Recent Dissertations

ACKERMAN-LIEBERMAN, PHILLIP ISAAC (Ph.D. 2007, Princeton University) A Partnership Culture: Jewish Economic and Social Life Seen through the Legal Documents of the Cairo Geniza Adviser: Mark R. Cohen

ATKINSON, VIKKI LYNN (Ph.D. 2007, University of San Francisco) Motivations of Jewish Adolescents in a British Hebrew School: Identity, Socialization, and Language Learning Adviser: Jeffry T. LaBelle

AVISHAI-BENTOVIM, ORIT (Ph.D. 2007, University of California, Berkeley) Politics of Purity: Menstrual Defilement and the Negotiation of Modern Jewish Femininities Adviser: Barrie Thorne

BAKER, JULIA K. (Ph.D. 2007, University of Cincinnati) The Return of the Child Exile: Reenactment of Childhood Trauma in Jewish Life-Writing and Documentary Film Adviser: Katharina Gerstenberger

BEN-BASSAT, YUVAL (Ph.D. 2007, University of Chicago) Local Feuds or Premonitions of a Binational Conflict? A Reexamination of the Early Jewish-Arab Encounter in Palestine at the End of the Nineteenth Century Adviser: Holly Shissler

BERNAT-KUNIN, GORDON (Ph.D. 2007, University of Southern Cali-fornia) Renewing the People of the Book: Theory and Practice for Building Jewish Interpretive Learning Communities Adviser: John Crossley

BRAUN, SARAH ALISA (Ph.D. 2007, University of Michigan) Jews, Writing, and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1880-1940 Adviser: Anita Norich

BREGOLI, FRANCESCA (Ph.D. 2007, University of Pennsylvania) Mediterranean Enlightenment: Jewish Acculturation in Livorno, 1737-1790 Adviser: David Ruderman

BREITZER, SUSAN ROTH (Ph.D. 2007, University of Iowa) Jewish Labor's Second City: The Formation of a Jewish Working Class in Chicago, 1886-1928 Adviser: Shelton Stromquist

DACCARETT, PAULA (Ph.D. 2007, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Jewish Social Services in Late Ottoman Salonica (1850-1912) Adviser: Benjamin Ravid

EICHLER-LEVINE, JODI (Ph.D. 2007, Columbia University) Memory's Offspring: Uses of the Past in Jewish, Latter Day Saint, and African American Children's Literature Adviser: Randall Balmer

FELSEN, SARAH BAILEY (Ph.D. 2007, University of California, Berkeley) In a Manner of Speaking: Yiddish and the Literature of the German-Jewish Subculture, 1803-1912 Adviser: Robert C. Holub

FLATO, JASON (Ph.D. 2007, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver) The Aesthetics of the Other: Ethics, Judaism, and the Work of Art in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas Adviser: Jere Surber

GAO, BEI (Ph.D. 2007, University of Virginia) China, Japan and the Flight of European Jewish Refugees to Shanghai, 1938-1945 Adviser: Chen Jian

GEVINSON, ALAN (Ph.D. 2007, Johns Hopkins University) The Origins of Vaudeville: Aesthetic Power, Disquietude, and Cosmopolitanism in the Quest for an American Music Hall Adviser: Ronald Walters

LEHMANN, DEVRA ROSE (Ph.D. 2007, Teachers College, Columbia University) Literacies and Discourses in the Two Worlds of a Modern Orthodox Jewish High School Adviser: Marjorie Siegel

HELLER, YEHUDIT BEN-ZVI (Ph.D. 2007, University of Massachusetts Amherst) New History, New Language: Biblical Intertextuality in the Poetry of Rahel Bluvshtain Advisers: Elizabeth Petroff; Susan Niditch

INBAR, DONNY (Ph.D. 2007, Graduate Theological Union) A Closeted Jester: Abraham Goldfaden between Haskalah Ideology and Jewish Show Business Adviser: Naomi S. Seidman

JARENSKI, SHELLEY (Ph.D. 2007, Loyola University, Chicago) Narrating Vision, Visualizing Nation: The American Nineteenth Century after 1839 Adviser: Christopher Castigilia

KIRK-CLAUSEN, VERONICA (Ph.D. 2007, University of California, Santa Cruz) Translation and Transnationalism in American Regional Literature Adviser: Susan Gillman

LEVY, GABRIEL JOHN (Ph.D. 2007, University of California, Santa Barbara) Changing Channels: Biblical Prophecy, Writing, and Cognition Advisers: W. Randall Garr; Giles Gunn

LICHTENSTEIN, NINA B. (Ph.D. 2007, University of Connecticut) Maghrebian Memories: Exodus and Marginality in Sephardic Women's Writing Adviser: Lucy S. McNeece

LYNN-SACHS, MICHELLE (Ph.D. 2007, New York University) Inside Sunday School: Cultural and Religious Logics at Work at the Intersection of Religion and Education Adviser: Mitchell Stevens

PAK, G. SUJIN (Ph.D. 2006, Duke University) The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates over the Messianic Psalms Adviser: David C. Steinmetz

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