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Expertise: Jewish thought, intellectual history, political thought, legal history
Expertise: Israeli history, gender, Orthodox Jews, politics of popular culture, television and film, nationalism, politics
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Keren Goodblatt has been with the Center for over 12 years. Before coming to Brandeis, she was the student life coordinator at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts. Keren was born in Israel and grew up in California. She has a BA in French from UCLA, and studied romance philology, semiotics and sociolinguistics at the University of Bologna, Italy. Keren speaks Italian, French, Hebrew and Welsh.
Before joining the Schusterman Center in the fall 2018, Wendy served as the admissions coordinator for the Trust Center for Early Education at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline and has worked for Eim Chai, a local start-up Jewish women’s organization, to name a few. She also spent 13 summers as the office manager for Camp Pembroke, a Jewish girls' overnight camp, in Pembroke, Massachusetts.
“Introducing my students to Israeli culture opens their eyes, their minds, and their hearts. They gain a critical understanding of the complexity and diversity of Israel's multiethnic and multicultural society, which disrupts preconceived notions and undermines stereotypes.”
Gannit Ankori
Professor of Art History and Chair of the Israeli Art, Department of Fine Arts, Brandeis University