Former JINELC M.A. student, Anruo Bao, to present The Image of China in the Yiddish Newspapers during the Russo-Japanese War as part of upcoming conference on China and Ashkenazic European Jewry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
