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As we enter the 2018-2019 academic year, we are pleased to announce a variety of new developments in the Program in Jewish Studies at 抖阴旅行射 Boulder. We welcome two new faculty members to Jewish Studies, Rebecca Wartell , Instructor in Jewish Studies, and Hilary Kalisman , Assistant Professor of History...

In Professor David Shneer 's latest article, "How Jewish Can One Fiddler Be?: Reflections on the Folksbiene鈥檚 Fidler afn dakh, " he and colleague Professor Rebecca Kobrin of Columbia University consider why this Yiddish version of Fiddler on the Roof (with English and Russian subtitles) is the best rendition they've...

Professor Brian Catlos鈥檚 latest book, Kingdoms of Faith. A New History of Islamic Spain was featured in The New Yorker鈥檚 鈥淏rief Notices鈥� (23 May issue). From The New Yorker Kingdoms of Faith , by Brian A. Catlos (Basic) . Rejecting histories of Islamic Spain that cast it as either a...

Islamic Spain: was it a paradise of tolerance and religious harmony, or an oppressive and violent authoritarian regime? Was it a beacon of enlightened sophistication snuffed out by barbaric Dark Age Europeans, or the arena of a clash of eastern and western civilizations? Brian Catlos , Professor of Jewish Studies...

We are pleased to announce Professor Nan Goodman , Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English and Jewish Studies, recently published her newest book, The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination . The book is now avaliable for purchase online from...

The 2018 Haskins Medal is awarded to Professor Brian Catlos for his monograph, Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom , c. 1050-1614 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Below is the full announcement from the Medieval Academy of America. Awarding the coveted Charles Homer Haskins Medal to Brian Catlos for his Muslims...

Beverly Weber's most recent article on contemporary refugee migration in Germany, "The German Refugee 鈥淐risis鈥� after Cologne: The Race of Refugee Rights" has appeared in English Language Notes over the summer. She also conducted research in Germany this summer for her book manuscript Race, Rights and Refugee Migration. This fall...

Nan Goodman , Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English, publishes "Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather鈥檚 The Mystery of Israel鈥檚 Salvation, 鈥� in New Approaches to Puritan Studies , ed. Bryce Traister, Cambridge University Press.

Professor David Shneer had a busy September as he gave a keynote lecture at the European Day of Jewish Culture on the future of global Jewry. He then presented at the University of Kentucky launching their annual lecture series with a talk titled, 鈥淔rom Saving Soviet Jews to Being Saved...

Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Associate Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, was recently awarded a Provost Faculty Achievement Award, which is presented to selected faculty members who have offered recent significant publications or creative contributions in their academic fields. The award committee singled out...