Dissertations in Jewish Studies

ABOSCH, SARA (Ph.D. 2004, State University of New York at Buffalo)
"We are Not Only English Jews—We are Jewish Englishmen": The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Identity, 1840–1880
Major Professor: John F. Naylor

ABUSCH, RA'ANAN S. (Ph.D. 2004, Princeton University)
From Martyr to Mystic: "The Story of the Ten Martyrs," "Hekhalot Rabbati," and the Making of "Merkavah Mysticism"
Adviser: Peter Schäfer

AMENT, JONATHON (Ph.D. 2004, Brandeis University)
The Union for Traditional Judaism: A Case Study of Contemporary Challenges to a New Religious Movement
Adviser: Sylvia Barack Fishman

BALBUENA, MONIQUE RODRIGUES (Ph.D. 2003, University of California, Berkeley)
Diasporic Sephardic Identities: A Transnational Poetics of Jewish Languages
Chairs: Robert B. Alter; Chana Kronfeld

BEGLEITER, BEN (Ph.D. 2004, Yale University)
Imagining a Patriarch: Images of Abraham in Early Jewish and Christian Exegesis
Director: Steven Fraade

BELZER, TOBIN (Ph.D. 2004, Brandeis University)
Jewish Identity at Work: GenXers in Jewish Jobs
Adviser: Shulamit Reinharz

BLUTINGER, JEFFREY CHARLES (Ph.D. 2003, University of California, Los Angeles)
Writing for the Masses: Heinrich Graetz, the Popularization of Jewish History, and the Reception of National Judaism
Chair: David N. Myers

BRENNER, LISA NAOMI SILBERMAN (Ph.D. 2004, Columbia University)
The Jazz Singer's Legacy: The Racial Role-Play of African Americans and Jews in Twentieth-Century American Performance
Adviser: Robert O'Meally

BUHRING, KURT (Ph.D. 2003, University of Chicago)
Resistance and Redemption: Conceptions of God, Freedom, and Ethics in African American Theology and Jewish Theology
Adviser: Dwight N. Hopkins

CIVETTA, PETER J. REGIS (Ph.D. 2004, Cornell University)
Performing Sermons: An Ethnographic Exploration of Four Faith Traditions
Adviser: Robert Ascher

COPULSKY, JEROME ERIC (Ph.D. 2004, University of Chicago)
Between Exile and Redemption: Political Theology and the Shaping of Modern Jewish Thought
Adviser: Paul Mendes-Flohr

DOGAN, FEHMI (Ph.D. 2003, Georgia Institute of Technology)
The Role of Conceptual Diagrams in the Architectural Design Process: Case Studies of the First Unitarian Church by Louis Kahn, the Staatsgalerie by Stirling and Wilford Associates, and the Jewish Museum by Daniel Libeskind
Directors: Craig Zimring; Nancy Nersessian

EDDON, RALUCA M. (Ph.D. 2004, Yale University)
Israel, "A Light Unto the Nations"? Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, and the Founding of the Jewish State
Advisers: Seyla Benhabib; Steven B. Smith

FARGIONE, DANIELA (Ph.D. 2003, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Cynthia Ozick and Jewish Literature: A Reader (Italian and English text)
Director: Maria Tymoczko

FISHMAN, ALEISA R. (Ph.D. 2004, American University)
Keeping Up with the Goldbergs: Gender, Consumer Culture, and Jewish Identity in Suburban Nassau County, New York, 1946–1960
Chairs: Pamela S. Nadell; Karin Wulf

FOGELL, MELANIE (Ph.D. 2003, University of Calgary)
Broken Promises and Refigured Selves: Narrative and Jewish Identity
Adviser: Hans Smits

GAMBETTI, SANDRA (Ph.D. 2003, University of California, Berkeley)
The Alexandrian Riots of 38 C.E. and the Persecution of the Jews: A Historical Assessment
Chair: Erich S. Gruen

GAUDIN, GARY A. (Ph.D. 2003, McGill University)
Hope Becomes Command: Emil L. Fackenheim's "Destructive Recovery" of Hope in Post-Shoah Jewish Theology and Its Implications for Jewish-Christian Dialogue
Adviser: Douglas John Hall

GOLDBERG, IDANA (Ph.D. 2004, University of Pennsylvania)
Gender, Religion, and the Jewish Public Sphere in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America
Supervisor: Beth Wenger

GOLDBERG, SCOTT J. (Ph.D. 2004, New York University)
The Relationship between English (L1) and Hebrew (L2) Reading and Externalizing Behavior Amongst Orthodox Jewish Boys
Chair: Bruce D. Homer

GRAFF ZIVIN, ERIN (Ph.D. 2004, New York University)
The Wandering Signifier: Rhetorical Functions of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary
Adviser: Sylvia Molloy

GRANDE, STEVEN ELLIOT (Ph.D. 2004, University of Maryland, College Park)
Seeing the Canvas through the Eyes of the Painter: The Experience of Secular Jewish College Students
Chair: Marylu K. McEwen

GREENBERG, DEBRA (Ph.D. 2004, Fordham University)
Old Trees New Roots: The Resettlement Experience of Older Jews from the Former Soviet Union
Adviser: Irene Gutheil

GREENE, DANIEL (Ph.D. 2004, University of Chicago)
The Crisis of Jewish Freedom: The Menorah Association and...