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
Available speakers:
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
Halina Goldberg: 19th century Jewish-Polish musicians
Susan Gubar: Literature of the Holocaust
Chaya Halberstam: Divine justice and retribution in the Hebrew Bible and/or early Judaism; society and culture of the early rabbis; the reinvention of Judaism after the destruction of the Temple; rabbinic midrash; guilt and atonement in the Bible and early Judaism
Bert Harrill: Early Judaism
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
Matthias Lehmann: Sephardic studies; Jews of Islam
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
Mark Roseman: History of the Holocaust; History of anti-semitism; German-Jewish history
Alvin H. Rosenfeld: Anti-Zionism and anti-semitism; Holocaust literature
Miryam Segal: Modern Hebrew literature
Dina Spechler: Arab-Israeli relations
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
Steven Weitzman: Hebrew Bible and early biblical interpretation
