Faculty News 

Professor Nancy Sinkoff's book, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History, is the winner of the Natan Notable Book award for fall 2020 and the National Jewish Book Award for 2020 in the biography category.

Professor Michal Raucher new book, Conceiving Authority: Reproduction and Ethics among Haredi Women in Jerusalem is published - Read more

Professor Nancy Sinkoff's blogpost for the Museum of Jewish Heritage - View blog

Article by Professor Nancy Sinkoff about her new book in The Forward - Read article

Review of Professor Nancy Sinkoff's new book, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History, in Mosaic magazine. - Read now

Music department's Associate Director, Rebecca Cypess, discusses the meaning of music on Work of Art: The Mason Gross Podcast. - Listen now

Professor Paul Hanebrink's book, A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism, is reviewed by Aidan Beatty. - Read review

"Orthodox Female Clergy Embodying Religious Authority" article by Assistant Professor, Michal Raucher, is published in the Fall 2019 AJS Perspectives. Read article or check out magazine

Department Chair and Associate Professor, Paola Tartakoff's new book, Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe, is now available. - Order now

Professor Nancy Sinkoff's book, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History, is mentioned in Tablet Magazine. - Read article

Assistant Professor, Michal Raucher, receives AJS Women’s Caucus Cashmere Subvention Award for her book project Birthing Jewish Ethics: Reproduction and Ethics Amon Haredi Women in Jerusalem. This is the first time such additional awards have been given that recognize significant achievement and important scholarship.

Nancy Sinkoff's 2018 volume of Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin, has been awarded the 2019 Book Prize from the Jewish Studies and Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society. - Rutgers, The Current

Assistant Professor, Michal Raucher, received a grant to attend the Teaching with Impact Workshop hosted by the Israel Institute this coming January - Read more

Review of Nancy Sinkoff's book, Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin -  Read review

Azzan Yadin-Israel writes review in the Marginalia Review of Books, "St. Augustine's Jews and the Undeserving Poor" - Read now

Review of Sara Levy’s World: Judaism, Gender, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin, edited by Rebecca Cypess and Nancy Sinkoff, in Notes, journal of the Music Library Association - Read review

Nancy Sinkoff's blogpost about Sara's Levy's World on the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project - Read More

Gary Rendsburg's new book, "How the Bible is Written" has just been published - Book Information

The Daily Targum article on Gary Rendsburg review on translating Hebrew Bible - Read Article

Paul Hanebrink's new book is reviewed by Christopher Browning - Read Review

Jewish History Matters podcast "Holocaust Memory and the Digital Age with Jeffrey Shandler" - Listen Now

Jewish Studies alumna, Amy Weiss, has lead article in the January 2019 journal, American Jewish History - Read Article

Gary Rendsburg's review of Robert Atler's new translation of the Bible - Read Review

Scholar in Israel Studies Joins Rutgers Faculty in Fall 2018 - Read More

Jeffrey Shandler Promoted to Distinguished Professor - Read More

Faculty Member and honors student launch Ben Sira website - Read More