faculty
Neta Stahl
Program Director and Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature
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- Gilman 481
- 410-516-2208
Research Interests: Modern Hebrew literature, religion and literature, narrative theory, genre theory
Education: PhD, Tel Aviv University
Samuel Spinner
Assistant Professor, Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture
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- Gilman 406
- 410-516-0099
Research Interests: Yiddish literature 19th and 20th centuries, German-Jewish culture and literature, modernism, visual culture, history of anthropology, museum studies, Holocaust studies
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Alice Mandell
William Foxwell Albright Chair in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
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- Gilman 140
- 410-516-4701
Education: PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Theodore J. Lewis
Blum-Iwry Professor of Near Eastern Studies
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- 410-516-6791
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Steven David
Professor
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- Mergenthaler 362
- 410-516-7530
Research Interests: International relations, security studies, comparative politics
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Yitzhak Melamed
Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy
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- Gilman 274
- 410-516-0568
Research Interests: Early modern philosophy; German idealism; metaphysics
Education: PhD, Yale University
Pawel Maciejko
Associate Professor, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture
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- 338F Gilman
- 410-516-7575
Research Interests: Jewish Mystical tradition in the early modern period, history of Kabbalah, history of messianic and mystical movements, and Jewish encounters with modernity
Education: DPhil, Oxford University
David Katz
Assistant Professor
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- 410-516-7499
Education: PhD, University of Maryland, College Park
Beatrice Lang
Lecturer, Yiddish Language
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- Gilman 493
- 410-516-6183
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Mirit Bessire
Lecturer in Hebrew Language
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- Gilman 405
Research Interests: Hebrew Language; Foreign Language Pedagogy; Universal Instructional Design
Education: B.A. Semitic Languages Haifa University , M.S.Ed. Community Education Elmira College , M.S. Instructional Design Development and Evolution Syracuse University
James Loeffler
Felix Posen Professor in Modern Jewish History
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Research Interests: Research Interests: Modern Jewish History, Global Eastern Europe, Cultural And Legal History, Antisemitism, Human Rights, Genocide, And International Law
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Brahim El Guabli (He/His/Him)
Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Amazigh Studies, Arabic Studies, Francophone Studies, Jewish Studies, Tamazghan Studies, Memory Studies, Historiography, Indigenous Studies, and Desert Studies