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Letter from Scholars Supporting Professor Derek J. Penslar

We—scholars of Jewish history, Israeli society, antisemitism, the Holocaust and related fields based at universities in Israel, North America and Europe—voice our full support for the recent decision by the interim President of Harvard University, Prof. Alan Garber, to appoint Prof. Derek J. Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as co-chair of Harvard University’s new Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism.

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24 January 2024

Letter from Scholars Supporting Professor Derek J. Penslar

We—scholars of Jewish history, Israeli society, antisemitism, the Holocaust and related fields based at universities in Israel, North America and Europe—voice our full support for the recent decision by the interim President of Harvard University, Prof. Alan Garber, to appoint Prof. Derek J. Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as co-chair of Harvard University’s new Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism.

A pathbreaking scholar who has written extensively about the social and political histories of modern Jewish society and the State of Israel as well as questions related to antisemitism, Prof. Penslar is perfectly suited to help lead Harvard’s new Task Force on Combating Antisemitism at this critical moment in Jewish history.

 

Over the past few decades, Prof. Penslar has proven to be an enthusiastic supporter and invaluable interlocutor for generations of scholars based in Israel and other countries. In both his role as the former co-editor of the Journal of Israeli History as well as his positions as a professor of Jewish and Israeli history at Indiana University, the University of Toronto, Oxford University and Harvard University, Prof. Penslar has repeatedly gone out of his way to assist scholars from Israel and around the world, either by reading and reviewing their work, promoting exchange between scholars based in different countries, or by acting as a trusted academic mentor.

 

During this period, Prof. Penslar has repeatedly served as a visiting scholar at various universities in Israel where he has presented, taught and engaged with hundreds of students, faculty and community members in both English and in Hebrew. Indeed, it is hard to think of many North American academics who have contributed more to the development of the study of Jewish history and of Israeli society over the past few decades than Derek Penslar. In 2022, Prof. Penslar was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for Israel Studies for precisely these reasons.

 

The murderous attack by Hamas against Israel and its citizens on October 7th 2023 and the ensuing deadly war are yielding still incalculable effects on Israelis and Palestinians. In this difficult period of social, political and existential uncertainty and pervasive anxiety regarding what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century, there are few people better prepared to address these and related challenges with a unique combination of historical understanding and interpersonal empathy than Prof. Derek Penslar of Harvard University.

 

For these and other reasons, we grant our fullest support to Prof. Derek Penslar as co-chair of the new Task Force on Combating Antisemitism at Harvard University. As part of this support, we are happy to contribute our academic experience and expertise to its inquiry and recommendations.

Signatories

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David Abraham

Professor, University of Miami School of Law

Uriel Abulof

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University; Department of Government, Cornell University

Howard Tzvi Adelman

Retired Director of Jewish Studies Program, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Emanuel Adler

Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto

Irit Aharony

Senior Preceptor in Modern Hebrew, The Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University

Samer Alatout

Sewell-Buttel Professor, Associate Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Phyllis Albert

PhD Local Affiliate, Center for European Studies Harvard University

Natalia Aleksiun

Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Florida

Dr. Laura Almagor

Assistant Professor of Political History, Utrecht University

Gur Alroey

Professor of Israel Studies, Rector, University of Haifa

Joyce Antler

Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Emerita
Brandeis University

Dr. Nir Arielli

Associate Professor of International History, University of Leeds

Ofer Ashkenazi

Associate Professor of History, Director, Koebner-Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

David Assaf

Professor, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University

Leora Auslander

Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization, Departments of Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity and History, University of Chicago

Dr. Cornelia Aust

Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History, Essen

Bernard Avishai

Visiting Professor of Government, Darmouth College, Adjunct Professor of Business at the Hebrew University

Orit Avishai

Professor of Sociology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Fordham University

Eugene M. Avrutin

Tobor Professor of Jewish History; Director, Program in Jewish Culture & Society,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Carol Bakhos

Professor of Religion, and Jewish Studies, UCLA

Avriel Bar-Levav

Professor, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel

Eitan Bar-Yosef

Associate Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Oren Barak

Maurice B. Hexter Chair in International Relations – Middle East Studies & Professor of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jacob Barnai

Professor Emeritus, Haifa University

Michael Barnett

University Professor, George Washington University.

Prof. Israel Bartal

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, Israel

Maya Barzilai

Professor of Hebrew Literature and Jewish Culture, University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Orit Bashkin

Professor, University of Chicago

Leora Batnitzky

Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of Religion,
Princeton University

Dr. Ela Bauer

Kibbutzim College Tel Aviv

Albert I. Baumgarten

Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish History, Bar Ilan University

Johannes Becke

Professor for Israel and Middle East Studies, Heidelberg University for Jewish Studies

Stacy N. Beckwith

Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Carleton College

Dr Moshe Behar

Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Manchester

Elissa Bemporad

Professor of History, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Avner Ben-Amos

Professor Emeritus, School of Education, Tel-Aviv University

Jonathan Ben-Dov

Professor of Bible, Tel Aviv University

Dr. Peter Bergamin

Lecturer in Oriental Studies, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Doris L. Bergen

Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto

Joel Berkowitz

Professor of English and Director, Stahl Center for Jewish Studies

Beth Berkowitz

Professor of Religion and Chair of Jewish Studies, Barnard College

Joel Berkowitz

Professor of English and Director, Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Michael Berkowitz

Professor of Modern Jewish History, Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London

Nathaniel Berman

Religious Studies Dept., Brown University

Lila Corwin Berman

Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History, Temple University

Lila Corwin Berman

Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History, Temple University

Asher D. Biemann

Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, University of Virginia

Dr Leora Bilsky

Full Professor at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, and the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University

David Blackbourn

Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair and Professor of History Emeritus, Vanderbilt University

Dr. Etan Bloom

Sapir College, Israel

Dr. Jeffrey Blutinger

Barbara and Ray Alpert Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Director, Jewish Studies Program Professor, History Department California State University, Long Beach

Y. Michal Bodemann

Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto

Dr. Matan Boord

The Center for Jewish Studies,
Harvard University

Jonathan Boyarin

Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Departments of Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University

Zachary Braiterman

Professor of Religion, Syracuse University

Benjamin Braude

Associate Professor of History, Boston College; Research Associate, Department of Religion, Smith College

Francesca Bregoli

Joseph and Oro Halegua Chair in Greek and Sephardic Jewish Studies, Associate Professor of History Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Director, Center for Jewish Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Michael Brenner

Distinguished Professor of History and Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies, American University, Washington DC; Professor of Jewish History and Culture, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Naomi Brenner

Associate Professor
Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages & Cultures, The Ohio State University

Jay Yair Brodbar

PhD former Center for Modern Jewish Studies Brandies and Jerusalem Fellows.

Adriana M. Brodsky

Professor of History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Dr. Rivka Brot

The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University

Robert Brym

SD Clark Professor of Sociology Emeritus and Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto

Dr. Rhona Burns

Postdoctoral fellow, The Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University

Marc Caplan

(APL) Professor of Jewish Studies, Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf

Samuel P. Catlin

Irving M. and Marilyn C. Shuman Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought, University at Buffalo (SUNY)

J. H. (Yossi) Chajes

Wolfson Professor of Jewish Thought, Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa

Meir Chazan

Associate Professor, Department of Jewish History, Head of the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel, Tel Aviv University

Joshua L. Cherniss

Associate Professor, Department of Government,Georgetown University

Lucy Chester

Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, University of Colorado Boulder

Geoffrey Claussen

Professor of Religious Studies and Lori and Eric Sklut Professor in Jewish Studies, Elon University

Professor Hillel Cohen

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Richard I. Cohen

Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Yinon Cohen

Yerushalmi Prof. of Israel & Jewish Studies, Department of Sociology, Columbia University

Mark R. Cohen

Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

Dr. Yisrael Elliot Cohen

Harvard College, 1964

Prof. Kobi Cohen-Hattab

Chair, The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar Ilan University

Manuela Consonni

Professor, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Eli Cook

Head of General History Department, University of Haifa

Giovanna D'Amico

Department of Ancient and Modern Civilisations, Università degli Studi di Messina

Yael Darr

Professor, Tel Aviv University

Jeremy Dauber

Atran Professor of Yiddish Literature, Language, and Culture; Director Emeritus, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University

Dr. Assaf David

Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the Forum for Regional Thinking

Avital Davidovitch-Eshed

Senior Lecturer, Jewish Philosophy and Talmud Department & Women and Gender Studies Program, Tel Aviv University

Jonathan Decter

Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic Studies, Brandeis University

Jonathan Dekel-Chen

Rabbi Edward Sandrow in Soviet & East European Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Nathaniel Deutsch

Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, Distinguished Professor of History, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, The University of California, Santa Cruz

Havi Dreifuss

Professor, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University

Lois Dubin

Professor Emerita of Religion, Smith College

Dr. Isser Dubinsky

University of Toronto, Canada

Arie M. Dubnov

Associate Professor of History & Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies, The George Washington University

Noëmie Duhaut

Lecturer in Modern European Jewish History, Parkes Institute and History Department, University of Southampton

Prof. Dr. Joanna Dyduch

Chair of the Department of Israel, Institute of the Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Glenn Dynner

Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies, Director of the Bennett Center, Fairfield University

John Efron

Koret Chair in Jewish History, Department of History, University of California-Berkeley

Dr. Yonit Efron

The Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel

Jacques Ehrenfreund

Professor, Chaire d'histoire des Juifs et du judaisme, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Jason von Ehrenkrook

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston

Lily Eilan

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University

Prof. David Engel

New York University

Dr. Elia Etkin

Department of Israel Studies, University of Haifa

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi

Professor Emerita, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Philip Alexander FBA

Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Manchester, Former President, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Professor Bryan Cheyette FEA

University of Reading, U.K.

Shmuel Feiner

Chair, The Historical Society of Israel, Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish History, Bar Ilan University

Marjorie Feld

Professor of History, Babson College

David Feldman

Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Professor of History, Birkbeck, University of London

Sara Feldman

Preceptor in Yiddish, Harvard University

Dr. Maria Ferenc

PhD, University of Wroclaw, Poland

Eugene Finkel

Kenneth H. Keller Associate Professor of International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University

Stefanie Fischer

Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA), Berlin

Louis Fishman

Associate Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY

David Fishman

Jewish Theological Seminary

Talya Fishman

Associate Professor of Medieval & Early Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania

Sam Fleischacker

LAS Distinguished Professor of Philosophy,
University of Illinois-Chicago

Anna Foa

Professor Emerita of modern History, Università Sapienza, Roma

Steven D. Fraade

Mark Taper Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Yale University

Ruth A. Frager

Professor Emeritus, Department of History, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

ChaeRan Freeze

Frances and Max Elkan Chair in Modern Jewish History, Brandeis University

Michal R. Friedman

Assistant Teaching Professor & Jack Buncher Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University

Dr Yoav Galai

Lecturer in International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London

Dr. Michael Gherman

Research Fellow at Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

Ben Gidley

Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and board member of the British Association of Jewish Studies

Shai Ginsburg

Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Maria Laura Giordano

Professor, Humanities Department, Abat Oliba University, CEU, Barcelona

Dr. Nora Gold

Former Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Toronto

Sylvie Anne Goldberg

Professor emerita, Ehess, (Advanced School for Social Studies), Paris

Prof. Amos Goldberg

The Jonah M. Machover Chair in Holocaust Studies, Head of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Semion Goldin

Researcher, The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Karla Goldman

Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work and Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan

​Amir Goldstein

Associate Professor of Israeli History, Tel-Hai College

Viktor Golinets

Professor for Hebrew Linguistics, Heidelberg University for Jewish Studies

Peter E. Gordon

Harvard University

Dr. Jaclyn Granick

Senior Lecturer in Modern Jewish History, Cardiff University

Abigail Green

Professor of Modern European History, University of Oxford

Rachel L. Greenblatt

Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College

Jonathan Gribetz

Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies Department and Program in Judaic Studies, Princeton University

Sarit Kattan Gribetz

Associate Professor of Theology and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, Fordham University

Ronnie Grinberg

Assistant Professor, Department of History &
Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies, University of Oklahoma

Ronnie Grinberg

Assistant Professor Department of History & Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies, University of Oklahoma

Jeffrey Grossman

Associate Professor Germanic Languages and Literatures Program in Jewish Studies and former interim director, University of Virginia

Rebekka Grossmann

Assistant Professor of History, Leiden University

Atina Grossmann

Professor of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Cooper Union, NY

Wolf Gruner

Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History; Founding Director, USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Dr. David Guedj

Senior Lecturer, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Head, Misgav Yerushalayim Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

François Guesnet

Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College London

Professor Yael Guilat

Art History and Visual Culture, Oranim College of Education

Danny Gutwein

Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa

Aviva Halamish

Professor of Israel Studies, The Open University of Israel

Liora R. Halperin

Professor of International Studies and History & Distinguished Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington

Dr. Sara Halpern

Visiting Assistant Professor of History, St. Olaf College

Hanan Harif

Lecturer, Tel-Hai Academic College

Dr. Shelley Harten

Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

Professor Benjamin Hary

NYU and Director of NYU Tel Aviv

Galit Hasan-Rokem

Professor emerita Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Alma Rachel Heckman

Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies and Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Daniel Kupfert Heller

Senior Lecturer, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University

Dr. Dana Herman

Associate Director, American Jewish Archives, HUC-JIR, Cincinnati

Susannah Heschel

Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor, Dartmouth College

Dr. Jenny Hestermann

Christhard Hoffmann

Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, University of Bergen/Norway

Christhard Hoffmann

Professor Emeritus in Modern History, University of Bergen and Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies

Dana Hollander

Associate Professor
Department of Religious Studies,
Associate Member, Department of Philosophy
Member, MA Program in Cultural Studies & Critical Theory, McMaster University

Hannah Holtschneider

Professor of Contemporary Jewish Cultural History, University of Edinburgh.
Director of Research, School of Divinity.

Dr. Gene Homel

Liberal Studies, British Columbia Institute of Technology

Dan Honig

Associate Professor, McCourt School, Georgetown University Harvard Alum (PhD in Public Policy, 2015)

Brian Horowitz

Sizeler Family Chair of Jewish Studies, Department of Jewish Studies

Sara R. Horowitz

Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities and former Director of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University

John Huddlestun

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Dept. of Religious Studies, College of Charleston (SC)

Dr. Curtis Hutt

Professor of Religious Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Prof. Iris Idelson-Shein

Department of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Dr. Ofri Ilany

Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Eva Illouz

Directrice d’Etudes, EHESS

Elizabeth E. Imber

Assistant Professor of History, Michael and Lisa Leffell Chair in Modern Jewish History, Clark University

Prof. Sarah Imhoff

Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Hilit Israel

Dept. of Religion, Rutgers University

Abigail Jacobson

Associate Professor in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tomaz Jardim

Associate Professor of History at Toronto Metropolitan University

Dr. Karma Ben Johanan

Department of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Alison Frank Johnson

Professor, Department of History, Harvard University

Jenna Weissman Joselit

Charles E. Smith Professor of Judaic Studies & Professor of History, George Washington University

Jonathan Judaken

Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought, Washington University in St. Louis

Robin E. Judd

Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University

Monica Juneja

Professor of Global Art History, University of Heidelberg

Mayer Juni

Bruce Slovin Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies Department of History, Cornell University

Jason Kalman

Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature and Interpretation at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati

Ivan Kalmar

Professor, Department of Anthropology Faculty, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy,
University of Toronto

Brett Ashley Kaplan

Professor and Conrad Humanities Scholar in the Program in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Eran Kaplan

Goldman Professor in Israel Studies, San Francisco State University

Yosef Kaplan

Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, member of the Israeli Academy for Sciences and Humanities

Dr. Tamir Karkason

Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg

Nahum Karlinsky

Visiting Associate Professor

The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies and History Department,
Boston University

Jonathan Karp

Associate Professor,
Judaic Studies & History Departments,
Binghamton University, SUNY

Samuel D. Kassow

Charles H. Northam Professor of History, Trinity College

Prof. Ethan Katz

Director of Jewish Studies, UC-Berkeley, Co-founder, Antisemitism Education Initiative, UC-Berkeley

Anthony D. Kauders

Professor, History Programme, School of Humanities, Keele University

Kerwin Kaye

Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies,
Wesleyan University

Alexander Kaye

Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Chair in Israel Studies, Brandeis University

Audrey Kichelewski

Associate Professor Department of History Strasbourg University Co-Editor of Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah

Anat Kidron

Associate Professor of Israel studies and Education,Tel Hai Academic College

Hillel J. Kieval

Goldstein Professor Emeritus of Jewish History and Thought, Washington University in St. Louis

Kamil Kijek

Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies Department, University of Wrocław

Menachem Klein

Professor Emeritus, Bar Ilan University Israel

Gil Klein

Associate Professor of Theological Studies and Jewish Studies, Loyola Marymount University

Rebekah Klein-Pejšová

Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Purdue University

Christian Kleindienst

Doctoral Researcher, Institute for the Study of Culture, Leipzig University

Anna Koch

Lecturer in Modern German History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London

Jeffrey Kopstein

Professor of Political Science University of California, Irvine

Arie Krampf

Associate Professor, Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo

Dr. Rachel Kranson

Director, Jewish Studies Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Jonathan Krasner

Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Associate Professor of Jewish Education Research, Brandeis University

Dr. Joshua Krug

Sommerfreund Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien in Heidelberg, Germany

Joachim Kurtz

Chair of Intellectual History, Director, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University

Tony Kushner

James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish relations, Parkes Institute and History Department, University of Southampton

Cecile E. Kuznitz

Harvard class of ‘89, Patricia Ross Weis '52 Chair in Jewish History and Culture, Bard College

Thomas Kühne

Strassler Colin Flug Professor of Holocaust History, Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University

Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz

Tim Langille

Associate Teaching Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University

Smadar Lavie

Professor Emerita, University of California at Davis

Hagit Lavsky

Professor Emerita, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Fred Lazin

Professor Emeritus, Ben Gurion University, Israel

Nitzan Lebovic

Professor of History, Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies, Lehigh University

Dr. Shmuel Lederman

The University of Haifa and the Open University of Israel

Matthias Lehmann

Professor of History, University of Cologne

Philipp Lenhard

DAAD Professor of History and German, University of California, Berkeley

Paul Lerner

Professor and Chair, Van Hunnick History Department,
Director, Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies,
University of Southern California

Mark Leuchter

Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism, Director of Jewish Studies, Temple University Department of Religion

Alan Levenson

Schusterman/Josey Chair of Jewish History
Director, Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies, Department of History

Giovanni Levi

Professor emeritus of History, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

Geoffrey Levin

Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies, Emory University

Dr. Jamie Levin

Associate Professor, Political Science,
St. Francis Xavier University
Nova Scotia, Canada

Molly Myerowitz Levine

Professor of Classics, Howard University Washington, DC

Simon Levis-Sullam

Associate Professor of Modern History, Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Laura S. Levitt

Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies and Gender, Temple University

Amit Levy

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Israel Studies, University of Haifa

Lital Levy

Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Princeton University

D Gershon Lewental

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma, Departments of History and International & Area Studies

Keith Lewinstein

Professor of History,
Bridgewater State University

Dr. Tatjana Lichtenstein

Associate Professor Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin

Andrea Lieber

Sophia Ava Asbell Chair of Judaic Studies, Dickinson College

Laura S. Lieber

Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University; incoming Chair of Transregional Religious History of Late Antiquity at the University of Regensburg (Germany)

Assaf Likhovski

Professor, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University

Anna Lipphardt

Professor for Cultural Anthropology, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg

Sara Lipton

Chair, Department of History, Professor of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Inbar Livnat

Post Doctoral Fellow, MALI, BGRI, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Dr. Sharon Livne

The Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem

Zachary Lockman

Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and of History,
New York University

James Loeffler

Felix Posen Professor of Jewish History, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Susan Loewenthal Lourenco

Berlin, Germany

Howard Lupovitch

Professor of History
Wayne State University

Pawel Maciejko

Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University

Ula Madej-Krupitski

Assistant Professor, Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University

Shaul Magid

Distinguished Fellow, Dartmouth College

Daniel Mahla

Senior Lecturer, Haifa Center for German and European Studies/ Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa

Charles H. Manekin

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, The University of Maryland

Rachel Manekin

Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies, University of Maryland

Dr. Maya Mark

The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Dr. Roni Beer Marx

The Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel

Tamar Mayer

Robert R. Churchill Professor Emerita of Geoscience Middlebury College

Devi Mays

Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Natan Meir

Lorry I. Lokey Professor of Judaic Studies, The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, Portland State University

Richard Menkis

Associate Professor of Jewish History Department of History, The University of British Columbia

David A. Meola

J. William Fulbright Scholar, Director, Jewish & Holocaust Studies Program, Fanny & Bert Meisler Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of South Alabama.
Member, Alabama Holocaust Commission and Consultant, Southern Jewish Historical Society.

Kobi Metzer

Alexander Brody Emeritus Professor of Economic History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Former President of the Open University of Israel.

Kobi Metzer

Alexander Brody Emeritus Professor of Economic History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former President of the Open University of Israel

Michael A. Meyer

Professor of Jewish History emeritus, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Omer Michaelis

Associate Professor, Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud, Tel Aviv University

Tony Michels

George L. Mosse Professor of American Jewish History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Paul Milgram

Professor Emeritus,
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering,
University of Toronto

Michael L. Miller

Nationalism Studies Program / Jewish Studies Program, Central European University, Vienna, Austria

Shana Minkin

Research Associate Professor of International and Global Studies, The University of the South

Guy Miron

Professor, The Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel

Yehudah Mirsky

Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University

Shaul Mitelpunkt

Senior Lecturer in Modern History, the University of York, UK

Daniel Monk

George R. and Myra T. Cooley Professor of Peace & Conflict Studies and Professor of Geography, Colgate University

Miriam Eve Mora

Director of Academic and Public Programs at the Center for Jewish History in New York City

Elke Morlok

Jewish Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Leslie Morris

Professor of German and Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota

Amos Morris-Reich

Professor, Director of The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University

Kenneth B. Moss

Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History and the College and Director, Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago

Georges J. D. Moyal

Professor of Philosophy, Glendon College of York University, Toronto, Canada

Samuel Moyn

Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History, Yale University

Eva Mroczek

Associate Professor, Religious Studies, UC Davis, incoming Simon and Riva Spatz Chair in Jewish Studies, Dalhousie University

Prof. Dr. Frederek Musall

Chair for Jewish Studies and Comparative Study of Religions, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Würzburg/Germany.

Sebastian Musch

Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica, Harvard University

David N. Myers

Distinguished Professor and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, UCLA

Paul E. Nahme

Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies, Brown University

Moshe Naor

Department of Israel Studies, University of Haifa

Benjamin Nathans

Alan Charles Kors Term Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Svetlana Natkovich

The Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa

Eyal Naveh

Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Tel Aviv University

Rafael Rachel Neis

Professor, History and Judaic Studies Director, Interdepartmental Program in Ancient History University of Michigan

Hillel Newman

Professor, Department of Jewish History and Biblical Studies, University of Haifa

Maren R. Niehoff

Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Dr. Ronit Nikolsky

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Brian Ogren

Anna Smith Fine Professor of Judaic Studies, Chair, Department of Religion, Rice University

Evelyne Oliel-Grausz

Professeur des Universités, Université, Paris Cité Histoire moderne, Histoire des Juifs.

Jess Olson

Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University

Ranen Omer-Sherman

JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies, Professor of Comparative Humanities and English,
University of Louisville

Robert A. Orsi

Professor of Religious Studies and History, Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies

Natan Paradise

Director, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota

Prof. Dr. Paula-Irene

Villa Braslavsky Sociologist, LMU Munich, Germany

Nina Paulovicova

Associate Professor History, Athabasca University, Canada

Yaron Peleg

Kennedy-Leigh Professor in Modern Hebrew Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge

Tanja Penter

Chair of Eastern European History, Heidelberg University

Niv Perelsztejn

Wolfson Doctoral Fellow, the Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa

Yoram Peri

Former Kay Chair and Director of Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, University of Maryland

Micha Perry

Senior Lecturer, Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa

Shachar Pinsker

Professor of Judaic Studies and Middle East Studies, The University of Michigan

Shachar Pinsker

Professor of Judaic Studies and Middle East Studies, University of Michigan

Hannah Pollin-Galay

Head of Jona Goldrich Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature, Tel Aviv University

Benjamin Pollock

Professor, Department of Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dan Porat

Unterberg Chair in Jewish Social and Educational History, Seymour Fox School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Andrew I. Port

Professor of History, Department of History, Wayne State University

Edward Portnoy

Academic Advisor, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Jay Prosser

Reader in Humanities, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds

Shari Rabin

Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Chair of Jewish Studies, Oberlin College & Conservatory

Dana Rabin

Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Shay Rabineau

Associate Professor of Israel Studies, Department of Judaic Studies/Center for Israel Studies, Binghamton University

Simon Rabinovitch

Stotsky Associate Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies, Northeastern University

Prof. Iris Rachamimov

Chair of the General History Department, Tel Aviv University

Itamar Radai

Senior Lecturer of Israel Studies, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel

Michal Raucher

Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University

Tammy Razi

PhD Senior Lecturer Department of Multidisciplinary Studies and Department of Communication, Sapir College

David Rechter

Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Oxford

Elchanan Reiner

Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University

Gideon Reuveni

Ralph Emanuel Director of the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Sussex

Bryan K. Roby

Associate Professor of Jewish and Middle East History, The University of Michigan

Aron Rodrigue

Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University

Michael Rom

Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica, Harvard University

Sven-Erik Rose

Assistant Professor of German and of Comparative Literature, UC Davis

Mark Roseman

Distinguished Professor of History, Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Adjunct Professor in Germanic Studies, Indiana University

Ishay Rosen-Zvi

Chair, Professor, Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud, Tel-Aviv University

Uri Rosenberg

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University

Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman

The Martin (Szusz) Department of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University

Kate Rosenblatt

Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Emory University

Lawrence Rosenwald

Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of English Emeritus, Wellesley College

Doug Rossinow

Professor of History Metro State University, St. Paul, MN

John K. Roth

Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College

Michael Rothberg

Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Holocaust Studies, UCLA

Youval Rotman

Professor, Department of Jewish History, Academic Director, Koret Center for Jewish Civilization, Tel Aviv University

Marsha Rozenblit

Professor of Jewish History, University of Maryland College Park

Orit Rozin

Associate Professor of Israel Studies, Director, Dan David Society of Fellows, Tel Aviv University

Avi Rubin

Associate Professor of Middle East History,
Department of Middle East Studies,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev

David B. Ruderman

Joseph Meyerhoff Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

Gadi Sagiv

Professor, The Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel

Seth L. Sanders

Professor, Religious Studies Department and Jewish Studies Program, UC Davis

Arieh Saposnik

Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Dr. Andrea Schatz

Reader in Jewish Studies, King’s College London

Stuart Schoenfeld

Sociology, Jewish Studies, International Relations
(Emeritus), Glendon College, York University

Daniel Schroeter

Professor and Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History, University of Minnesota

Daniel B. Schwartz

Professor of History and Judaic Studies, George Washington University

Seth Schwartz

Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization, Departments of History and Classics, Columbia University

Donald Schwartz

Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Professor Peter Schäfer

Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies Emeritus, and Professor of Religion Emeritus, Princeton University. Professor of Jewish Studies Emeritus, Freie Universität Berlin. Honorary Professor of Jewish Studies, Humboldt University Berlin.

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum

Director, Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA), Berlin

Professor Shai Secunda

Jacob Neusner Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism, Bard College

Naomi Seidman

Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts, University of Toronto

Dr. Yael Sela

Research Associate, Goethe University Frankfurt

Sasha Senderovich

Associate Professor of Slavic, Jewish, and International Studies, University of Washington Seattle

Edwin Seroussi

Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emeritus of Musicology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Joshua M. Shanes

Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Charleston

Anita Shapira

Professor Emerita of Jewish History and Israel Studies, Tel Aviv University, member of the Israel Academy for Sciences and Humanities

Gilad Sharvit

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Towson University

Yaacov Shavit

Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University

Adam Shear

Associate Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Ghilad H. Shenhav

Center for Israel Studies, LMU Munich

Eugene R. Sheppard

Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University

Dr. Avi Shilon

Tel Hai Academic College

Nathaniel Shils

Visiting Lecturer in Political Science at Wellesley College

Tali Tadmor Shimony

Senior Lecturer, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Colin Shindler

Emeritus Professor, University of London, First UK Professor of Israel Studies

Lihi Ben Shitrit

Marilyn and Henry Taub Associate Professor of Israel Studies, NYU

Prof. Hizky Shoham

Head, the Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel

Dr. Sam Shuman

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Davidson College

Prof. Dmitry Shumsky

Israel Goldstein Chair in the History of Zionism and the New Yishuv, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Michael K. Silber

Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Nancy Sinkoff

Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers University

Liora Sion

Associate Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Hebrew Studies, University of Copenhagen

Dr. Artur Skorek

Jagiellonian University

Helmut Walser Smith

Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

Dr. Dorothe Sommer

Public Relations, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg

Daniel Soyer

Professor of History, Fordham University

Dr. Mia Spiro

Senior Lecturer in Modern Jewish Culture, University of Glasgow

Neta Stahl

Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature Director of The Stulman Program in Jewish Studies Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University

Michael Stanislawski

Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Department of History, Director Emeritus, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University

Deborah Starr

Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Jewish Studies, Cornell University

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Professor of History, Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director, Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies UCLA

Oded Y. Steinberg

International Relations & European Forum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Alan E. Steinweis

Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies,
University of Vermont

Dr. Anat Stern

The Open University of Israel

David Stern

Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Hebrew and Jewish Literature Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Lior B. Sternfeld

Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Penn State

Yael A. Sternhell

Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Tel Aviv University

Dariusz Stola

Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

Daniel Stolz

Kemal H. Karpat Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Anastasiia Strakhova

Starr Fellow in Judaica, Harvard University

Claude B. Stuczynski

Associate Professor, Department of General History, Bar Ilan University

Mira Sucharov

Professor and Associate Chair Department of Political Science Carleton University Ottawa, Canada

Mira Sucharov

Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Sandy Sufian

Associate Professor of Health Humanities and History in the Department of Medical Education at UIC School of Medicine

David Tal

FRHistS, Yossi Harel Chair in Israel Studies, Department of History, University of Sussex

Adam Teller

Professor, Department of History and Judaic Studies, Brown University

Magda Teter

Professor of History, The Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies, Fordham University

Amir Theilhaber

Post Doc Researcher, Department of History - Bielefeld University

Barry Trachtenberg

Rubin, Presidential Chair of Jewish history, Wake Forest University

Harold Troper

Professor Emeritus, OISE, University of Toronto

Nick Underwood

Assistant Professor of History, Berger/Neilsen Chair of Judaic Studies,
The College of Idaho

Daniel Unowsky

Professor and Chair, Department of History, The University of Memphis

Scott Ury

Associate Professor, Department of Jewish History, Former Director, Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University

Dr. Alex Valdman

Researcher, The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel-Aviv University

Roman Vater

Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge

Jeffrey Veidlinger

Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan

Stefan Vogt

Professor of Jewish History, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Steven Wagner

Senior Lecturer in International Security, Brunel University London

Anika Walke

Georgie W. Lewis Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis, currently Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Fellow of the European Union at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany

Yair Wallach

Reader (Associate Professor) in Israeli Studies, SOAS, University of London

Joanna Weinberg

Professor Emerita of Early Modern Jewish History and Rabbinics, University of Oxford

David Weinfeld

Assistant Professor of World Religions, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

Chava Weissler

Prof. Emerita of Religion Studies and Jewish Studies, Lehigh University

Steven Weitzman

Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Beth S. Wenger

Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Joel Whitebook

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology, Columbia University

Barry Scott Wimpfheimer

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Law, Northwestern University

Hana Wirth-Nesher

Professor Emerita, Tel Aviv University

Marcin Wodziński

Professor, Taube Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wrocław

Sebastian Wogenstein

Associate Professor, Interim Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut

Diane L. Wolf

Professor Emerita of Sociology, UC Davis

Sarah Wolf

Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, The Jewish Theological Seminary

Tom Würdemann

PhD Student of Middle Eastern History at Heidelberg University

Azzan Yadin-Israel

Professor of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University

Ori Yehudai

Associate Professor, Schottenstein Chair of Israel Studies, Department of History, The Ohio State University

James Young

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Founding Director: Institute for Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dr. Mirjam Zadoff

Documentation Center for the History of Nationalsocialism, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich

Dr. Noam Zadoff

Assistant Professor, University of Innsbruck

Michael Zank

Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies and Medieval Studies, Boston University

Saul Noam Zaritt

Associate Professor of Yiddish Literature, Harvard University

Sarah Ellen Zarrow

Associate Professor, Endowed Professor of Jewish History, Western Washington University

Shelly Zer-Zion

Senior Lecturer, The Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Haifa

Yael Zerubavel

Professor Emerita, Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers University

Dr. Oded Zinger

Senior Lecturer - Department of Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Steven J. Zipperstein

Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University

Dr. Itay B. Zutra

Judaic Studies Program, The University of Manitoba

Ronald W. Zweig

Taub Professor of Israel Studies (Emeritus), NYU

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