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Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano

Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano

Early modern Ottoman history and intellectual history Assistant Professor of History

215-898-0421

College Hall 208 DRead Bio

Anne Oravetz Albert

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

Joseph Benatov

Director, Modern Hebrew Language Program Lecturer in Foreign Languages, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Associate Director, Jewish Studies Program

712 Williams HallRead Bio

Alexander Botwinik

Lecturer in Yiddish

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Daisy Braverman

Daisy Braverman

Lecturer in Judeo-Spanish

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Natalie Dohrmann

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

215-746-1290

The Katz Center, 420 Walnut StreetRead Bio

Laura N. Eckstein

Laura Newman Eckstein

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Curator of Digital Humanities

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Al Filreis

Al Filreis

Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House Kelly Professor of English

(215) 573-9749

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust WalkRead Bio

Talya Fishman

Talya Fishman

Associate Professor of Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

(215) 898-5837

706 Williams HallRead Bio

Nili Gold

Nili Gold

Professor of Modern Hebrew Language and Literature

(215) 573-5312

707 Williams HallRead Bio

Simcha Gross

Simcha Gross

Assistant Professor of Ancient Rabbinics

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Josef Gulka

Josef Gulka

Circulation & Stack Manager

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206 Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic StudiesRead Bio

Kathryn Hellerstein

Kathryn Hellerstein

Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures (Yiddish)

(215) 898-7103

748 Williams HallRead Bio

Timothy Hogue

Timothy Hogue

Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israelite History and Culture

709 Williams HallRead Bio

Joshua Jeffers

Joshua Jeffers

Lecturer in Akkadian and Biblical Hebrew

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Hope Jones

Hope Jones

Project Archivist

501 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library CenterRead Bio

Arthur Kiron

Arthur Kiron

Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections

(215) 573-7431

205 Van Pelt Library on MTR; 202 CAJS Library on WFRead Bio

Martina Mampieri

Martina Mampieri

Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow

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Marina Mayorski

Marina Mayorski

Goldin Family Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-2025

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Louis Meiselman

Louis Meiselman

Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian

(215-573-8086)

501 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
201 Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic StudiesRead Bio

Ibrahim Miari

Ibrahim Miari

Lecturer in Foreign Languages (Hebrew Language)

215-898-6037

708 Williams HallRead Bio

Benjamin Nathans

Benjamin Nathans

Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Associate Professor of History

(215) 898-4958

206C College HallRead Bio

Bruce Nielsen

Bruce Nielsen

Judaica Public Services Librarian & Archivist

(215-746-1290)

203 Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic StudiesRead Bio

Heather Sharkey

Heather Sharkey

Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

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Jasmin Shinohara

Jasmin Shinohara

Hebraica Cataloging Librarian

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131 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center Read Bio

Joshua Teplitsky

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

215-898-6654

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Liliane Weissberg

Liliane Weissberg

Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences Professor of German and Comparative Literature

(215) 898-7332

747 Williams HallRead Bio

Steven Weitzman

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

Beth S. Wenger

Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History

(215) 898-5702

320 College HallRead Bio

Julia Wilker

Julia Wilker

Associate Professor of Classical Studies Chair, Graduate Group in Ancient History

215-746-7792

227 Cohen HallRead Bio

Barbie Zelizer

Barbara Zelizer

Professor of Communication and Raymond Williams Chair of Communication

(215) 898-4964

304 AnnenbergRead Bio