Recent Dissertations in Jewish Studies

Recent Dissertations

AITKEN, JEFF (Ph.D. 2006, California Institute of Integral Studies)
Opening Space for Shalom: An Indigenous and Organic Inquiry of Open Space Technology
Adviser: Jurgen Kremer

ARANOFF, DEENA (Ph.D. 2006, Columbia University)
In Pursuit of the Holy Tongue: Jewish Conceptions of Hebrew in the Sixteenth Century
Adviser: Wim Smit

BEMPORAD, ELISSA (Ph.D. 2006, Stanford University)
Red Star on the Jewish Street: The Reshaping of Jewish Life in Soviet Minsk, 1917–1939
Adviser: Steven J. Zipperstein

BEN-CHORIN, GOLAN (Ed.D. 2006, Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Educating for Pluralism from a Jewish Perspective in an Israeli Institution of Informal Education
Adviser: Barry Holtz

BERGER, KENNETH E. (D.H.L. 2006, Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Issues and Developments in the Liturgy of Ashkenaz during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: The Arvit Service
Adviser: Menahem Schmelzer

BLOOMBERG, LINDA DALE (Ed.D. 2006, Teachers College, Columbia University)
Adult Learning and Distance Education: A Case Study of a Learning Community in Jewish Higher Education
Adviser: Victoria J. Marsick

BRUCH, MIA SARA (Ph.D. 2006, Stanford University)
The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man: American Jews and American Religious Pluralism, 1939–1960
Adviser: Steven J. Zipperstein

DAIGLE, JONATHAN R. (Ph.D. 2006, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
United States Realism and the (Conceptual) Problem of Race: Realists and Race Science from 1877 to 1905
Adviser: Thomas Schaub

DAVIS, MARNI (Ph.D. 2006, Emory University)
"On the Side of Liquor": American Jews and the Politics of Alcohol, 1870–1936
Adviser: Jonathan Prude

FEIN, LYONE SAMI (Ph.D. 2006, University of Iowa)
Spiritual Development of the Archetypal Feminine in the Sacred Literatures of Judaism and Hinduism: Damayanti and Tamar
Adviser: Frederick M. Smith

FERNHEIMER, JANICE WENDI (Ph.D. 2006, University of Texas at Austin)
The Rhetoric of Black Jewish Identity Construction in America and Israel: 1964–1972
Advisers: Linda Ferreira-Buckley; Patricia Roberts-Miller

HITZHUSEN, GREGORY ERNEST (Ph.D. 2006, Cornell University)
Religion and the Environment: The Contributions of Christianity and Judaism to Environmental Ethics and Education
Adviser: Richard A. Baer, Jr.

HOLLANDER, ETHAN J. (Ph.D. 2006, University of California, San Diego)
Implementing and Subverting the Final Solution in Nazi-Occupied Europe
Adviser: Ellen Comisso

JASSEN, ALEXANDER P. (Ph.D. 2006, New York University)
Mediating the Divine: Prophecy and Revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism
Adviser: Lawrence H. Schiffman

JONES, KENNETH RAYMOND (Ph.D. 2006, University of California, Berkeley)
Provincial Reactions to Roman Imperialism: The Aftermath of the Jewish Revolt, A.D. 66–70
Adviser: Erich S. Gruen

KAMINSKY, HOWARD GARY (Ed.D. 2005, Teachers College, Columbia University)
Traditional Jewish Perspectives on Peace and Interpersonal Conflict Resolution
Adviser: John Kuentzel

KOZODOY, MAUD NATASHA (Ph.D. 2006, Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
A Study of the Life and Works of Profiat Duran
Adviser: Raymond P. Scheindlin

LASSER, CATHERINE JEAN (Ph.D. 2006, Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Ethics through the Lens of Jewish Thought
Adviser: Neil Gillman

LEVIN, CHAVIVA (Ph.D. 2006, New York University)
Jewish Conversion to Christianity in Medieval Northern Europe Encountered and Imagined, 1100–1300
Advisers: Robert Chazan; Penelope D. Johnson

LORENZ-MEYER, ELIZABETH ANN (Ph.D. 2006, University of Minnesota)
Gender, Ethnicity, and Space: Jews in Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1900–1930
Advisers: Sara M. Evans; Lisa Norling

PECK, JASON MICHAEL (Ph.D. 2006, University of Minnesota)
"From the Transcendental to the Particular": German-Jewish Philosophy in the Late Eighteenth Century
Adviser: Jochen Schulte-Sasse

PETRESCU, CORINA L. (Ph.D. 2006, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Allen Gewalten zum Trutz sich erhalten": Models of Subversive Spaces in National Socialist Germany
Adviser: Klaus L. Berghahn

ROTSTEIN, EVELYN LEVY (Ed.D. 2006, Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Connection, Commitment, and Community: What Motivates Teenagers from Interfaith Families to Continue Post Bar/Bat Mitzvah Jewish Education?
Adviser: Carol Ingall

SCHACHTER, ALLISON HOPE (Ph.D. 2006, University of California, Berkeley)
Illusions of Home: The Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe in Hebrew and Yiddish Literature
Adviser: Robert B. Alter

SHERWOOD, JESSIE (Ph...