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
(848-932-2033)
Website:http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/academics/graduate
Members of the Graduate Faculty: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, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and
History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Medieval Jewish history; Jewish-Christian relations; medieval
and early modern Iberia
Azzan Yadin-Israel, Assdociate Professor of Jewish Studies, SAS;
Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Rabbinic literature; hermeneutics; early Judaism
Yael Zerubavel, Professor of Jewish Studies and History, SAS;
Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Israel studies; Jewish memory
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty:
Debra Ballentine, Professor Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
Bible; ancient Near Eastern religions
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, 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
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