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Liora Halperin , Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, and Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies, publishes article "Majority and Minority Language in the Middle East: The Case of Hebrew in Mandate Palestine," in Laura Robson (ed.) Minorities in the Modern Arab World: New Perspectives (Syracuse University Press, 2016).

We are thrilled to announce that Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, recently published his first book, Moses Mendelssohn's Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2016). Moses Mendelssohn (1729鈥�1786) is often described as the founder of modern Jewish thought and as a...

Brian Catlos , Professor of Religious Studies, will be organizing and moderating three panels at this year's American Association of Italian Studies Conference in Boulder, CO, March 26-29, 2015, entitled "Italy in the Mediterranean I: Conflict," "Italy in the Mediterranean II: Images," and "Italy in the Mediterranean III: Identities." With...

Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently published an essay on strategies for attracting students to humanities courses. Entitled 鈥淓xpanding the Jewish Studies Classroom: Citizenship, Vulnerability, and the Trinity,鈥� the essay appears on the website of the...

The Middle East Studies Association has awarded the 2014 Albert Hourani Book Award to Brian Catlos's Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, ca. 1050-1614 (Cambridge: 2014). At the awards ceremony held on November 23 in Washington DC the prize committee chair, Prof. Tayeb el-Hibri (Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, UM Amherst)...

We are excited to announce that Liora Halperin , Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, has recently published her first book, Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 . The promotion and vernacularization of Hebrew, traditionally a language of Jewish liturgy and study, was a...

The recent book Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors by Brian Catlos , Professor of Religious Studies, recently appeared in The New Yorker . Check out the New Yorker's Briefly Noted Book Review to read more.

Sasha Senderovich , Assistant Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies, recently published an op-ed in The New York Times entitled " Goodbye, Lenin? " (follow the link to read). The op-ed ran December 9, 2013 and addressed the tearing down of the statue of Vladimir...