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Faculty Awarded Prizes for their Work

Nov. 17, 2025—Rebecca Epstein-Levi received the 2025 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for the best book in Philosophy & Jewish Thought published over the last two years, awarded by the Jewish Studies Association for When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics (Indiana University Press, 2023). Ari Joskowicz received the 2025 Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize...

Jewish Studies to host Dr. Anna Duensing, March 26th

Jan. 24, 2025—Anna Duensing explores how a wide variety of Black Americans, including civil rights and labor organizers, journalists, artists, musicians, soldiers, and veterans, responded to Nazi Germany’s persecution, deportation, and later, mass murder, of European Jews in the 1930s and 1940s. Her talk will pay particular attention to the immediate postwar moment and the intersection of...

Ari Joskowicz honored for excellence in research for his book, Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust

Aug. 26, 2024—

A Catholic University Welcome Mat for Jewish Students Feeling Embattled, Shaul Kelner, associate professor of Jewish studies, quoted.

Oct. 23, 2023—

Allison Schachter, professor of Jewish studies, receives the Chancellor’s Award for Research for her book Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939.

Aug. 25, 2023—

Mazalit Haim named Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow

May. 23, 2023—

What has that got to do with the price of bananas in Tunisia? Article authored by David Wasserstein, Eugene Greener, Jr. Professor of Jewish Studies.

May. 8, 2023—

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Jewish Studies co-hosts “Confronting Hate: Antisemitism and Racism” roundtable discussion

Apr. 14, 2023—