Recent Dissertations

Aaron, Scott T. (Ph.D. 2013, Loyola University, Chicago) A Grounded Theory of How Jewish Experiential Education Impacts the Identity Development of Jewish Emerging Adults Adviser: Noah Sobe

Acevedo-Field, Rafaela (Ph.D. 2012, University of California, Santa Barbara) Denunciation of Faith and Family: Crypto-Jews and the Inquisition in Seventeenth-Century Mexico Adviser: Sarah Cline

Adelstein, Rachel Louise (Ph.D. 2013, University of Chicago) Braided Voices: Women Cantors in Non-Orthodox Judaism Adviser: Philip V. Bohlman

Ager, Jason P. (Ph.D. 2013, Georgetown University) Heimat’s Sentry: Images of the Golem in Twentieth-Century Austrian Literature Adviser: Peter C. Pfeiffer

Alford-Fowler, Julia (D.M.A. 2013, Temple University) Yiddishkayt: A Concerto in the Context of Klezmer Music Adviser: Matthew Greenbaum

Alper, Becka A. (Ph.D. 2012, Purdue University) Does Religious Geography Affect Identity? The Impact of Local Group Size Characteristics on Felt Outsiderness and Jewish Identity Adviser: Daniel V. A. Olson

Anderson, Daniel Paul, Jr. (Ph.D. 2012, Case Western Reserve University) The Ivory Shtetl: The University and the Postwar Jewish Imagination Adviser: Judith Oster

Astashkevich, Irina (Ph.D. 2013, Brandeis University) The Pogroms in Ukraine in 1917–1920: An Alternate Universe Adviser: Antony Polonsky

Avineri, Netta Rose (Ph.D. 2012, University of California, Los Angeles) Heritage Language Socialization Practices in Secular Yiddish Educational Contexts: The Creation of a Metalinguistic Community Adviser: Charles Goodwin

Ayeni, Ayodele (Dr.Th. 2012, Dominican University College) The Antithesis "Neither Jew nor Greek" in Gal. 3:28a and Pauline Corpus: Its Context, Application, Meaning and Origin Adviser: Michel Gourgues

Azar, Michael G. (Ph.D. 2013, Fordham University) Exegeting the Jews: The Reception of the Johannine Ioudaioi in Early Christianity Advisers: Benjamin H. Dunning; Joseph T. Lienhard

Bahar, I. Izzet (Ph.D. 2102, University of Pittsburgh) Turkey and the Rescue of Jews during the Nazi Era: A Reappraisal of Two Cases; German-Jewish Scientists in Turkey and Turkish Jews in Occupied France Adviser: Adam Shear

Bailis, Beverly (Ph.D. 2012, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Fantasies of Modernity: Representations of the Jewish Female Body in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Hebrew Fiction Adviser: Alan Mintz

Beaman-Kogan, Joshua P. (Psy.D. 2013, Adler School of Professional Psychology) Pushing Away: Exploring the Relationship between Jewish Ethnic Identity, Anti-Semitism, and Social Interest Adviser: Leigh Johnson-Migalski

Benayon, Marcus (Ph.D. 2012, University of Toronto) Special Education Instruction in the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox and Hassidic Communities in Toronto Adviser: Michel Ferrari

Beneduce, Felice Italo (Ph.D. 2012, University of Connecticut) La Falla: Twentieth-Century Jewish Italian Literature of the Fantastic Adviser: Norma Bouchard

Bensadon, Deborah Anne (Ph.D. 2012, University of Pittsburgh) Modernity and Crisis: The Writing of "the Jew" in Twentieth-Century Trans-Atlantic Literature Adviser: Juan Duchesne Winter

Ben Shitrit, Lihi (Ph.D. 2012, Yale University) Frames of Exception: Women’s Activism in Religious-Political Movements Adviser: Ellen Lust

Berkovitch, Tal (Ph.D. 2013, New York University) Ivrit B’ivrit: A Study of Jewish Day Schools’ Preparation of Students in Early Childhood for Proficiency in Hebrew Adviser: Harold Wechsler

Bindiger, Alissa (Psy.D. 2013, St. John’s University, New York) Perceived Therapist Effectiveness: An Examination of an Orthodox Jewish Adolescent Sample Adviser: Marlene Sotelo-Dynega

Blumenthal, Helaine Debra (Ph.D. 2012, University of California, Berkeley) Fourteen Convicted, Three Million Condemned: The Slansky Affair and the Reconstitution of Jewish Identities after the Holocaust Adviser: John Connelly

Bogorad, Joseph S. (Ph.D. 2011, Pacifica Graduate Institute) Cultivating the Still Point: A Study of Contemplative Practices in Buddhism, Catholicism, and Jewish Mysticism, with a Depth Psychological Perspective Adviser: Patrick Mahaffey

Bolz, Stephanie L. (Ph.D. 2012, University of Michigan) Rabbinic Discourse on Divination in the Babylonian Talmud Advisers: Gabriele Boccaccini; Richard Kalmin

Bredstein, Andrey Alexander (Ph.D. 2013, University of Texas, Austin) Uri-Nisn Gnesin: Between the Worlds, Belonging to Both Adviser: Karen Grumberg

Bretan, Gail Helene (Ph.D. 2013, University of North Carolina, Greensboro) Jewishly-Informed: Mature Adult Service-Learning Adviser: H. Svi Shapiro

Broida, Marian W. (Ph.D. 2013, Emory University) Forestalling Doom: "Apotropaic Intercession" in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East Adviser: Brent A. Strawn

Brownstein, David Y. (Psy.D. 2012, Marywood University) The Roles of Personality, Parenting Styles, and Values...