FACULTY
Jonathan Decter has recently published Iberian Jewish Literature: Between Al-Andalus and Christian Europe; Indiana University Press, 2007
Sylvia Barack Fishman has two new books: The Way into the Varieties of Jewishness; Choosing Jewish: Conversations About Conversion, and Double Or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage.
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry XVIII : Jewish Women in Eastern Europe, edited by Chaeran Freeze, Paula Hyman, and Antony Polonsky (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2005), recently received a glowing review to be published in Shofar.
Motti Inbari’s book, Who will Build the Third Temple - Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount, was recently accepted for publication by the State University of New York Press.
An expanded edition of The Mystical Meaning of ‘Lekhah Dodi’ and ‘Kabbalat Shabbat’ [Hebrew] (2003), by Reuven Kimelman, will be published in 2008. Professor Kimelman has also published “An Assessment of Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath." Shofar 2007 (forthcoming) and "Bridging the Divide Between Judaism and Christianity," review of Irving Greenberg, For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity, already expanded in Edah Journal 5:2 (Sivan/5766 [2006]), and further expanded in Modern Judaism 27 (2007).
STUDENTS
Karen Auerbach has published “The Fate of a Yiddish Writer in Communist Eastern Europe: The Case of Naftali Herts Kon in Poland, 1959-1965,” in Zydzi a Lewica [Jews and the Left], edited by August Grabski, in Yiddish translation in the newspaper Tsukunft, June 2007, and (upcoming) in Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 21, November 2008.
Victoria Khiterer has had an article published: “Jewish Life in Kyiv at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Ukraina Moderna, Vol. 10, 2006, pp. 74-94.
Adam Mendelsohn has two articles published, both in the journal American Jewish History: "Tongue Ties: The Emergence of the Anglophone Jewish Diaspora in the Mind-Nineteenth Century" and "'A Struggle Which has Ended So Beneficently': A Century of Jewish Historical Writing about the American Civil War".
Monika Rice has had a paper accepted for publication in Polin: "Phantom Fear of a Phantom People. Resisting a Phantom Book: A Critical Assessment of Recent Polish Discussion of Jan Gross’s 'Fear'."
Joseph Ringel wrote two articles, one on the Jewish community of Aydin, another on the Jewish community of the Aegean Sea/Islands, for the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.