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Core Faculty

David Berger (PhD, Columbia University)
Ruth & I. Lewis Gordon Professor of Jewish History and Dean. Jewish intellectual history; Jewish-Christian relations; Messianism and Messianic movements; Jewish attitudes toward general culture.

Mordechai Cohen (PhD, Yeshiva University)
Professor of Bible and Associate Dean. Medieval biblical interpretation; connections with Arabic poetics and medieval Hebrew poetry; Muslim jurisprudence and Jewish legal exegesis; modern literary approaches to the Bible.

Jonathan Dauber (Phd, New York University)
Assistant Professor of Jewish Mysticism.  Kabbalah and Hasidism.

Barry Eichler (PhD, University of Pennsylvania)
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies. Application of Mesopotamian literature to the study of the Bible.

Yaakov Elman (PhD, New York University)
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies. Tosefta: structure, aims, and relationship to the Talmudim; rabbinic theology; unfolding systems of rabbinic legal exegesis.

Steven Fine (PhD, Hebrew University)
Professor of Jewish History.  Jewish life in Greco-Roman times; art history.

Jeffrey S. Gurock (PhD, Columbia University)
Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History. American Jewish history, with emphasis on social and religious history; modern Jewish history.

Elazar Hurvitz (PhD, Yeshiva University)
Professor of Biblical and Talmudic Literature; Dr. Samuel Belkin Chair in Judaic Studies. Halakhic and midrashic literature; Geonic literature; Genizah research.

Arthur Hyman (PhD, Harvard University)
Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy. History of medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy; modern Jewish thought; Maimonides; Jewish ethics.

Ephraim Kanarfogel (PhD, Yeshiva University)
E. Billi Ivry Professor of Jewish History.  Medieval Jewish history; history of halakhah; history of educational theory and practice; intellectual cross-currents between Ashkenaz and Sefarad; pietism and mysticism in rabbinic culture.

Daniel Rynhold (PhD, London School of Economics)
Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Philosophy. Modern Jewish Philosophy.

Richard C. Steiner (PhD, University of Pennsylvania)
Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures. Biblical and mishnaic Hebrew; Aramaic dialectology; Semitic linguistics; Hebrew linguistics in the Middle Ages.

Daniel Tsadik (PhD, Yale University)
Assistant Professor of Sephardic and Iranian Studies.

Associate Faculty

Shawn Z. Aster (PhD University of Pennsylvania)
Assistant Professor of Bible, Yeshiva College. Hebrew Bible; Mesopotamian Literature; Northwest Semitics; History and Historical Geography of the Biblical Period; Midrashic Literature.

Shalom Holtz (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania), Assistant Professor of Bible. Mesopotomian literature and law and their relationship to biblical and post-biblical literature.

Debra Kaplan (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) Dr. Pinkhos Churgin Memorial Assistant Professor Jewish History.  Early Modern Jewish History; Jewish-Christian relations; emphasis on social history.

Joshua Karlip (PhD, Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Assistant Professor of Jewish History. Eastern European Jewish History.

Joshua Zimmerman (PhD, Brandeis University)
Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies and Eastern European Jewish History; Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies.  Jewish social and national movements in Eastern Europe; Jewish culture in Eastern Europe; Holocaust studies.

Senior Adjunct Faculty

Elisheva Carlebach (PhD, Columbia University)
Visiting Professor of History. History of early modern European Jewry.

Sid Z. Leiman (PhD, University of Pennsylvania)
Visiting Professor of Jewish History and Literature. Bible; history of Biblical exegesis; early modern Jewish intellectual history