Graduate School of Jewish Studies

Yeshiva University

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

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, located on ’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, rabbis 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 The Ancient Near Literary Analysis 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 Second Temple Period the Christian and Western Europe Late Antiquity Muslim Worlds The United States Sassanian Persia Cultures of Ashkenaz The Islamic Orbit and Sepharad Core Faculty

JOSEPH ANGEL their Greco-Roman Context; ARI MERMELSTEIN (PhD, University) Second Temple and Rabbinic (PhD, New York University) Associate Professor of Bible Literature Associate Professor of Bible Second Temple history and Ancient Jewish history; literature SHALOM HOLTZ conceptions of history in (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) the Second Temple period; DAVID BERGER Professor of Bible emotion in ancient Judaism (PhD, Columbia University) Mesopotomian literature and Ruth & I. Lewis Gordon Professor law and their relationship JESS OLSON of Jewish History and Dean to biblical and post-biblical (PhD, Stanford University) Jewish intellectual history; literature Associate Professor of Jewish-Christian relations; Jewish History Messianism and Messianic ELAZAR HURVITZ Modern East and Central movements; Jewish attitudes (PhD, Yeshiva University) European Jewry; German- toward general culture Dr. Professor Jewish history and thought; of Judaic Studies and Austro-Hungarian Jewry; MORDECHAI Z. COHEN Professor of Biblical and modern Jewish intellectual (PhD, Yeshiva University) Talmudic Literature history; history of Jewish Professor of Bible and Halakhic and midrashic politics and nationalism Associate Dean literature; Geonic literature; Medieval biblical interpretation; Genizah research RONNIE PERELIS modern literary approaches to (PhD, New York University) the Bible EPHRAIM KANARFOGEL Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham (PhD, Yeshiva University) and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay JONATHAN DAUBER E. Billi Ivry Professor of Associate Professor of (PhD, New York University) Jewish History Sephardic Studies Associate Professor of Medieval Jewish history; Jews in the medieval and early Jewish Mysticism history of halakhah and of modern Iberian world; Kabbalah and Hasidism educational theory and Inquisition and Crypto-Judaism; practice; intellectual cross- autobiography and travel BARRY EICHLER currents between Ashkenaz literature; Sephardic diasporas; (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) and Sefarad; pietism and Jews in Latin America Professor of Ancient Near mysticism in rabbinic culture Eastern and Biblical Studies DANIEL RYNHOLD Application of Mesopotamian JOSHUA KARLIP (PhD, London School of literature to the study of (PhD, Jewish Theological Economics) the Bible Seminary) Professor of Modern Jewish Associate Professor Philosophy STEVEN FINE of Jewish History Director of Revel Doctoral (PhD, Hebrew University) Herbert S. and Naomi Program Pinkhos Churgin Professor Denenberg Chair in Medieval and modern Jewish of Jewish History Jewish Studies philosophy; the thought of Rabbi Jewish life in Greco-Roman Eastern European Jewish Joseph B. Soloveitchik; Jewish times; art history history; rabbinic scholarship conceptions of law and ethics and leadership JEFFREY S. GUROCK DANIEL TSADIK (PhD, Columbia University) AARON KOLLER (PhD, Yale University) Libby M. Klaperman Professor (PhD, Yeshiva University) Associate Professor of of Jewish History Professor of Bible Sephardic and Iranian Studies American Jewish history, with Near Eastern languages; History of the Jews in Islamic an emphasis on social and semantics and lexicography; lands; modern Iran; Shi’i Islam; religious history archaeology and texts; Iran’s religious minorities; intellectual and cultural RICHARD HIDARY Iran’s Jewry histories of antiquity (PhD, New York University) Associate Professor of Jewish History History of the Rabbis and Associate Faculty

NAOMI GRUNHAUS (PhD, New York University) Associate Professor of Bible Medieval Jewish biblical exegesis; peshat as compared All courses for the MA degree in Jewish Philosophy at to rabbinic received traditions Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies are now available through Yeshiva Univer- JOSHUA ZIMMERMAN sity’s remote conference platform. Students participate in (PhD, Brandeis University) Eli and Diana Zborowski class in real time. Professorial Chair in Holocaust www.yu.edu/revelonline Studies and East European Jewish History and Professor of History Jewish social and national movements in Eastern Europe; Quick Facts Jewish culture in Eastern Europe; Holocaust studies. • We offer MA and PhD programs and a joint BA/MA or BS/MA program for undergraduates of , Yeshiva College, and Sy . • A Dual—Degree MS/MA is available with YU’s Azrieli Senior Adjunct Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. Faculty • Classes meet weekly for 15 weeks at 3, 5, and 7 p.m. • Five week summer courses offered. ELISHEVA CARLEBACH (PhD, Columbia University) • Generous scholarships available. Professor of History History of early modern European Jewry

SID Z. LEIMAN (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) Professor of Jewish History and Literature Bible; history of biblical exegesis; early modern Jewish intellectual history

DEAN DAVID BERGER

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.

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