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  • Recent Dissertations
Arkin, Kimberly A. (Ph.D. 2008, University of Chicago)
"It's the French and the Arabs against the Jews": Identity Politics and the Construction of Adolescent Jewishness in France
Adviser: John L. Comaroff
Auerbach, Karen (Ph.D. 2009, Brandeis University)
A Window on Postwar Warsaw: The Jewish Families of 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue
Adviser: Antony Polonsky
Avni, Sharon (Ph.D. 2008, New York University)
Educating for Continuity: An Ethnography of Multilingual Language Practices in Jewish Day School Education
Adviser: Bambi Schieffelin
Benson, Richard (Ph.D. 2009, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Modernity, Marginality, and Redemption: German and Jewish Identity at the Fin-de-Siecle
Adviser: Jonathan M. Hess
Boyarin, Shamma Aharon (Ph.D. 2009, University of California, Berkeley)
Diasporic Culture and the Makings of Alexander Romances
Advisers: Jennifer Miller; Joshua Holo
Bryfman, David (Ph.D. 2009, New York University)
Giving Voice to a Generation: The Role of the Peer Group in the Identity Development of Jewish Adolescents in the United States
Adviser: Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Chasin, Stephanie (Ph.D. 2008, University of California, Los Angeles)
Citizens of Empire: Jews in the Service of the British Empire, 1906–1940
Adviser: David N. Myers [End Page e1]
Christodouleas, Tina P. (Ph.D. 2008, Pennsylvania State University)
Judeo-Spanish and the Jewish Community of Twenty-First Century Thessaloniki: Ethnic Language Shift in the Maintenance of Ethno-Cultural Identity
Adviser: John Lipski
Cichopek-Gajraj, Anna (Ph.D. 2008, University of Michigan)
Jews, Poles, and Slovaks: A Story of Encounters, 1944–1948
Advisers: Todd M. Endelman; Brian A. Porter-Szucs
Cohen, Julia Phillips (Ph.D. 2008, Stanford University)
Fashioning Imperial Citizens: Sephardi Jews and the Ottoman State, 1856–1912
Adviser: Aron Rodrigue
Cohn, Debra Ann (Ph.D. 2009, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology)
Kehillah Kedoshah: The Experience of Jewish Sacred Community: Among Twelve Jews Who Belong to Liberal Worship Communities
Advisers: Irene Lazarus; David Goff
Cook, L. Stephen, Jr. (Ph.D. 2009, Catholic University of America)
The Question of the "Cessation of Prophecy" in Ancient Judaism
Adviser: Christopher T. Begg
Corwin, Lily Neilan (Ph.D. 2009, Catholic University of America)
I and I: The Breakdown of Buber in Post-Holocaust Jewish American Literature
Adviser: Ernest Suarez
Der Matossian, Bedross (Ph.D. 2008, Columbia University)
Ethnic Politics in Post-Revolutionary Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Arabs, and Jews during the Second Constitutional Period (1908–1909)
Adviser: Rashid Khalidi
Drake, Susanna Laing (Ph.D. 2008, Duke University)
Sexing the Jew: Early Christian Constructions of Jewishness
Adviser: Elizabeth Clark
Dunagan, Curt (Ph.D. 2009, Brandeis University)
The Lost World of Przemysl: Interethnic Dynamics in a Galician Center, 1868 to 1921
Adviser: Antony Polonsky [End Page e2]
Finley, Gregory C. (Ph.D. 2009, Catholic University of America)
The Ebionites and "Jewish Christianity": Examining Heresy and the Attitudes of Church Fathers
Adviser: Susan Wessel
Fogel, Adam G. (Ph.D. 2008, Pacifica Graduate Institute)
Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? The Abraham Complex and the Infanticidal Position
Adviser: Christine Peterson
Freshman, Audrey (Ph.D. 2009, New York University)
Perception of Maternal PTSD as a Risk Factor for Substance Use Disorder: Evidence from Adult Children of Holocaust Survivors
Adviser: Lala Straussner
Glazer, Susan Dora (Ph.D. 2009, Brandeis University)
Business as Usual? Triestine Companies, the Italian Insurance Industry, and the "Jewish Question" during World War II
Adviser: Alice A. Kelikian
Gray, Hillel Charles (Ph.D. 2009, University of Chicago)
Foreign Features in Jewish Law: How Christian and Secular Moral Discourses Permeate Halakhah
Adviser: Michael Fishbane
Grossman, Susan C. (D.H.L. 2009, Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Between Authority and Autonomy: Women in the Rabbinic Courts: A Study of Rabbinic Attitudes and Perceptions
Adviser: Richard Kalmin
Hannold, Boyd A. (Ph.D. 2009, Temple University)
Jude in the Middle: How the Epistle of Jude Illustrates Gnostic Ties with Jewish Apocalypticism through Early Christianity
Adviser: Vasiliki Limberis
Holmes, John Dewey (Ph.D. 2008, University of California, Berkeley)
The Life and Times of Noah London: American Jewish Communist, Soviet Engineer, and Victim of Stalinist Terror
Adviser: Yuri Slezkine [End Page e3]
Hyman, Tali (Ph.D. 2008, New York University)
The Liberal Jewish Day School as Laboratory for Dissonance in American Jewish Identity Formation
Adviser: Lisa M. Stulberg
IRWIN, VERA V. (Ph.D. 2009, University of Michigan)
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