From the monthly archives: February 2016

Prof. Hidary Lands Prestigious Fellowship at Harvard

On February 16, 2016 · In Faculty, Student and Alumni Profiles, News, Research

Associate Professor of Jewish History Richard Hidary has been accepted as a fellow for The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica.  The entire Revel community congratulates Prof. Hidary on this impressive achievment!

The theme for the Starr Fellowship is going to be “Jews in the Classical World.” Prof. Hidary will […]

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Congratulations to Revel Doctoral Student, Aryeh Tuchman, on His Recent Publication

On February 8, 2016 · In Publications, Uncategorized

Revel doctoral student, Aryeh Tuchman recently had a chapter published in a new book edited by Alvin Rosenfeld and published by Indiana University Press. The book is called Deciphering the New Antisemitism, and Aryeh’s chapter is titled “Generational Changes in the Holocaust Denial Movement in the United States.”

The chapter is a reworking of a

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Doctoral Student, Yael Landman, Publishes Article in Vetus Testamentum

On February 8, 2016 · In Publications

Congratulations to Revel PhD student Yael Landman!

Yael Landman’s article “On Lips and Tongues in Ancient Hebrew” was recently published in Vetus Testamentum (Vol. 66 [2016]). The article traces the semantic development of the words śāp̄ah ‘lip’ and lāšon ‘tongue’ through Biblical, Late Biblical, Qumran, and Mishnaic Hebrew. Two semantic changes occupy the focus of this analysis: First, by […]

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Dr. Shuchat Lecture Summary and Source Sheet – 02/02/16

On February 8, 2016 · In Lectures and Activities

On Tuesday, February 2nd, Rabbi Dr. Raphael Shuchat delivered a special guest lecture entitled “Was the World Created in Six Days? The Views of Medieval Kabbalists.” Rabbi Dr. Raphael Shuchat has been a lecturer at the School for Basic Jewish Studies of Bar-Ilan University for over twenty years and headed the Beit Midrash for Giyur […]

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