D GERSHON LEWENTAL, PHD Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Shalem College ha-ʿAsqan 3 | 9378010 Israel [email protected] (e-mail) DGLnotes.com (website)

EDUCATION Brandeis University, Lown School of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies Waltham, Massachusetts PhD, MA, Islamic and Middle Eastern history August 2003–August 2011 Dissertation title: ‘Qādisiyyah, then and now: A Case study of history and memory, religion, and nationalism in Middle Eastern discourse’; committee: Avigdor Levy (chair), Kanan Makiya, David S Powers (Cornell University). Dissertation prizes: Foundation of Iranian Studies Best Dissertation Award (2012) and the Brandeis University Glatzer Dissertation Prize (2012). Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, Institute of Languages and Literature Dushanbe, Tajikistan US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship—Intensive Persian Summer Institute June–July 2009 University of Wisconsin, Department of & Persian Languages Madison, Wisconsin Persian immersion programme June–August 2005 Cornell University, College of Arts & Sciences: Depts of Near Eastern Studies and Economics Ithaca, New York AB magna cum laude; with distinction and with a minor in International Relations; Dean’s List August 1999–May 2003

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Shalem College, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Jerusalem, Israel Assistant professor February 2017–present University of Oklahoma, Departments of History and International & Area Studies Norman, Oklahoma Visiting assistant professor August 2012–May 2018 Brandeis University, Lown School of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies Waltham, Massachusetts Teaching fellow August 2003–May 2006  Recipient of the Brandeis University Graduate School Outstanding Teaching Prize for 2004–2005.

EDITING AND TRANSLATION EXPERIENCE Journal of Persianate Societies Leiden, The Netherlands Associate editor January 2016–present E J Brill Academic Press Leiden, The Netherlands Translation editor and content editor March 2007–present Freelance translator and editor Tel-Aviv, Israel Hebrew/English translator and editor October 2010–present

PUBLICATIONS

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES ‘The Death of Rostam: Literary representations of Iranian identity in early Islam’. Iranian Studies 50.2 (March 2017), 223-245 (doi: 10.1080/00210862.2016.1248813). ‘“Saddam’s Qadisiyyah”: Religion and history in the service of state ideology in Baʿthi Iraq’. Middle Eastern Studies 50.6 (November 2014), 891-910 (doi: 10.1080/00263206.2013.870899).

PEER-REVIEWED ENCYCLOPÆDIA ENTRIES ‘Qādesiya, Battle of’. Encyclopædia Iranica (EIr). Ed. Ehsan Yarshater. New York City: Columbia University Center for Iranian Studies, 1996–present. Online ed. ‘Rostam b. Farroḵ-Hormozd’. EIr. Online ed.

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‘Amatus Lusitanus (Amato Lusitano)’. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (EJIW). Ed. Norman A Stillman, et al. Leiden: E J Brill, 2010. Vol. 1, 195-197. ‘Bekhor Ashkenazi (Behor Efendi)’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 269-270. ‘Avanté’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 294. ‘Barukh ben Isaac Miṭrani’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 351-353. ‘Solomon Ben Yaʿesh (also Ibn Yaʿish or Abenæs)’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 396-398. ‘Albert Benaroya’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 405-406. ‘Avraam Benaroya’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 406-407. ‘Meʾir Bikayam’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 476. ‘Bulgaria’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 511-517. ‘Capital Tax Law (Varlık Vergisi, 1942)’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 566-567. ‘Albert Carasso (Karasu)’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 571-572. ‘Emmanuel Carasso (Karasu)’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 572-573. ‘Carmona family’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 574-575. ‘Bekhor Isaac David Carmona’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 575-577. ‘Elia Rafael Carmona’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 577-578. ‘Club des Intimes, Salonica’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 647-648. ‘Tobias Cohn (Ṭuviyyah Cohen)’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 652-653. ‘Israel Conegliano (Conian)’. EJIW. Vol. 1, 660-661. ‘Abraham Danon’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 25-26. ‘Henri E Del Medico’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 50. ‘Jews in Diplomacy, Ottoman Empire and Sharifan Morocco’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 82-88. ‘Dragomans (Tercuman; Translators)’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 94-96. ‘El Progresso (Yosef ha-Daʿat)’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 148-149. ‘Daniel de Fonseca’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 218-219. ‘Albert Fua’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 237-239. ‘Gaṭigno family’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 273-274. ‘Elyakim ben Isaac Gaṭigno’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 274-275. ‘ha-Mevasser, Istanbul, 1909–11’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 350-351. ‘Samuel Ḥayyim’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 386-387. ‘Ḥevra (Charitable or Sacred society)’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 409-415. ‘Joseph Ibn Verga’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 552-553. ‘David ben Solomon Ibn Yaḥya’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 553. ‘Jacob Tam ben David Ibn Yaḥya’. EJIW. Vol. 2, 554-555. ‘Mordechai ben Solomon Kalai’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 90-91. ‘Yehoshua Kalef (Kalev)’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 98-99. ‘Karmi Shelli ()’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 121. ‘Joseph ben Nissim Kasabi’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 121-122.

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‘Kethüda (Kâhya, Heb. Shtadlan)’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 130-131. ‘Kira (Kiera, Kyra)’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 161-163. ‘La Boz de Izmir’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 196. ‘La Luz de Israel (Istanbul)’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 202. ‘La Nation (Salonica)’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 202-203. ‘Aaron ben Isaac Lapapa’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 210-211. ‘L’Aurore (Istanbul)’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 217-218. ‘Le Jeune Turc’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 220-221. ‘Le Journal d’Orient’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 221-222. ‘Moshe Levi (ha-Levi)’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 229-231. ‘Levi (le-Vet ha-Levi) family, Salonica’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 231-234. ‘Shabbetai Levi’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 237-238. ‘Maʿamad’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 295. ‘Barukh ben Isaac Miṭrani’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 435-436. ‘Naḥmias family’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 544-546. ‘Joseph Nehama’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 567-571. ‘Joseph Niégo’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 579-581. ‘Ottoman Empire 3. From 1650 to 1835’. EJIW. Vol. 3, 612-619. ‘Pallache family (Turkish branch)’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 36-38. ‘Samuel Primo’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 99-100. ‘Solomon ben Nissim Qimḥi (Kamḥi)’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 134. ‘Recanati family’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 151-154. ‘Avram Salem’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 214. ‘Emmanuel Raphael Salem’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 214-216. ‘Ḥanokh Saporta’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 252-253. ‘Isaac Ṣarfati’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 261. ‘Aaron ben Joseph Sasson’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 264. ‘Lucien Sciuto’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 274-276. ‘Moshe Shaul’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 351-352. ‘Samuel Usque’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 583-585. ‘Solomon Usque’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 585-586. ‘Azariah Yehoshuʿa (Joshua Ashkenazi)’. EJIW. Vol. 4, 624-625.

TRANSLATIONS—BOOKS Harel, Yaron. Zionism in Damascus: Ideology and activity in the Jewish community at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. London: I B Tauris, 2015.

TRANSLATIONS—PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES Harel, Yaron. ‘ha-Mizrah/al-Sharq: A Zionist newspaper in Damascus during the reign of Faysal in 1920’. Middle Eastern Studies 50.1 (January 2014): 129-143 (doi: 10.1080/00263206.2013.863758).

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TRANSLATIONS—PEER-REVIEWED ENCYCLOPÆDIA ENTRIES Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. 2nd ed. Leiden: E J Brill (forthcoming): 5 peer-reviewed entries (official Hebrew translator). Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world. Leiden: E J Brill, 2010: 140 peer-reviewed entries (official Hebrew translator).

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS Foundation of Iranian Studies Best PhD Dissertation Award November 2012 Brandeis University Nahum & Anne Glatzer Endowed Dissertation Prize May 2012 Brandeis University Graduate School Outstanding Teaching Prize 2004–2005 Brandeis University Redstone Dissertation Year Fellowship February 2010 US Dept of State Critical Language Scholarship for Intensive Persian Study (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) March 2009 Mellon Dissertation Research Grant March 2009 Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa conference travel grant, recipient 2013; 2014; 2015 Near Eastern & Judaic Stds, Brandeis University, GTR grant recipient Apr 2005; Aug 2007; Aug 2008; Oct 2009 Brandeis University Provost’s Dissertation Expense Award & Sachar Travel Scholarship March & April 2008

PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCHOLARLY MEETINGS 2017: ‘Call-and-response battles in Syria and Iraq: The Literary construction of Islamic collective memory’ (and panel organiser, ‘Echoes of battle: Legitimation, memory, and the distant past in Islamic narratives’), 51st annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, 18–21 November 2017, Washington, DC. 2016: ‘Iranians, Ottomans, and Europeans in the Nineteenth-Century entrepôt of Istanbul’, 9th annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, 28 October 2016, Washington, DC. 2016: ‘Under the banner of Iran: The Derafsh-e kāveyān as a changing emblem of Iranian identity from the Sāsānian era to the present’, 11th biennial conference of the International Society of Iranian Studies, 04 August 2016, Vienna, Austria. 2016: ‘Beyond “Israel studies”: The Case of Bahāʾīs and Jews in the , 1917–1957’, 32nd annual meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, 21 June 2016, Jerusalem, Israel. 2015: ‘From Israelites to Muslims: Biblical paradigms in the Futūḥ literature’ (and panel organiser, ‘Imagining the ummah: Texts, culture, and the creation of community in early Islam’), 49th annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, 22 November 2015, Denver, Colorado. 2015: ‘The Derafsh-e kāveyān: The Pre-Islamic Iranian national standard in myth, history, and memory’, 8th annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, 30 October 2015, Washington, DC. 2015: ‘Symbols of (Iranian) empire: Banners, thrones, carpets, and pearls in Arab-Islamic conquest narratives’, 7th biennial congress of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, 09 September 2015, İstanbul, Turkey. 2015: ‘The (Gem) star-spangled banner yet waves’: Iranian priceless treasures in early Islamic history and memory’, 225th meeting of the American Oriental Society, 14 March 2015, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2014: ‘Bahāʾīs and Jews in the Holy Land, 1917–1957: Symbiosis and scholarship’, 46th annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, 14 December 2014, Baltimore, Maryland. 2014: ‘Hero and Trickster in early Islamic historiography: The Case of the Qādisiyyah narratives’ (invited panelist), 48th annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, 23 November 2014, Washington, DC. 2014: ‘From settlement to symbol: al-Qādisiyyah and the dehistoricisation of memory in mediæval narratives, sermons, and poetry’ (and panel organiser, ‘Narratives and perceptions of the mediæval world’), 7th annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, 01 November 2014, Washington, DC. 4 of 7

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2014: ‘Myth and memory in Islamic narratives: Saʿd and Abū Miḥjan at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah’ (and panel organiser, ‘Narratives and memory of early Islamic society’), 7th annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, 31 October 2014, Washington, DC. 2014: ‘Rostam’s death at al-Qādisiyyah: Early representations of Iranian identity in Islamic narratives’, 10th biennial conference of the International Society of Iranian Studies, 08 August 2014, Montréal, Québec. 2014: ‘Rustam’s death at al-Qādisiyya and the development of an Islamic Iranian identity’, 224th meeting of the American Oriental Society, 15 March 2014, Phoenix, Arizona. 2014: ‘Iranian and Islamic heritage and the formation of Tajiki national identity’ (invited participant), After the Persianate: Cultural heritage and national transformation in modern Iran and India, a conference of the Iranian Studies Program, College of International Studies, University of Oklahoma, 08 March 2014, Norman, Oklahoma. 2013: ‘“First”, “second”, and “third” battles of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq, Palestine, and Syria: Early Islamic history and memory in radical Islamist discourse’, 6th annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, 22 November 2013, Washington, DC. 2013: ‘The Death of Rostam: Literary representations of Iranian identity in early Islam’, 6th biennial congress of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, 03 September 2013, Sarajevo, Bosnia. 2012: ‘History for a purpose: An Analysis of “Ṣaddām’s Qādisiyyah”’, 5th annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, 12 October 2012, Washington, DC.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP  International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS)/Association for Iranian Studies (AIS)  American Oriental Society (AOS)  Middle East Studies Association (MESA)  Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS)  Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)  Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)  Association for Israel Studies (AIS)  World Union of Jewish Studies (WUJS)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE  Associate editor, Journal of Persianate Studies.  Book manuscript review for Oxford University Press and E J Brill Academic Publishers.  Participation on MA committees, Fulbright Award committees, and university and national essay contest committees at the University of Oklahoma.  Board member, Hillel at the University of Oklahoma.

PUBLIC LECTURES 2017: ‘What is the Middle East?’, Moore Baháʾí Cultural Event, Moore, Oklahoma, 01 April 2017. 2016: ‘The Holocaust and our world today’ (panel participant), Holocaust Remembrance and Restitution Society’s Holocaust Remembrance Week, Norman, Oklahoma, 04 May 2016. 2016: ‘Jews, Christians, and Ottoman society: Minorities under Islam’, Second Wind Ministries and Episcopal Student Association, Norman, Oklahoma, 03 May 2016.

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2016: ‘Israel: Ask me anything’, Hillel at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 14 April 2016. 2016: ‘What makes radical Islam so radical? Understanding radical Islam and Salafism in the Middle East’, Cleveland County Democrats Corn Bread and Beans lecture series, Norman, Oklahoma, 01 April 2016. 2016: ‘Vernacular Islam’, Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 18 March 2016. 2016: ‘Epic encounters? Narrative, archetypes, and myth in Islamic historiography’, Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar and Islamic Studies Program lecture series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 17 March 2016. 2016: ‘Reflections on the future: How societies use religion, memory, and conflict to define and maintain their identities’, Tulsa Jewish United Fund Campaign kickoff lecture and reception, Jewish Federation of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 06 March 2016. 2016: ‘Israel: Ask me anything’, Hillel at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 29 February 2016. 2016: ‘Israel and the Palestinian territories in 2015—A Retrospective’, Center for Middle East Studies brown-bag lecture series, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 08 February 2016. 2015: ‘Recent trends and tensions in Israeli politics and society’, Jewish University adult education series, Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 09 November 2015. 2015: ‘Israel 101’, Hillel at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 20 October 2015. 2015: ‘The Rise of Islam and the Arab-Islamic conquests in their historical perspective’, Episcopal Student Association, St Anselm of Canterbury Episcopal Student Center, Norman, Oklahoma, 07 October 2015. 2015: ‘Finding truth in the Futūḥ: Challenges in studying the Arab-Islamic conquests’, Department of Near Eastern Studies colloquium series, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 04 May 2015. 2015: ‘From Protective Edge to pre-emptive elections: Israeli news and analysis’, Jewish University adult education series, Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 23 March 2015. 2015: ‘Radical Islam and the Arab-Israeli conflict’, ‘Arab-Israeli conflict’ guest lecture, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 16 March 2015. 2015: ‘Israeli elections primer: Understanding and interpreting the 17 March 2015 elections’, Department of International & Area Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 10 March 2015. 2015: ‘Israeli culture and cuisine’, Faculty-in-Residence country culture night, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 08 March 2015. 2015: ‘Narratives of Islamic historiography: Reading historical texts as literature’, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies brown-bag lecture series, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 11 February 2015. 2014: ‘The Iran-Iraq war of words: Enlisting nationalism and religion in combat’, Center for the Study of Nationalism lecture series, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 18 April 2014. 2014: ‘Israel and the US’, Foreign Policy Association’s Great Decisions series, Norman Public Library, Norman, Oklahoma, 03 April 2014. 2014: ‘The Tumultuous Seventh-Century: The Arab-Islamic conquests and the reshaping of the world’, Medieval Fair Lecture Series, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman Public Library, Norman, Oklahoma, 28 February 2014. 2014: ‘Creating and constructing heroes and anti-heroes in early Islamic historiography’, 1st meeting of the Iranian Studies Research Group, Institute for the Study of Asia and Africa and the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, 05 January 2014. 2013: ‘The Iran-Iraq war of words, memory, and religious history’, Iran Forum, Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 26 December 2013.

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2013: ‘The Baháʾí faith and the State of Israel’, Edmond Baháʾí Center, Edmond, Oklahoma, 17 November 2013. 2013: ‘Jews, Judaism, Israel, and the Middle East’, Norman Baháʾí Center, Norman, Oklahoma, 18 October 2013. 2013: ‘Between Egypt, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories: Israel in today’s Middle East’, Norman Jewish Community Organization, Norman, Oklahoma, 06 October 2013. 2013: ‘History of the Baháʾí community in the Holy Land, 1917 to the present’, Moore Baháʾí Cultural Event, Moore, Oklahoma, 01 February 2013. 2013: ‘An Israeli elections primer: Understanding and interpreting the 22 January 2013 elections’, Department of International & Area Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 18 January 2013. 2013: ‘The Rise of Jewish national identity in the modern world’, Israel Cornell Club, Khan Museum of Ḥaderah, Ḥaderah, Israel, 07 January 2013. 2012: ‘The Baháʾí faith in the Holy Land and Baháʾí-Israeli relations’, Norman Baháʾí Center, Norman, Oklahoma, 08 December 2012. 2012: ‘The Art of Zionism: Jewish national identity in the modern world’, Jewish University adult education series, Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 12 November 2012. 2012: ‘The Bahāʾī faith in Israel and its community’s relations with the Jewish state’, JuST Lunch Brown-Bag Lecture Series, Schusterman Centre for Judaic & Israel Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 03 October 2012.

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