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Professor Pegelow Kaplan was invited and is now serving on Yad Vashem (Jerusalem)'s selection committee for its International Book Prize for a monograph on the Shoah. Outside members are "renowned foreign scholars, chosen according to their international standing and according to their expertise." He was also invited and is currently...

Professor Mehta's latest piece about the new claim that Columbus was Jewish is published in Religion Dispatches . Click the hyperlink to read the article " New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues 鈥� But There鈥檚 a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With. "

Hilary Falb Kalisman's new article, "Apostles of knowledge: Feminine modernities and the travelling schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq," has been published in Gender and History. ABSTRACT: During the interwar era, nearly all of Iraq's secondary schoolmistresses journeyed to Iraq from other corners of the Arab world. This article examines their extraordinary...

Nice Jewish men wanting to date non-Jewish women has been a trope of U.S. stage and screen for 100 years. Read Samira K. Mehta's latest piece in The Conversation, which is also featured in PBS News. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/in-nobody-wants-this-century-old-rom-c...

Prof. Hilary Falb Kalisman appeared on the Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone podcast. In her interview, 鈥淵ou are Welcome Here,鈥� Falb Kalisman discusses teaching the history of Israel-Palestine. Listent to the iinterview at: https://www.juliecarrpoet.com/return-the-key/episode-8

In August 2024, Eyal Rivlin was promoted to Teaching Professor. In the summer of 2024, The Nonbinary Hebrew Project, cofounded by Lior Gross and Eyal Rivlin, was selected as a grant recipient of the Rise Up Initiative - Nurturing the Soul of Jewish Justice. As the their mission states, 鈥淩ise...

Professor Brian Catlos' book, Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (NYC: Basic, 2018) is being translated into 91制片厂n, Turkish, Arabic, and simplified Chinese in 2024.

Professor Samira K. Mehta was recently interviewed by NPR to discuss how, for the first time, the largest branch in American Judaism has agreed to ordain rabbis who are in interfaith marriages. Listen to the interview and read the transcript here.

Professor Thomas Pegelow Kaplan recently published a piece in a special issue of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book. Abstract By late 1941, some 1,300 Jews had escaped from National Socialist-controlled Europe to the Philippines. This essay problematizes the existing historiography on this rescue by going beyond examinations of its...

Professor Brian Catlos received a Guggenheim fellowship to support his work on his project An Age of Convergence: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean, a culmination of his scholarship to date showing when, how and why members of these three faith communities鈥攚hich hail from Africa, the Middle East...