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  • Dissertations in Jewish Studies
Barzel, Tamar (Ph.D. 2004, University of Michigan) “Radical Jewish Culture” Composer/Improvisers on New York City’s 1990s Downtown Scene Advisers: Judith O. Becker; Richard Crawford
Boone, Thomas Judge, III (Ph.D. 2007, Loyola University Chicago) Christology and Belief in the Ioudaios-Nouns of John: Rhetorical Self-Definition and the Ideological Breech between Johannine Christianity and First-Century c.e. Traditional Judaism Adviser: Urban C. von Wahlde
Chan, Sariah Yau-Wah (Ph.D. 2006, Dallas Theological Seminary) 1 Timothy 2:13–15 in the Light of Views concerning Eve and Childbirth in Early Judaism Adviser: Darrell L. Bock
Chong, Derek Michael (Ph.D. 2007, University of Illinois at Chicago) Reading the Bible in a Modern Orthodox Jewish Community: Quotation as a Means of Interpretive Alignment Adviser: Richard Cameron
Corning, Amy D. (Ph.D. 2007, University of Michigan) When the Past Is Another Country: The Impact of Emigration on Memories Adviser: James S. House; Howard Schuman
Cousineau, Jennifer Ann (Ph.D. 2006, University of California, Berkeley) Making the Northwest London Eruv, 1988–2003: The Construction, Representation, and Experience of a Sabbath Space Adviser: Dell Upton
Demsky, Jeffrey Scott (Ph.D. 2007, University of Florida) Going Public in Support: American Discursive Opposition to Nazi Anti-Semitism, 1933–1944 Advisers: Louise Newman, Mitchell Hart [End Page e1]
Finkin, Jordan David (Ph.D. 2006, University of California, Berkeley) “Jewish Discourse” and the Hebraic Subtext in the Development of Yiddish Literature and Culture Adviser: Chana Kronfeld
Fishman, Louis Andrew (Ph.D. 2007, University of Chicago) Palestine Revisited: Reassessing the Jewish and Arab National Movements, 1908–1914 Adviser: Rashid Khalidi
Friedberg, Edna Sarah (Ph.D. 2007, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Abandon Us Not in Our Old Age: The Origins of American Jewish Residential Services for the Elderly Adviser: Jack Wertheimer
Glanzberg-Krainin, Deborah (Ph.D. 2007, Temple University) The Hysterical Archive: Inscribing Jewish Memory in Two Contemporary Jewish American Women’s Memoirs Adviser: Laura Levitt
Gluhovsky, Inna Matov (Psy.D. 2007, Alliant International University, San Francisco Bay) Expectations of and Needs for Mental Health Services among Young Adults of Soviet Jewish Origin Adviser: Peter Chang
Godley, Nathan Charles (Ph.D. 2006, University of Iowa) “Almost-finished Frenchman”: The Jews of Algeria and the Question of French National Identity, 1830–1902 Adviser: Sarah Hanley
Gregerman, Adam (Ph.D. 2007, Columbia University) “Have you despised Jerusalem and Zion after you had chosen them?”: The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in Jewish and Christian Writings from the Land of Israel in Late Antiquity Adviser: Alan Segal
Halabi, Eddie (Ph.D. 2007, University of Toronto) The Transformation of the Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1917–1937: From Local and Islamic to Modern and Nationalist Celebration Adviser: James Reilly [End Page e2]
Hillman-McCord, Jessica (Ph.D. 2007, University of Colorado, Boulder) From the Shtetl to 42nd Street: Nostalgia and Postmemory in Jewish American Musicals, 1961–Today Adviser: Bud Coleman
Hirsch, Lily E. (Ph.D. 2006, Duke University) Imagining “Jewish Music” in Nazi Germany: The Berlin Juedischer Kulturbund and Musical Politics, 1933–1941 Adviser: Bryan Gilliam
Hoyer, Jennifer Miller (Ph.D. 2007, University of Minnesota) “The Space of Words”: Diaspora and Exile in the Work of Nelly Sachs Adviser: Leslie C. Morris
Immergut, Matthew (Ph.D. 2006, Drew University) Searching for Nature and the Sacred Jewish and Christian Seekers and Their Guests for and Constructions of the More-Than-Human World Adviser: Laurel Kearns
Jabareen, Ali Khaleel (Ed.D. 2007, Boston University) The Bagrut (Matriculation) Test-Score Gap between Arab Students and Their Jewish Counterparts in Israel Adviser: Mary H. Shann
Kann, Nitsa (Ph.D. 2006, University of California, Berkeley) Kabbaliterature: Post/Modern Hebrew Literature and its Kabbalistic Precursors Adviser: Robert Alter
Kaplan, Elissa A. (Ed.D. 2007, George Washington University) Analysis of Leadership in Three Jewish Congregational Schools Adviser: Virginia Roach
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