Recent Dissertations

Bolotnikov, Alexander V. (Ph.D. 2013, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) Vekatav Lah Sefer Keritut: A Synoptic Study of Exegetical Techniques and the Development of Halakhic Hermeneutical Traditions Derived from Deuteronomy 24:1–4
Advisers: Richard Sarason, Mark Washofsky

Dekel, Yael (Ph.D. 2014, New York University) The Poetics of Silence and the Making of the National Subject in S. Yizhar’s War Fiction
Adviser: Yael S. Feldman

Duffy, Coreen S. (D.M.A. 2014, University of Southern California) Synagogue Choral Music of Nineteenth-Century Vienna, Paris, and Berlin: Its Repertoire and History
Adviser: Nick Strimple

Eisenstat, Yedida Chaya (Ph.D. 2014, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Rashi’s Midrashic Anthology: The Torah Commentary Re-Examined
Advisers: Robert Harris, Burton Visotzky

Efthymiou, Andrea Rosso (Ph.D. 2015, City University of New York) Voices from on High: Rhetorical Education in a Jewish Women’s Writing Center
Adviser: Jessica Yood

Forte, Valeria (Ph.D. 2014, University of Texas at Dallas) From Rome to Jerusalem: The Quest for Cosmic Revelation: Jewish Mysticism in The Divine Comedy
Adviser: David Patterson

Frunchak, Svitlana (Ph.D. 2014, University of Toronto) The Making of Soviet Chernivtsi: National ‘‘Reunification,’’ World War II, and the Fate of Jewish Czernowitz in Postwar Ukraine
Adviser: Lynne Viola

Gelman, Ira (Ph.D. 2014, Widener University) The Impact of Gender on How Adolescent Jewish Americans Experience Their Identity as a Minority in the United States
Adviser: Paula T. Silver

Goni, Jose (Ph.D. 2015, City University of New York) El transnacionalismo y la identidad judia en la obra de Isaac Goldemberg
Adviser: Malva E. Filer

Kaunfer, Eliezer Gershon (D.H.L 2014, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Interpreting Jewish Liturgy: The Literary-Intertext Method
Advisers: Burton L. Visotzky

Kenter, Barry Allen (D.H.L. 2014, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Table for One or Shulhan Ihu ’Iqra: The Medieval Jewish Table
Adviser: Eitan Fishbane

Kirsch, Shlomit (Psy.D. 2014, Wright Institute) An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Relationship between Trauma and Culture in the Jewish Israeli Population
Adviser: Jerry Diller

Langille, Timothy (Ph.D. 2014, University of Toronto) Reshaping the Persistent Past: A Study of Collective Trauma and Memory in Second Temple Judaism
Adviser: Hindy Najman

Love, Donald Roe, III (Ph.D. 2014, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) The Literary Function of John 2–4
Adviser: Andreas J. Kostenberger

Mansen, Frances Dora (Ph.D. 2015, Boston University) Desecrated Covenant, Deprived Burial: Threats of Non-Burial in the Hebrew Bible
Adviser: Katheryn Pfisterer Darr

Miller, Moshe Y. (Ph.D. 2014, Yeshiva University) Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Nineteenth-Century German Orthodoxy on Judaism’s Attitude toward Non-Jews
Adviser: David Berger

Montague, Kristen M. (Psy.D. 2012, Antioch University Seattle) The Effects of the Holocaust for Six Polish Catholic Survivors and Their Descendants
Adviser: Philip Cushman

Nahme, Paul Egan (Ph.D. 2013, University of Toronto) From Critical to Prophetic Idealism: Ethics, Law, and Religion in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen
Advisers: David Novak, Robert Gibbs

Newman, Chayim (Ph.D. 2014, Yeshiva University) The Relationships between Spirituality and Religiosity, Trait Mindfulness, and Health Outcomes in a Jewish Community Sample
Adviser: Vance Zeman

Sager, Tara A. (Ph.D. 2015, Fairleigh Dickinson University) A Comparison Study of Family Relationships in Jewish Families Involved and Uninvolved with the Holocaust
Advisers: Stefanie Ulrich, Lana Tiersky

Schwebel, Paula L. (Ph.D. 2012, University of Toronto) Walter Benjamin’s Monadology
Advisers: Robert Gibbs, Rebecca Comay

Sinclair, Peri Danit (D.H.L. 2014, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) When Rabbis Conceive Women: Physiology and Gestation in Leviticus Rabbah Chapter 14
Adviser: Burton L. Visotzky

Wise, Michael Owen (Ph.D. 2012, University of Minnesota) Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea: A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents
Adviser: George A. Sheets