New York, NY, Nov 10, 2003 -- Jenna Weissman Joselit, Marsha L. Rozenblit, Moshe Bar-Asher, and Zvi Arie Steinfeld have joined the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies faculty as visiting professors during the 2003-2004 academic year. Jenna Joselit, who is teaching “The Making of American Jews” during the fall 2003 semester, taught as a visiting professor of American and Jewish studies at Princeton University last year. She has also taught Jewish and American studies at Yale University, Temple University, New York University, CUNY Graduate Center, and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Prof. Joselit has published nine books and numerous articles, and has worked as a curatorial consultant for various museums, including the Center for Jewish History in New York City, the Jewish Museum of Maryland, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Jewish Museum, and the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles. She received the 1995 National Jewish Book Award in History as well as numerous grants and fellowships. Prof. Joselit received a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and a master’s in history, a master’s in philosophy, and a doctorate in history from Columbia University. During the fall semester, Marsha Rozenblit is teaching “Jews in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.” She is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Jewish History at the University of Maryland, College Park, and has also taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Prof. Rozenblit has published three books, including Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg, Austria during World War I (Oxford University Press, 2001). She has also written 20 articles. Prof. Rozenblit received a BA from Barnard College and an MA and PhD from Columbia University. Moshe Bar-Asher is teaching Babylonian Aramaic during the fall semester. Prof. Bar-Asher chairs the Department of Hebrew Language at Hebrew University and has held numerous teaching positions in Israel, France, and the US, including Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harvard University, Hebrew College in Boston, the Jewish Theological Seminary, University of Paris VIII, and College de France in Paris. Prof. Bar-Asher is vice president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and director of the “North African Jewry” workshop at the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization. He also serves as editor of Language Studies and Massorot – Studies in Language Traditions, both published by the Institute of Jewish Studies at Hebrew University. Zvi Arie Steinfeld, a professor at Bar-Ilan University since 1965, is teaching Masekhet Horayot II at Revel. He received his LLB and LLM from Hebrew University and his doctorate in Talmudic literature from Yeshiva University. Prof. Steinfeld is the founder and editor of Sidra – Journal for the Study of Rabbinic Literature and former chairman of The Institute for the Research of Talmudic Literature. He has been a visiting professor at various institutions, including the Jewish Theological Seminary, Tel-Aviv University, Victoria College in Melbourne, Australia, University at Texas at Austin, and University of Michigan. Prof. Steinfeld is the author and editor of numerous books, including A People Alone and Modeh Be-Miktzat.