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Freedman Receives Fellowship to Study History of Enlightenment Europe

By On September 1, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jeffrey Freedman, professor of history at Yeshiva College, received a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. The fellowship included a generous stipend to support his current research project on the history of fear in Enlightenment Europe.

This research follows from […]

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Jacobson Publishes Essays

By On August 31, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Joanne Jacobson, professor of English and associate dean for academic affairs at Yeshiva College, recently published essays from her book-in-process on chronic illness: “If My Disease Were an Animal, What Would It Be?” in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, “Written in Blood” in Southwest Review, and “Mirror Writing” […]

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Shires Publishes Essays, Edits Volume

By On August 16, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor and Chair of the English Department at Stern College, recently edited and wrote the preface for Victorians Reading the Romantics: Essays by U. C. Knoepflmacher (Ohio State University Press), a volume which offers a new perspective on the publishing career of her husband, a leading critic […]

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Glanz Publishes Book on Speaking

By On July 19, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jeffrey Glanz, professor of Jewish education at Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, recently published a book with Motivational Press. Titled ENGAGE: Teach Don’t Just Present, the book offers several concrete examples of how speakers can increase audience participation and improve message retention.

One example Glanz covers in […]

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Prodan Publishes Mathematical Physics Book

By On March 10, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Emil Prodan, professor of physics, recently published a book on mathematical physics with Springer International Physics. Titled Bulk and Boundary Invariants for Complex Topological Insulators: From K-Theory to Physics and co-authored with Dr. Hermann Schulz-Baldes, professor at the University of Erlangen, the book offers an overview of rigorous results on fermionic topological insulators from the complex […]

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Zimmerman to Deliver Lectures on Recent Book

By On March 3, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Joshua Zimmerman, Eli and Diana Zborowski Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History, will deliver three upcoming lectures focusing on his recent book, The Polish Underground and the Jews: 1939-1945, which uses a variety of archival documents, testimonies, and memoirs to offer a careful, dispassionate analysis of the Polish Underground’s varied reactions to the catastrophe that […]

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Kanarfogel Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Jewish History

By On January 27, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law, has been named as one of the two editors-in-chief of the prestigious academic journal Jewish History. Members of the editorial board of Jewish History are drawn from leading universities throughout the world.

Rabbi Kanarfogel also served recently as the […]

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Fine Contributes Essay to Book on Ancient Jewish Art

By On December 25, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, contributed an essay to the forthcoming work Viewing Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology: VeHinnei Rachel – Essays in Honor of Rachel Hachlili (Koninklijke Brill, 2016). Fine’s essay, titled “The Open Torah Ark: A Jewish Iconographic Type in Late Antique Rome and Sardis,” discusses […]

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Glanz Co-Edits Book on Theory and Practice of Supervision

By On December 23, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jeffrey Glanz, professor of Jewish education at Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, is a lead co-editor of a new book, Supervision: New Perspectives for Theory and Practice (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, October 2015). The book discusses the multiple contexts in which supervision unfolds alongside trends including high-stakes testing, the uses […]

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Schram’s Book Featured as Cover Story in New Jersey Jewish Standard

By On December 16, 2015 · Leave a Comment

A recent book published by Peninnah Schram, professor emerita of speech and drama at YU’s Stern College for Women, was featured as the cover story of a recent edition of The New Jersey Jewish Standard. Titled Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage: Folktales, Legends and Letters and co-written by Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, the book […]

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