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Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano
Early modern Ottoman history and intellectual history Assistant Professor of History
oscaragm@sas.upenn.edu215-898-0421
College Hall 208 DRead Bio
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Anne Albert
Klatt Family Director for Public Programs, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Lecturer in the Department of History
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Joseph Benatov
Director, Modern Hebrew Language Program Lecturer in Foreign Languages, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Associate Director, Jewish Studies Program
708 Williams HallRead Bio
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Alexander Botwinik
Lecturer in Yiddish
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Daisy Braverman
Lecturer in Judeo-Spanish
Penn Language CenterRead Bio
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Natalie Dohrmann
Associate Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies; Coeditor of the Jewish Quarterly Review Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies
dohrmann@sas.upenn.edu215-746-1290
The Katz Center, 420 Walnut StreetRead Bio
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Laura Newman Eckstein
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Curator of Digital Humanities
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Al Filreis
Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House Kelly Professor of English
afilreis@english.upenn.edu(215) 573-9749
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust WalkRead Bio
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Talya Fishman
Associate Professor of Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
tfishman@sas.upenn.edu(215) 898-5837
706 Williams HallRead Bio
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Nili Gold
Professor of Modern Hebrew Language and Literature
niligold@sas.upenn.edu(215) 573-5312
707 Williams HallRead Bio
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Simcha Gross
Assistant Professor of Ancient Rabbinics
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Josef Gulka
Circulation & Stack Manager
jgulka@pobox.upenn.edu(215-746-1290)
206 Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic StudiesRead Bio
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Kathryn Hellerstein
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures (Yiddish)
khellers@sas.upenn.edu(215) 898-7103
748 Williams HallRead Bio
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Timothy Hogue
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israelite History and Culture
709 Williams HallRead Bio
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Joshua Jeffers
Lecturer in Akkadian and Biblical Hebrew
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Hope Jones
Project Archivist
501 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library CenterRead Bio
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Arthur Kiron
Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections
kiron@pobox.upenn.edu(215) 573-7431
205 Van Pelt Library on MTR; 202 CAJS Library on WFRead Bio
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Louis Meiselman
Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian
501 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
201 Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic StudiesRead Bio
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Ibrahim Miari
Lecturer in Foreign Languages (Hebrew Language)
imiari@sas.upenn.edu215-898-6037
708 Williams HallRead Bio
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Benjamin Nathans
Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Associate Professor of History
bnathans@history.upenn.edu(215) 898-4958
206C College HallRead Bio
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Bruce Nielsen
Judaica Public Services Librarian & Archivist
bnielsen@pobox.upenn.edu (215-746-1290)
203 Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic StudiesRead Bio
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Heather Sharkey
Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
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Jasmin Shinohara
Hebraica Cataloging Librarian
jshino@upenn.edu(215-746-6397)
131 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center Read Bio
Joshua Teplitsky
Joseph Meyerhoff Chair in Modern Jewish History Associate Professor, Ruth Meltzer Director of the Jewish Studies Program
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Chrissy Walsh
Administrative Coordinator, Jewish Studies Program
chwalsh@sas.upenn.edu215-898-6654
711 Williams HallRead Bio
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Liliane Weissberg
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences Professor of German and Comparative Literature
lweissbe@sas.upenn.edu(215) 898-7332
747 Williams HallRead Bio
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Steven Weitzman
Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures Ella Darivoff; Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies
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Beth S. Wenger
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History
bwenger@sas.upenn.edu(215) 898-5702
320 College HallRead Bio
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Avishalom Westreich
Katz Center Fellow College of Law and Business, Israel, Israel Institute Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Roberta and Stanley Bogen Visiting Scholar
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Julia Wilker
Associate Professor of Classical Studies Chair, Graduate Group in Ancient History
wilker@sas.upenn.edu215-746-7792
227 Cohen HallRead Bio
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Barbara Zelizer
Professor of Communication and Raymond Williams Chair of Communication
bzelizer@asc.upenn.edu(215) 898-4964
304 AnnenbergRead Bio