See here for three recordings:
a. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (Dec 5, 2021) – link
b. The Cairo Geniza, Discovery and Documents (Dec 12, 2021) – link
c. The British Library and the John Rylands Library (Dec 19, 2021) – link
“The Significance of Ugaritic for the Study of the Bible,” the Sixth Annual Edward Ullendorff Memorial Lecture, delivered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, February 2022, available here: https://vimeo.com/680384679
"The Bible in Our Hands," The Bishop's School, La Jolla, Calif., April 27, 2022. For the pdf version of the PowerPoint, see pdf here .
EMAIL BLASTS FOR THE GARY A. RENDSBURG LECTURE SERIES (APRIL 2021 – MARCH 2024)
ON SCRIPT INTERVIEW
Many thanks to my colleagues Mark Janzen (Louisiana College) and Chris McKinney (Gesher Media) for this fine 48-minute podcast interview, on the Exodus narrative in the Bible, posted on July 28, 2021.
https://onscript.study/five-views-on-the-exodus-pt-3-gary-rendsburg/
ISRAEL BIBLE CENTER INTERVIEW
For a long interview, lasting 1 hour and 40 mins., conducted by Isaiah Gruber of the Israel Bible Center, discussing the full range of my teaching, research, and publications, conducted on November 4, 2018, follow the links below.
A description and preview of the interview may be found here:
https://israelbiblecenter.com/roundtable-talks/bible-language-ancient-israel/
For more on the Israel Bible Center, its faculty, its programs, its academic partnerships, and more, go to: https://israelbiblecenter.com/.
The eight individual links range from 5:35 (the shortest) to 16:53 (the longest):
Many thanks to Isaiah Gruber for his initiative and for conducting the interview, and to the Israel Bible Center for permission to post the interview at my website.
Friends of ASOR Podcast: Gary Rendsburg, “Best of Times, Worst of Times”
posted April 25, 2014
Listen to ASOR’s own Ancient Near East Today editor, Alex Joffe, talk with Prof. Gary Rendsburg (Rutgers University), about the state of biblical archaeology and the study of the humanities.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/156019/2795281-israelian-hebrew
This is a lengthy podcast interview (I hour 33 mins), conducted by Alex Sorin of https://foreigncy.us/, regarding my work on Biblical Hebrew dialects, including Israelian Hebrew – though many additional topics are discussed as well.
“Between the Lines” podcast, hosted by Simon Eder (London):
https://jewishquest.org/podcast/between-the-lines-35-behar/
This segment (which runs 33 minutes) allowed me to share with the audience the work of the brilliant scholar Mary Douglas (1921–2007), with special attention to her structural analysis of the book of Leviticus.
https://jewishquest.org/podcast/between-the-lines-48-ekev/
This segment (which runs 22 minutes) allowed me to share with the audience some thoughts about food, agriculture, and the environment in ancient Israel.
I have had the honor and privilege of producing two courses for The Great Courses program (formerly known as The Teaching Company), located in Chantilly, VA. The first course, "The Book of Genesis," was released in May 2006, while the second course, "The Dead Sea Scrolls," was released in March 2010.
Both courses consist of a series of 24 lectures, and are available in either video (DVD) or audio (CD or download) format.
The Great Courses: Book of Genesis
The Great Courses: Dead Sea Scrolls
The latter course is also available via the Wondrium (formerly Great Courses Plus) streaming service, click here.
For an article on The Great Courses, which appeared in The New York Times in March 2015, click here.
Interview with Cyrus H. Gordon (1998) at YouTube
During academic year 1997-1998, I had the privilege of serving as Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (CAJS) at the University of Pennsylvania. The theme for the year was “Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion,” with about twenty scholars in the interrelated fields of biblical studies, ancient Near Eastern studies, and archaeology of the Land of Israel gathered in Philadelphia for fruitful discussion.
See the volume Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion, edited by Gary Beckman and Theodore J. Lewis (Brown Judaic Studies 346; Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2006), which emerged from that academic year and from the conference held in April 1998.
In light of Cyrus Gordon’s long and enduring relationship with both Dropsie College (the forerunner of CAJS) and the University of Pennsylvania, I proposed to the Center to invite the grand master to Philadelphia for several days, where he could participate in a seminar, see the new facility, and sit for a two-hour interview. The Center leadership endorsed the proposal, and thus it was that Professor Gordon visited the Center in February 1998.
A little additional background: Cyrus Gordon was born in Philadelphia in 1908, grew up in the city, and received his primary, secondary, and university education there. Gordon earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1930), under the tutelage of Professor James Montgomery. All the while, he took courses at Dropsie College with Professor Max Margolis; and then Gordon returned to Dropsie to serve as Professor of Assyriology and Egyptology during the years 1946-1956. He described all of this in his engaging memoir, A Scholar’s Odyssey (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000), which won the National Jewish Book Award for that year. Also of interest is his book The Pennsylvania Tradition of Semitics (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986).
On February 3, 1998, as Professor Gordon approached his 90th birthday, I conducted the interview with him, with all the CAJS fellows and several invited guests present in the room. It is my honor now to make this interview available to a larger audience via YouTube.
A transcription of the complete two-hour interview, created by Peter Shamah, with light annotations by Peter and myself, is available here. The pdf file includes an Index of Persons Named and an Index of Places Named, and it is fully searchable.
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This course explores a major theme in Jewish studies and allows students to pursue their own scholarship, culminating in a major research paper. It is required of Jewish Studies majors and is usually taken in the junior or senior year.
This course fulfills Core requirement WC.
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Maps of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Nancy Sinkoff - The Life and Work of Lucy S. Dawidowicz (video)
Jewish History, particulary Early Modern Poland and Modern Europe
Jewish Politics
Jewish Labor and the Jewish Left
European Enlightenment
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History, (Wayne State University Press, 2020, pb. 2023).
Winner of the Natan Notable Book award for fall 2020 and the National Jewish Book Award for 2020 in the biography category.
Cypess, Rebecca and Sinkoff, Nancy, eds. Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin. (University of Rochester Press, June 2018).
2019 Book Prize winner, the Jewish Studies and Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society
"Yidishkayt and the Making of Lucy S. Dawidowicz," Introduction to Lucy S. Dawidowicz, From That Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947 (Rutgers University Press, xiii-xxxix. 2008).
Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands, (Brown Judaic Studies 2004; 2nd edition, digitized and with a new preface, 2020), FREE access: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv5tn.
“Preface,” Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands, 6 pages.
Menachem Mendel Lefin of Satanów (also Mendel Lefin Satanower), “Prayer against the Hasidim,” trans. Nancy Sinkoff, from Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands (Providence, R.I.: Brown Judaic Studies, 2004), pp. 274–75, in the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750–1880, eds. Elisheva Carlebach and Deborah Dash Moore (Yale University Press, 2019): 242-43.
“Dubnow’s Other Daughter: Jewish Eastern Europe in Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s The Golden Tradition,” in Making History Jewish: The Dialectics of Jewish History in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Studies in Honor of Professor Israel Bartal, eds. Paweł Maciejko and Scott Ury (Brill, 2020): 229-252.
“Introduction: Experiencing Sara Levy’s World.” Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin, co-edited with Rebecca Cypess (Eastman Studies in Music Series, University of Rochester Press, 2018): 1-18.
A Melancholy Offering, Tendered with Esteem, Gershom Scholem and Lucy S. Dawidowicz on Nathan Birnbaum, an Unexpected Conversation,”The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 107, No. 3 (Summer 2017) 409–426.
“From the Archives: Lucy S. Dawidowicz and the Restitution of Jewish Cultural Property,” American Jewish History 100:1 (January 2016): 117-147.
"Sisters and Strangers: Hannah Arendt and Lucy S. Dawidowicz," Heritage (Winter 2014): 22-23.
"Fiction's Archive: Authenticity, Ethnography and Philosemitism in John Hersey's The Wall", Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society, new series 17, no. 2 (Winter 2011): 48–79.
“The Polishness of Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s Postwar Jewish Cold War.” A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America, eds. Hasia Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson (Rutgers University Press, 2010): 31-47.
"Between History and Law: The Case of Joseph Perl in Austrian Galicia," (Hebrew), The Varieties of Haskalah, Shmuel Feiner and Israel Bartal, editors (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 2005): 123-136.
"The Maskil, the Convert, and the Agunah: Joseph Perl as a Historian of Jewish Divorce Law," AJS Review 27:2 (2003), 281-300.
"Strategy and Ruse in the Haskalah of Mendel Lefin of Satanów (1749-1826)," New Perspectives on the Haskalah, David Sorkin and Shmuel Feiner, editors (London and Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001): 86-102.
"Benjamin Franklin in Jewish Eastern Europe: Cultural Appropriation in the Age of the Enlightenment," Journal of the History of Ideas 61.1 (January 2000): 133-152.
Educating for "Proper" Jewish Womanhood: A Case Study in Domesticity and Vocational Training, 1897-1926, American Jewish History, 77:4 (June 1988) p.572.
Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2016), by Ken Frieden. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 31, Textual Transmission of Contemporary Jewish Cultures, ed. Uzi Rebhun (guest symposium editor: Avriel Bar-Levav) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020): 266-269.
A Difficult Woman: the Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2012), by Alice Kessler-Harris. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, volume 28, ed. Anat Helman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015): 280-283.
The Death of the Shtetl (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009), by Yehuda Bauer. Slavic Review 70:2 (Summer 2011): 441-42.
Review essay of Benjamin Balint, Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right and Nathan Abrams, Norman Podhoretz and Commentary Magazine: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons. American Jewish History, 96:1 (March 2010): 83-88.
The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005), by Murray Friedman. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 24, The Protestant-Jewish Conundrum, eds. Jonathan Frankel and Ezra Mendelsohn (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 233-235.
"(What Was Once) The World's Largest Jewish Community" Jewish Quarterly Review, 97:4 (Fall 2007): 647–659.
My Dear Daughter: Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2007), by Edward Fram. Canadian Slavonic Papers 51:4 (December 2009): 522-23.
Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), by Glenn Dynner. Slavic Review 66:4 (Winter 2007): 733-34.
Jewish Life in Cracow, 1918-1939 (Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 2004), by Sean Martin. Slavic Review 65:2 (Summer 2006): 362-63.
"Fireweed: A Political Autobiography,” by Gerda Lerner. Forward, October 18, 2002.
"Triestine Jewry: The Exception that Proves the Habsburg State-Building Rule." Review of Lois Dubin, The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture (Stanford, CA, 1999),
"The Untold Story of the ‘New York Intellectuals’," The New York Jewish Week, April 5, 2021.
“How Do We Honor an Anti-Feminist on International Women’s Day?”. American Jewish Historical Society, March 2, 2020.
“The World of Sara Levy.” Digital Yiddish Theatre Project. April 2019.
“The Creation of Sara Levy’s World,” with Rebecca Cypess. Proofed: A Boydell and Brewer Blog. July 4, 2018.
“Sara Levy’s World.” Musicology Now, May 2015.
“What’s a Friend to Do? Blogpost review of “Hannah Arendt.” Lilith Magazine, February 2013.
On TLV1! Listen to The Best and Worst of Both Worlds
https://tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv-review/2020/05/25/the-best-and-worst-of-both-worlds/ May 25, 2020
Bnai Brith International Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc7eULbF424 May 11, 2020
The Marc Bernier Show, BookMarc:
https://www.marcberniershow.com/Nancy-Sinkoff-8-6889.html May 4, 2020
The Bookmonger in National Review:
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-bookmonger/episode-292-from-left-to-right-by-nancy-sinkoff/ March 30, 2020.
New Books Network, New Books in History:
https://newbooksnetwork.com/nancy-sinkoff-from-left-to-right-lucy-s-dawidowicz-the-new-york-intellectuals-and-the-politics-of-jewish-history-wayne-state-up-2020/ March 17, 2020
Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Middle Ages Series, 2020).
Chaim I. Waxman is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University where he served from as a member of the Department of Sociology from 1975 to 2006. He has written and edited more than 18 books and more than 100 articles.
After retiring from Rutgers he moved to Jerusalem, Israel, where he continued to be active professionally and served as a senior fellow in several scholarly institutes. In 2013, he was recruited by Jerusalem’s Hadassah Academic College to write a proposal for an undergraduate program in behavioral sciences. When the proposal was approved by Israel’s Council for Higher Education, he was asked to head the new department which opened in the fall of 2016, where he continues to serve as Chair.
Books:
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My scholarship is publicly available at: https://rutgers-nj.academia.edu/AzzanYadinIsrael
Association of Jewish Studies
Society for Biblical Literature
Prooftexts: Journal of Jewish Literary History (rabbinics book-review editor)
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