Skip to main content
  • Arts & Sciences
  • Washington University in St. Louis

Search form

Home

Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Main Menu

  • People
  • Undergraduate
  • Graduate
  • Arabic
  • Hebrew
  • SALC
  • Study Abroad
  • Events

You are here

Home / News

News

March 23, 2018

Toward More Expansive Perspectives on Gender, Authority, and Role Modeling

by Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi

Rebecca Epstein-Levi, Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, has published the article "Toward More Expansive Perspectives on Gender, Authority, and Role Modeling" in the most recent issue of Gleanings, the e-journal of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Theological Seminary.

  • Read more about Toward More Expansive Perspectives on Gender, Authority, and Role Modeling
January 25, 2018

Maimonides and the Merchants

On Monday, January 29, Mark R. Cohen, Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor Emeritus of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton, and a renowned historian of Jews in the medieval Islamic world, will discuss his recent book, Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World.

  • Read more about Maimonides and the Merchants
December 12, 2017

Routledge publishes collection including essays from two alumni

Edited by alumnus Jacob Ari Labendz, Jewish Property After 1945: Cultures and Economies of Ownership, Loss, Recovery, and Transfer, includes contributions from Labendz, alumna Sara T. Jay, among others. 

  • Read more about Routledge publishes collection including essays from two alumni
November 20, 2015

Professor Hayrettin Yucesoy, Ph.D., has article published in PMLA

Language of Empire: Politics of Arabic and Persian in the Abbasid World

This essay aims to contribute to current studies of language and empire by considering Arabic and Persian in the ninth and tenth centuries.

  • Read more about Professor Hayrettin Yucesoy, Ph.D., has article published in PMLA
October 23, 2015

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Anika Walke!

Assistant Professor Anika Walke has received a 2015 AWSS Heldt Prize for her article “Jewish Youth in the Minsk Ghetto: How Age and Gender Mattered,” published last year in Kritika.

  • Read more about Congratulations to Assistant Professor Anika Walke!
September 24, 2015

Anika Walke, PhD, is showcased on Oxford University Press's blog

When everywhere is a grave: remembering WWII casualties in Belarus
  • Read more about Anika Walke, PhD, is showcased on Oxford University Press's blog
September 21, 2015

Saul Noam Zaritt, PhD, Launches Digital Journal of Yiddish Studies

Saul Zaritt is the Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
  • Read more about Saul Noam Zaritt, PhD, Launches Digital Journal of Yiddish Studies
March 27, 2015

Professor Erin McGlothlin and Professor Anika Walke awarded grant from the Holocaust Educational Foundation

Professor Erin McGlothlin and Professor Anika Walke have been awarded a 2-year, $8,000 grant from the Holocaust Educational Foundation to help defray the cost of student travel associated with their Freshman Focus program The History, Memory,

  • Read more about Professor Erin McGlothlin and Professor Anika Walke awarded grant from the Holocaust Educational Foundation
March 18, 2015

In US, a growing influence of India's cultural diversity

by M J Warsi

Once confined largely to India and surrounding South Asian countries, languages have started to spread around the world, along with its speakers. People from India have travelled to the US in the past half century in search of economic opportunities, and in so doing have brought Indian languages with them. Regardless of one’s relation to Indian culture and its linguistic and religious diversity, it is virtually impossible to escape its influence in the US.

  • Read more about In US, a growing influence of India's cultural diversity
November 17, 2014

Professor Mohammad J Warsi interviewed in City 360 Newspaper

Mohammad J. Warsi, City 360

Mohammad J. Warsi, PhD, is interviewed for a special report in the New Delhi newspaper City 360.  This article covers topics related to Professor Warsi's wok in South Asian languages and linguistics, further outlining his recent discovery of a new dialect of Urdu.

  • Read more about Professor Mohammad J Warsi interviewed in City 360 Newspaper

Pages

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • next ›
  • last »
  • Contact Us
  • Site Map
  • News
  • Newsletters
  • Publications
  • Outside Opportunities
  • Wastelands Seminar

Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures | Washington University in St. Louis | Campus Box 1121 | Busch Hall Rm 114 | One Brookings Drive | St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 | (314) 935-8567 | jinelc@wustl.edu