Dissertations in Jewish Studies

ABRAMSON, SHMUEL (Ed.D. 2004, Yeshiva University)
Attitudes of High School Students to Special Need Pupils: Comparison between Students in Jewish Day Schools with and without Special Education Programs
Adviser: Alvin I. Schiff

ADAMS, JUTTA SCHMITT (Ph.D. 2004, Princeton University)
Historical Fictions: Representations of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Salons
Adviser: Barbara Hahn

ANDREWS, CARYN SCHEINBERG (Ph.D. 2004, University of Maryland, Baltimore)
The Measurement of Modesty among Jewish American Women
Director: Louise S. Jenkins

AYTURK, ILKER (Ph.D. 2004, Brandeis University)
Language and Nationalism: A Comparative Study of Language Revival and Reform in Hebrew and Turkish
Adviser: Avigdor Levy

BENOR, SARAH BUNIN (Ph.D. 2004, Stanford University)
Second Style Acquisition: The Linguistic Socialization of Newly Orthodox Jews
Adviser: Penelope Eckert

BUCHWALD, I. NANCY NIELD (Ph.D. 2004, University of Chicago)
Anxious Embodiments: Revenants of Post-WWII American Jewish Masculinities in Barnett Newman's "Stations of the Cross"
Adviser: Barbara Stafford

COHEN, BETH B. (Ph.D. 2003, Clark University)
Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in America, 1946–1954
Adviser: Deborah Dwork

DAUBER, JONATHAN VICTOR (Ph.D. 2004, New York University)
Standing on the Heads of Philosophers: Myth and Philosophy in Early Kabbalah
Adviser: Elliot R. Wolfson

DAVIDSON, JILLIAN VANESSA (Ph.D. 2003, Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
A "Secular Catastrophe" in Eastern Europe: The Great War and the Reconstruction of Modern Jewish Memory
Adviser: David Roskies

EYLON, DINA (Ph.D. 2001, University of Toronto)
The Soul and Afterlife in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosticism
Adviser: Libby R. Garshowitz

FELDMAN, AARON DAVID (Ph.D. 2004, Georgia State University)
Parenting Style and Behaviors Associated with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in At-Risk Adolescents in the Orthodox Jewish Community
Adviser: Joanna White

GALE, JONATHAN DAVID (Ph.D. 2004, Alliant International University, San Diego)
The Effects of Aversive Anti-Semitism on Selection Decisions Regarding Jewish Workers in the United States
Adviser: Bernardo M. Ferdman

GARLAND, LIBBY (Ph.D. 2004, University of Michigan)
Through Closed Gates: Jews and Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921–1933
Chair: Regina Morantz-Sanchez

GLASER, AMELIA (Ph.D. 2004, Stanford University)
The Marketplace and the Church: Jews, Slavs, and the Literature of Exchange, 1829–1929
Adviser: Monika Greenleaf

HEISER, MICHAEL S. (Ph.D. 2004, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
The Divine Council in Late Canonical and Noncanonical Second Temple Jewish Literature
Supervisor: Michael V. Fox

HOFFMAN, WARREN D. (Ph.D. 2004, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Gayvalt: Queer Performance and Identity in Twentieth-Century Jewish-American Literature, Theater, and Film
Chair: Murray Baumgarten

HUGHES, ANTHONY THOMAS (Ph.D. 2003, University of New South Wales)
The Rise and Fall of Sydney Hakoah Soccer Football Club: A Case Study of Sport and Identity in Sydney's Jewish Community, 1923–1987
JACOBSON, DANIEL B. (Psy.D. 2004, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey)
Psychological and Religious Change of Orthodox Jewish Boys during a Post–High School Year of Study in an Israeli Yeshiva
Chairperson: Lee Gantwerk

JONES, ELIEZER A. (Ph.D. 2004, Alliant International University, Los Angeles)
Jewish Adolescent Suicide: Jewish Parents' of Orthodox Jewish Adolescents Knowledge about Adolescent Suicide and Its Relationship to Their Perceptions and Religious Beliefs
Chair: David Fox

JONES, MARK (Ph.D. 2004, Saint Louis University)
Alterity and Nationalism on the Elizabethan Stage: A Study of the Spanish and Jewish Other in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Adviser: Thomas Moisan

KARASICK, SHOSHANA (Ph.D. 2004, Fordham University)
Individuation, Differentiation, and Psychological Adjustment in Orthodox Jewish College Students
Director: David Chabot

KAYE, JOAN SARA (Ed.D. 2004, Pepperdine University)
Portraits of Jewish Women Philanthropists
Chairperson: Robert Paull

KISLOWICZ, BARRY (Ed.D. 2004, Columbia University Teachers College)
Appropriating Kohlberg forTraditional Jewish High Schools
Sponsor: John Kuentzel

KEREKES, JANET ELIZABETH (Ph.D. 2004, University of Toronto)
Masked Ball at the White Cross Cafe: The Failure of Jewish Assimilation in Post-Emancipation Hungary
Adviser: David Levine

LACHTER, HARTLEY (Ph.D. 2004, New York University)
Paradox and Mystical Union in the Zohar
Adviser: Elliot R. Wolfson

LAMBERT, DAVID ARTHUR (Ph.D. 2004, Harvard University)
Topics in the History of Repentance: From the Hebrew Bible to Early Judaism and Christianity
Adviser: James L. Kugel

LANDRESS, BARBARA ANN (Ph.D. 2004, New York University)
Her Glory All Within: Rejecting and Transforming...