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Cohen Publishes Essay in Women in Judaism

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Dr. Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen, a professor of Hebrew and director of Hebrew language and literature at Stern College for Women, recently published an essay in Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Titled “The Non-Chosen Body: Poetics and Politics in Alona Kimhi’s Lily La Tigresse,” the essay appears in the

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Zimmerman Delivers Lecture on Polish Underground

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Dr. Joshua Zimmerman, Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History, gave a lecture on his book, Wounds of History: The Polish Underground and the Jews during World War II, on November 17, 2016, at the Annual 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies held at the University of California-Los […]

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Fine’s Book Reprinted

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Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies, has had his 1997 book, This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue During the Greco-Roman Period, republished by Wipf and Stock Publishers, located in Oregon.

The reprint includes a new postscript, which describes the […]

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Shires Delivers Lecture at Victorian Studies Conference

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Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and chair of the English department at Stern College for Women, spoke on November 3, 2016, at the North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on “Nineteenth-Century Reforms in Fine Arts Observing.”

Her talk […]

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Dos Santos Recognized as Outstanding Referee

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Dr. Lea Ferreira dos Santos, professor of physics at Stern College for Women, has been recognized by the American Physical Society (APS) as an Outstanding Referees for her work as an anonymous peer reviewer on behalf of the Physical Review journals. Dos Santos was chosen by the journal editors […]

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Fitzgerald Authors Two Chapters

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Dr. Lauren Fitzgerald, chair of the Yeshiva College English Department and director of the Wilf Campus Writing Center, coauthored a chapter for the edited collection A Critical Look at Institutional Mission: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators.

The chapter,“Negotiating Institutional Missions: Writing Center Tutors as Rhetorical Actors,” written with Andrea […]

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