Recent Dissertations

Ackerman, John Wolfe (Ph.D. 2013, Northwestern University) The Politics of Political Theology: Rosenzweig, Schmitt, Arendt.

Adviser: Bonnie H. Honig

Aguzzi, Steven D. (Ph.D. 2013, Duquesne University) Theology Israel, the Church, and Eschatological Hope: Moltmann’s Millenarianism and the Jewish-Catholic Question

Adviser: Aimee Light

Amihay, Aryeh (Ph.D. 2013, Princeton University) Law and Society in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Adviser: Martha Himmelfarb

Anklewicz, Michael (Ph.D. 2013, York University) Musical Hybridities and the Klezmer Revival

Adviser: Louise Wrazen

Battista, Andrew (Ph.D. 2011, University of Kentucky) Knowing, Seeing, and Transcending Nature: Judaic Holiness and the Control of Nature in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Adviser: Randall Roorda

Bell-Kligler, Roberta (Ed.D. 2013, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Case Studies of North American Jewish Educators: Attitudes Regarding Israel and Israel Engagement

Adviser: Carol Ingall

Berlinger, Gabrielle A. (Ph.D. 2013, Indiana University) Constructing Hope: Sukkot in South Tel Aviv

Adviser: Jason B. Jackson

Bitzan, Amos (Ph.D. 2011, University of California, Berkeley) The Problem of Pleasure: Disciplining the German Jewish Reading Revolution, 1770–1870

Adviser: John Efron

Bovy, Phoebe Maltz (Ph.D. 2013, New York University) “Embrasser les Juifs”: Jews and Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century France (1792–1906)

Adviser: Claudie Bernard

Boxer, Matthew E. (Ph.D. 2013, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Jewish Identity on All Frontiers: The Effect of Jewish Community Size on Jewish Identity

Adviser: John DeLamater

Brody, Samuel Hayim (Ph.D. 2013, University of Chicago) This Pathless Hour: Messianism, Anarchism, Zionism, and Martin Buber’s Theopolitics Reconsidered

Adviser: Paul Mendes-Flohr

Brungs, Juliette (Ph.D. 2013, University of Minnesota) Performing the Jewish Body in Contemporary Germany

Adviser: Morris Leslie

Cogan, Neil Howard (Ph.D. 2014, University of California) Jews and Manliness: Eighteen Narratives of a Gendered Other’s Re-Gendering Itself, 1862–1922

Advisers: Jon Wiener; David N. Myers

Cohen, Ilise Benshushan (Ph.D. 2013, California Institute of Integral Studies) Israeli State Violence/Mizrahi Resilience: An Ethnography of Mizrahi Experiences of War and Eviction and Their Intersection with Palestinian Experiences

Adviser: Mutombo M’Panya

Cohen, Sara Simcha (Ph.D. 2013, University of California, Los Angeles) Hearth of Darkness: The Familiar, the Familial, and the Zombie

Adviser: Eleanor Kaufman

Cooper, Andrea Dara (Ph.D. 2013, New York University) “More than Love”: Eros and Family in Rosenzweig and Levinas

Adviser: Elliot R. Wolfson

Corber, Erin M. (Ph.D. 2013, Indiana University) L’esprit du corps: Bodies, Communities, and the Reconstruction of Jewish Life in France, 1914–1940

Adviser: Mark Roseman

Cover, Michael Benjamin (Ph.D. 2013, University of Notre Dame) Lifting the Veil: 2 Corinthians 3:7–18 In Light of Jewish Homiletic and Commentary Traditions

Adviser: Gregory E. Sterling

Dennert, Brian C. (Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago, 2013) John the Baptist and the Jewish Setting of Matthew

Adviser: Edmondo F. Lupieri

Feibusch, Carl Edward (Ph.D. 2013, University of California, Irvine) Jews and Credit in Late Thirteenth-Century England

Adviser: James Given

Francin, Rudolph T. (Ph.D. 2013, Adelphi University) Assessing Bias against Religion

Adviser: Joel Weinberger

Friesen, Courtney Jade (Ph.D. 2013, University of Minnesota) Reading Dionysus: Euripides’ “Bacchae” among Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World

Adviser: Philip Sellew

Glatstein, Jeremy (Ph.D. 2013, University of Southern California) The Watching Night: Print, Power and Jewish Vision in Early Modern Italy

Adviser: Sean Roberts

Gutoff, Joshua (Ed.D. 2013, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Talmud Study and the Development of the Moral Imagination: A Theoretical Framework

Adviser: Barry Holtz

Haley, Kevin Joseph (Ph.D. 2012, University of Notre Dame) In the Midst of the Congregation I Will Praise You” (Ps 22:23b): The Reinterpretation of the Psalms of the Individual in Judaism and Christianity

Adviser: Gary A. Anderson

Halper, Shaun Jacob (Ph.D. 2013, University of California, Berkeley) Mordechai Langer (1894–1943) and the...