Dissertations in Jewish Studies

T H E JE W I S H Q UA R T E R LY R E V I E W, Vol. 94, No. 3 (Summer 2004) 571–579 D I S S E R TAT I O N S I N J E W I S H S T U D I E S ADLER, ELIYANA R. (Ph.D. 2003, Brandeis University) Private Schools for Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia Adviser: Antony Polonsky BELL, LAWRENCE D. (Ph.D. 2002, Ohio State University) The Jews and Peron: Communal Politics and National Identity in Peronist Argentina , 1946–1955 Adviser: Kenneth J. Andrien BENJET, ROSALIND (Ph.D. 2002, University of Texas at Dallas) Identities Perceived, Identities Created: Jewish and Italian Immigrant Writers and Their Readers, 1900–1945 Adviser: Susan Branson BROWN, MATTHEW DAVID (Ph.D. 2003, Brandeis University) The ‘‘I’’ in the Center of the Horizon: American and Americaness in NineteenthCentury Sea Literature Adviser: Michael T. Gilmore DAVIDSON, CHRISTOPHER DMITRI (Ph.D. 2002, University of California , Berkeley) Stories of the Heart: American Jewish Families Respond to Individualism Chair: Arlie Russell Hochschild DAVIS, STACY NICOLE (Ph.D. 2003, University of Notre Dame) This Strange Story: Medieval Jewish and Christian Interpretation of the Curse of Canaan (Gen 9. 18–27), ca. 1075–1455 Adviser: Hugh R. Page Jr. DECTER, JONATHAN PHILIP (Ph.D. 2002, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) A Myrtle in the Forest: Displacement and Renewal in Medieval Hispano-Jewish Literature Adviser: Raymond P. Scheindlin The Jewish Quarterly Review (Summer 2004) Copyright 䉷 2004 Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. All rights reserved. 572 JQR 94:3 (2004) ELLMAN, JOSEPH (Ph.D. 2002, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) North American Jews in Israel: The Cultural Distinction and Identity of American -Anglo Olim Supervisor: Paul Brodwin FERRIS, MARCIE COHEN (Ph.D. 2003, George Washington University ) Matzah Ball Gumbo, Gasper Goo Gefilte Fish, and Big Momma’s Kreplach: Exploring Southern Jewish Foodways Advisers: John M. Vlach and Pamela Nadell FERSTENBERG, HELEN JOANNA (Ph.D. 2002, Yale University) Meditations on Jewish Creative Identity: Representations of the Jewish Artist in the Works of German-Jewish Writers from Heine to Feuchtwanger Director: Jeffrey L. Sammons FREY, MARC E. (Ph.D. 2002, Temple University) Challenging the World’s Conscience: The Soviet Jewry Movement, American Political Culture, and United States Foreign Policy, 1952–1967 Chair: Richard H. Immerman GARBARINI, ALEXANDRA (Ph.D. 2003, University of California, Los Angeles) To ‘‘Bear Witness Where Witness Needs to be Borne’’: Diary Writing and the Holocaust, 1939–1945 Adviser: Saul Friedlander GLASS, ELIZABETH KOTLER (Ed.D. 2001, University of Southern California) An Evaluation Study of Gifted Programs in Two Jewish Day Schools Adviser: Myron Dempo GOODMAN, JANET M. (Ph.D. 2002, Kent State University) Psychological Well-Being in the Jewish Community: The Impact of Social Identity and Spirituality Directors: Donald L. Bubenzer and Martin J. Jencius GRENN-SCOTT, DEBORAH (Ph.D. 2003, California Institute of Integral Studies) For She is a Tree of Life: Shared Roots Connecting Women to Deity: An Organic DISSERTATIONS IN JEWISH STUDIES 573 Theological Inquiry into Identities, Beliefs, and Practices among South African Lemba and European-American Jewish Women Adviser: Constance A. Jones GRINDHEIM, SIGURD (Ph.D. 2002, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) Paul’s Critique of the Jewish Confidence in the Election of Israel in 2 Corinthians 11.16–12:10 and Philippians 3.1–11 Adviser: D. A. Carson HAHN, ANDREW MAYER (Ph.D. 2001, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Tohu va-Vohu: Matter, Nothingness, and Non-Being in Jewish Creation Theology Supervisor: Seymour Feldman ILIZIROV, SONYA (Ph.D. 2001, Alliant International University) The Impact of Religiosity on Death Anxiety and Death Depression among JewishAmerican Adolescents Chair: Mel Hamel KAPLAN, GREGORY ETHAN (Ph.D. 2003, Stanford University) Hallowing Days: The Secular and the Sacred for Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig Adviser: Arnold M. Eisen KATZ, AMY WALLK (Ph.D. 2002, Michigan State University) Teaching Prayer in Liberal Supplementary Schools: An Analysis of the Challenges Adviser: Suzanne M. Wilson KELNER, SAUL J. (Ph.D. 2002, City University of New York) Almost Pilgrims: Authenticity, Identity, and the Extra-Ordinary on a Jewish Tour of Israel Adviser: Charles G. Kadushin KIM, BYOUNG CHAN (Ph.D. 2002, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) Spirit Language in Second Temple...