In addition to its teaching and research missions, the Borns JSP faculty places a significant emphasis on serving broad constituencies outside of the classroom. If you are interested getting a speaker for your organization, please contact the department at iujsp@indiana.edu or call
(812) 855-0453
Joëlle Bahloul: Jews in contemporary Western Europe, Jewish memory, Jewish Cultures from Arab Lands, Old Jewish Quarters in Europe
Jack Bielasiak: Politics of genocide; international responses to genocide; teaching the Holocaust including historical, political, and personal approaches to the examination of the Holocaust
Judah Cohen: Music in Judaism; Jewish folklore, ethnology, and identity; Jews in Latin America; musical diasporas — Blacks and Jews
Michelle Facos: Jewish Art; Jews in Scandinavia before 1915
Halina Goldberg: 19th century Jewish-Polish musicians
Sarah Imhoff: American Judaism; Judaism and Gender
Stephen Katz: Modern Hebrew literature and culture; contemporary Israeli literature; the fiction of Amos Oz; S.Y. Agnon; Hebrew literature in America; Hebrew poetry; contemporary Israeli culture; history of the Hebrew language
Dov-Ber Kerler: Yiddish linguistics, culture and literature
Aziza Khazzoom: Israel Studies
Nancy Levene: Modern Jewish thought
Shaul Magid: Contemporary Jewish mysticism in Israel and America; Judaism, gender, and sexual orientation; Zionism in the American diaspora; the crisis in Israel/Palestine; contemporary spirituality in American Judaism
Herbert Marks: Biblical and literary studies
Jason Mokhtarian: Ancient Judaism; rabbinics; Judaism in Ancient Iran
Michael Morgan: Jewish Philosophy
Eva Mroczek: Second Temple Judaism; Dead Sea Scrolls
Mark Roseman: History of the Holocaust; History of anti-semitism; German-Jewish history
Alvin H. Rosenfeld: Anti-Zionism and anti-semitism; Holocaust literature
Jonathan Simons: Images of War and Peace in Israel
Dina Spechler: Arab-Israeli relations
Ariann Stern-Gottschalk: Yiddish in Poland
Jeffrey Veidlinger: Marc Chagall and the Yiddish avant-garde; Jewish history and modern Jewish identity; voices from the shtetl; Yiddish ethnography in eastern Europe; how the shtetl remembers the Holocaust; ideas of Jewish nationhood: past and present; anti-semitism in eastern Europe: new and old; Yiddish theater and the Russian revolution
Bronislava Volková: Central European Jewish writers in translation
Dror Wahrman: Israeli politics; Israeli-Arab conflict; history of Jerusalem
