Programs Offered: Master of Arts in Jewish Studies; Certificate in Jewish Studies 
Director of the Graduate Program: Gary A. Rendsburg, 12 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus
(732-932-2033)
Members of the Graduate Faculty:Jonathan Gribetz, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and
History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia 
Modern Mideast history; Zionism; Jewish-Arab encounter
Gary A. Rendsburg, Professor of Jewish Studies and History,
SAS; Ph.D., New York 
Bible; Dead Sea scrolls; Hebrew language
Jeffrey Shandler, Professor of Jewish Studies, SAS; Ph.D.,
Columbia 
Contemporary Jewish life; Yiddish; media; visual culture
Nancy Sinkoff, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and
History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia 
Polish Jewish history; modern Jewish politics; Enlightenment
Paola Tartakoff, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and
History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia 
Medieval Jewish history; Jewish-Christian relations; medieval
and early modern Iberia
Azzan Yadin-Israel, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, SAS;
Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Rabbinic literature; hermeneutics
Yael Zerubavel, Professor of Jewish Studies and History, SAS;
Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Israel studies; Jewish memory
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty:
Maurice Elias, Professor of
Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Connecticut
School-based interventions; prevention;
social-emotional intelligence 
Leslie Fishbein, Associate Professor
of American Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
American studies
Ziva Galili, Professor of History,
SAS; Ph.D., Columbia 
Modern Russia; Eastern Europe
Judith Gerson, Associate Professor of
Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell 
Gender; work; social theory 
David Greenberg, Associate Professor
of Journalism and Media Studies and History, SC&I/SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Twentieth-century United States; political and
cultural
Paul Hanebrink, Associate Professor of History and Jewish
Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Modern East Central Europe; the history of nationalism and
anti-Semitism as modern political ideologies; religion in the modern
nation-state 
Martha B. Helfer, Associate Professor of German, SAS; Ph.D.,
Stanford 
Eighteenth- and 19th-century literature; aesthetic
theory; gender studies; German-Jewish studies 
Michael Levine, Professor of German, SAS; Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins
Nineteenth- and 20th-century German literature; literary
theory; intellectual history
Phyllis Mack, Professor of History and
Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell 
Early modern French and English history; women's
history 
Barbara Reed, Associate Professor of
Journalism and Media Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., Ohio State 
Ethnic press; history and contemporary; magazine
journalism