Graduate School of

Yeshiva University

BIBLE I I I MODERN, MEDIEVAL, ANCIENT JEWISH HISTORY This is Revel

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, located on University’s Wilf Campus in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, is one of the world’s largest centers of advanced Jewish studies, with a faculty of extraordinary range and quality. On the MA level, it provides current and prospective teachers, and communal leaders with broad and sophisticated knowledge in their fields of concentration. Beyond this central constituency, the MA Program appeals to individuals in all walks of life who strive to enhance their Jewish learning through a rigorous and stimulating program. On the doctoral level, Revel’s rich offerings and expert faculty guide students toward the realization of their full potential as researchers and academics advancing the frontiers of Jewish scholarship. Revel also hosts public lectures and events with visiting scholars from around the world.

Areas of Study

Bible Talmud Jewish Linguistics Legal and Philosophy Literary Analysis The Ancient Near Rationalism Eastern Setting Comparative Mysticism Literary Analysis Cultural Studies Hasidism Parshanut ha-Miqra Manuscripts (History of Biblical and the History 20th Century Interpretation) of Texts Thinkers

Modern Medieval Ancient Jewish History Jewish History Jewish History Eastern and Interaction with Western Europe the Christian and Second Temple Period Muslim Worlds The United States Late Antiquity Cultures of Ashkenaz The Islamic Orbit Sassanian Persia and Sepharad Faculty

JOSEPH ANGEL RICHARD HIDARY ARI MERMELSTEIN (PhD, ) (PhD, New York University) (PhD, New York University) Associate Professor of Bible Associate Professor of Associate Professor of Bible Second Temple history and Jewish History Ancient Jewish history; literature History of the Rabbis and conceptions of history in their Greco-Roman Context; the Second Temple period; DAVID BERGER Second Temple and Rabbinic emotion in ancient Judaism (PhD, Columbia University) Literature Ruth & I. Lewis Gordon JESS OLSON Professor of Jewish History SHALOM HOLTZ (PhD, Stanford University) Jewish intellectual history; (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) Associate Professor of Jewish-Christian relations; Professor of Bible Jewish History Messianism and Messianic Mesopotomian literature and Modern East and Central movements; Jewish attitudes law and their relationship European Jewry; German- toward general culture to biblical and post-biblical Jewish history and thought; literature Austro-Hungarian Jewry; MORDECHAI Z. COHEN modern Jewish intellectual (PhD, ) ELAZAR HURVITZ history; history of Jewish Professor of Bible and (PhD, Yeshiva University) politics and nationalism Associate Dean Dr. Professor Medieval biblical interpretation; of Judaic Studies and RONNIE PERELIS modern literary approaches to Professor of Biblical and (PhD, New York University) the Bible Talmudic Literature Chief Dr. Isaac Abraham Halakhic and midrashic and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay JONATHAN DAUBER literature; Geonic literature; Associate Professor of (PhD, New York University) Genizah research Sephardic Studies Associate Professor in Jews in the medieval and early Jewish Mysticism and Director EPHRAIM KANARFOGEL modern Iberian world; of Revel Doctoral Program (PhD, Yeshiva University) Inquisition and Crypto-Judaism; Kabbalah and Hasidism E. Billi Ivry Professor of autobiography and travel Jewish History literature; Sephardic diasporas; STEVEN FINE Medieval Jewish history; Jews in Latin America (PhD, Hebrew University) history of halakhah and of Pinkhos Churgin Professor educational theory and DANIEL RYNHOLD of Jewish History practice; intellectual cross- (PhD, London School of Jewish life in Greco-Roman currents between Ashkenaz Economics) times; art history and Sefarad; pietism and Dean and Professor mysticism in rabbinic culture of Jewish Philosophy NAOMI GRUNHAUS Medieval and modern Jewish (PhD, New York University) JOSHUA KARLIP philosophy; the thought of Associate Professor of Bible (PhD, Jewish Theological Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik; Medieval Jewish biblical Seminary) Jewish conceptions of law exegesis; peshat as compared to Associate Professor of Jewish and ethics rabbinic received traditions History Herbert S. and Naomi Denenberg Chair JOSHUA ZIMMERMAN JEFFREY S. GUROCK in Jewish Studies (PhD, Brandeis University) (PhD, Columbia University) Eastern European Jewish Eli and Diana Zborowski Libby M. Klaperman Professor history; rabbinic scholarship Professorial Chair in Holocaust of Jewish History and leadership Studies and East European American Jewish history, with Jewish History and Professor an emphasis on social and AARON KOLLER of History religious history (PhD, Yeshiva University) Jewish social and national Prof. of Near Eastern Studies movements in Eastern Europe; Near Eastern languages; Jewish culture in Eastern semantics and lexicography; Europe; Holocaust studies archaeology and texts; intellectual and cultural histories of antiquity Senior Adjunct SID Z. LEIMAN (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) Quick Facts Faculty Professor of Jewish History and Literature • We offer MA and PhD ELISHEVA CARLEBACH Bible; history of biblical programs and a joint BA/MA (PhD, Columbia University) exegesis; early modern or BS/MA program for Professor of History Jewish intellectual history undergraduates of Stern History of early modern College for Women, Yeshiva European Jewry DANIEL TSADIK (PhD, Yale University) College, and Sy Syms School BARRY EICHLER Associate Professor of of Business. (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) Sephardic and Iranian Studies • A Dual Degree MS/MA is Professor of Ancient Near History of the Jews in Islamic Eastern and Biblical Studies lands; modern Iran; Shi’i Islam; available with YU’s Azrieli Application of Mesopotamian Iran’s religious minorities; Graduate School of Jewish literature to the study of Iran’s Jewry Education and Administration. the Bible • Classes meet weekly for 15 weeks at 3, 5, and 7 p.m.

• Five week summer courses offered.

• Generous scholarships available. All courses for the MA degree in Jewish Philosophy at Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies are now available through Yeshiva University’s remote conference platform. Students participate in class in real time.

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Library and Research Facilities Comprehensive research collections in Jewish studies at the Mendel Gottesman Library on the Wilf Campus—numbering 300,000 volumes, Judaic CD ROMs and access to online databases—offer rich and diverse resources. An experienced and service-oriented staff assists students and scholars in all phases of research. Access to other major Judaica research collections is facilitated by the library’s membership in METRO and the New York Area Theological Library Association.

Revel Daniel Rynhold Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies Dean [email protected] Furst Hall, Third Floor Mordechai Cohen 500 West 185th Street Associate Dean New York, NY 10033 [email protected]

Rona Steinerman 646.592.4270 Program Director www.yu.edu/revel [email protected] Sheniagia Washington Academic Administrator [email protected] facebook.com/revelschool Sara Reinitz blogs.yu.edu/revel Assistant Director of Programming @yurevelschool [email protected]

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