Sam Boyd

Sam Boyd employs 23 ancient Near East languages in a quest for biblical understanding

July 14, 2016

Sam Boyd , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, was featured in the Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine for his outstanding research on the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. Boyd, who was awarded a 2016 Society for Biblical Literature Regional Scholars award, is one of the premier up-and-coming...

Liora Halperin

Liora Halperin Presents at Oxford, Middlebury College, and Colombia University

May 31, 2016

Liora Halperin , Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, and Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies, gave lectures about her book, Babel in Zion: Jews, Language, and Nationalism in Palestine, 1920-1948 at Middlebury College (VT) and the University of Oxford. While in Oxford, Prof. Halperin also worked with archival collections...

Sasha Senderovich

Sasha Senderovich Presents Several Papers at Harvard, Brandeis, and Colombia Universities

May 31, 2016

Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and Jewish Studies, spent the Spring 2016 on research leave as a Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University . During his fellowship, he continued work on his forthcoming book, How the Soviet Jew Was...

Nan Goodman

End of the Year Letter from Director Nan Goodman

May 31, 2016

In Act I, Scene 1 of the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman play, “You Can’t Take It With You,” the character known as Grandpa, the patriarch of the eccentric Vanderhof family, returns home after attending the graduation ceremony at Columbia University, which he does every year for the sheer...

Elias Sacks

Elias Sacks Publishes Article on Franz Rosenzweig, Forthcoming Book Appearing in Fall 2016

May 23, 2016

Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently published an essay in the Jewish Review of Books. Entitled “ Saving the World ,” the essay explores recent scholarship on the German-Jewish thinker Franz Rosenzweig and his near-conversion to...

Eyal Rivlin

Eyal Rivlin Receives CU-Engage Fellowship

May 20, 2016

Eyal Rivlin , Hebrew Language Instructor, received a CU-Engage Fellowship as part of a cohort of faculty spearheading community-based learning initiatives on campus. Professor Rivlin, who will be leading the Jewish Studies Internship during the 2016-2017 academic year, relays that the class "will be designed to create a dialogue between...

Yonatan Malin

Yonatan Malin Publishes Article on Jewish Cantillation

May 20, 2016

Yonatan Malin, Associate Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, published " Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis " in Yuval , the online journal of the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He will be presenting current research on relations between music analysis and...

Hebrew students performing

Eyal Rivlin Jams with 鶹Ժ in Second Annual Hebrew Shmooze-A-Palooza

April 5, 2016

On March 2, the Program in Jewish Studies hosted its second annual Hebrew Shmooze-A-Palooza, a musical celebration of the Hebrew and Yiddish classes at CU-Boulder. Lead by Eyal Rivlin , Hebrew Instructor at CU, students prepared musical arrangements in Biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, and Yiddish and performed them for their...

Nan Goodman

Director Nan Goodman on Thinking About Inclusive Excellence in Jewish Studies

April 1, 2016

After a sobering recent report on how excluded and ill at ease various groups of racially and ethnically identified students feel at the University of Colorado, faculty, staff, students, and administrators are turning their attention to issues of inclusivity with the goal of making the campus feel more like home...

Elias Sacks

Elias Sacks Publishes two Articles on Moses Mendelssohn

March 28, 2016

Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently published two articles on Moses Mendelssohn, a leading Enlightenment philosopher generally seen as the founder of modern Jewish theology. The first article — "Anarchy and Law: Mendelssohn on Philosophy and...

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