Welcome

This promises to be a lively year! We welcome our newest professors, Dr. Susan Miller and Visiting Professor Dr. Guy Ben-Porat.

This year's courses range from Jewish popular culture and politics to film and history. The Jewish Studies Program also will host two academic workshops with local and visiting scholars. In the Fall, look for "Immigrant/Guest Workers, Rights and Citizenship," and in the Spring, our workshop will focus on gender, activism, and legal change. In both, we will consider Israel within a comparative perspective. Winter and Spring will also bring a two-part poetry series called "The Politics and Poetics of War and Peace in Israel." And please attend our second annual Undergraduate Colloquium where we'll present the Don Kunitz Award for excellence in Jewish Studies.

We continue to be grateful to the Koret Foundation, the Osher Foundation, the Taube Foundation, the Posen Foundation and Eda Pell for their ongoing support of our program.

Wishing you a good year,

Diane Wolf, Director

JS says good-bye to Guy Ben-Porat, Visiting Professor for 2008-9

JS welcomes Prof. Aziza Khazzoom, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Visiting Professor, in January 2010

Alon Raab's new book, The Global Game: Writers on Soccer, has hit the news.

David Biale's Blood and Belief has been translated and published in French as Le Sang et la Foi (Paris: Bayard).

New JS Professor. Our recent addition to JS, Professor Moulie Vidas, will begin in Fall 2009

Congratulations to Kimmi Bell, 2009 winner of the Don Kunitz Award for Academic Excellence in Jewish Studies!

Ari Y. Kelman's Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States (UC Press) is now available.

JS welcomes Susan Miller (History), our newest addition to the JS faculty.

JS welcomes Guy Ben-Porat (International Relations), Visiting Professor for 2008-09.

JS welcomes Sara Anderson, our new Graduate Assistant.