Jewish Studies

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Susan A. Glenn
Professor
Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies
Liora Halperin
Professor
Joint Appointment: Jackson School of International Studies
Devin E. Naar
Associate Professor
Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies
Sephardic Studies Program Chair
Joint Appointment: Jackson School of International Studies

Latest News

Rethinking the Conference: Jews Amidst the Embers (August 2, 2023)
Professor Liora Halperin publishes new book The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (October 19, 2021)
2016 Hanauer Fellows: Eric Johnson and Sarah Zaides (March 3, 2016)
UW Welcomes Visiting Professor Christopher Browning (October 28, 2015)
Sarah Zaides named 2015-16 Newcombe Fellow (October 21, 2015)

Related Research

Joana Bürger, “Between Corfu and Athens: Moisis Caimis’ Contribution to the Making of Greek Jewry (1885-1916),” in Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History. Journal of the Fondazione CDEC 20 (December 2021), DOI: 10.48248/issn.2037-741X/13120
Liora R. Halperin, The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford University Press, 2021)
“Past Perfect: Jewish Memories of Language and the Politics of Arabic in Mandate Palestine,” in Heleen Murre-van den Berg et al., Arabic and its Alternatives: Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging nation states of the Middle East (1920-1950) (Leiden: Brill, 2020), pp. 228-256.
“Forging beginnings: Commemorative cultures and the politics of the “First Aliyah” Journal of Israeli History 38:1 (2020) Special Issue on Beginnings and Endings: Narration and Emplotment in the History of Zionism and the State of Israel, 53-76.
Liora R. Halperin, "Trading Secrets: Constructions and Contexts of Two Middle Eastern Jewish Guards in the Early Petah Tikva Agricultural Colony," International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2019): 1-22.
Susan A. Glenn, "Writing the Feminist Past," Jewish Social Studies (Winter 2019)
The “Kidnapping” of Hildy McCoy: Child Adoption and Religious Conflict in the Shadow of the Holocaust
"Was the Homosexual Made White? Race, Empire, and Analogy in Gay and Trans Thought in Twentieth-Century Germany," Gender and History (March 2019)
Liora R. Halperin, "Petah Tikva, 1886: Gender, Anonymity, and the Making of Zionist Memory," Jewish Social Studies, 23:1 (Fall 2017): 1-28
“Majority and Minority Languages in the Middle East: The Case of Hebrew in Mandate Palestine,” in Minorities in the Arab World, ed. Laura Robson, (Syracuse University Press, 2016), 174-190.

Jewish Studies

Susan A. Glenn

Liora Halperin

Devin E. Naar