Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

The Infirm, the Unfortunate, and the Aged: "Likely Public Charges," Immigration Control, and the Yishuv in Theory and Practice

"I am Unable to Do my Job:" Literary Depictions of the Scribal Profession in the Story of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36

The Possibilities of an Arab-Jewish Poetics: A Study of the Arabic and Hebrew Fiction of Shimon Ballas and Sami Michael

Renovating a Deity: The Formation of Biblical Craftsmanship Metaphors and the Artisanal God-Talk of Deutero-Isaiah

The Impact of the Six-Day War on Jewish-Protestant Relations

Between Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin: Jewish Translators of Islamic Sciences in the Medieval Kingdom of Sicily

Jewish Medical Culture: Case Studies in End-of-Life Decision Making

Finding a Place for the Past: Sephardic Reconfigurations of Spain and Palestine, 1914-1968

Pennies from Heaven: The History of American Synagogues and Money

"Let All Life Be in Common:" Jewish Universalism from the Hebrew Bible through the Second Temple Period

Commentary and Authority in Mesopotamia and Qumran

Power, Pulpits and Pews: Religious Authority and the Formation of American Judaism, 1816-1885

The JUBUs: The Encounter between Judaism and Buddhism in America

Civil-Military Relations in Israel and Turkey: A Comparative Study on Military Interventions

Erotic Underworlds: Gender and Sexuality in the Work of Isaac Bashevis Singer

What! Still Alive? First Encounters of Jewish Survivors with their Former Polish Neighbors in Postwar Accounts

Israeli NGOs and American Jewish Donors: The Structures and Dynamics of Power Sharing in a New Philanthropic Era

Jews & The Russo-Japanese War: The Triangular Relationship between Jewish POWs, Japan, and Jacob H. Schiff

Mapping The Nation: Simun Shvilim and the Creation of Isarel's Hiking Trail Network

Radical Death: The Paradoxical Unity of Body, Soul and the Cosmos in Lurianic Kabbalah

Figuring Bi-Nationalism: The Transformation of Bi-nationalism in Palestine/Israel 1920s to Present

Poetic Features in Priestly Narrative Texts

A Comprehensive Analysis of Rabenu Abraham Maimuni's Biblical Commentary

Yahweh as Sexual Deity in J's Prehistory

Power of the Purse: Social Change in Jewish Women's Philanthropy

The Sephardic Rabbinate, Sephardic Yeshivot, and the Shas Educational System

Qadisiyyah, then and now: A case study of history and memory, religious, and national in Middle Eastern discourse

Non-Jewish Minorities and the Question of Military Service in the Israel Defense Forces, 1948-195

Limited Engagement with the Divine: Rites of Temporary Cultic Transition in Ugaritic and Biblical Texts

Jewish Bureaucracy in Late Imperial Russia: The Phenomenon of Expert Jews, 1850-1917

The Shaping of a Levantine Community: The Jews of Beirut, 1860-1939