Facaulty Achievements
Faculty in the Jewish Studies Program are frequent contributors to local and national conferences, publications, and events. See below for recent and upcoming faculty achievements.
Arthur Gross-Schaefer:
Rabbi Arthur Gross-Schaefer's Reflections of the Ivy League Intercollegiate Leadership Colloquium at Brown University , February 2012
Holli Levitsky:
Speaker at the 35th Annual Catholic-Jewish Women's Conference, Finding Hope in Challenging Times: Gathering Strength From Our Traditions, on Nov. 11 2011
Monica Osborne:
"Laughter and Trembling: The Short Fiction of Steve Stern and Nathan Englander," in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative, ed. Derek Parker Royal (2011, Purdue University Press)
"Springtime for Hitler" (Review of Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany by Rudolph Herzog) in The New Republic, Aug. 22 2011
Saba Soomekh:
Author of the book From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture (forthcoming, State University of New York Press)
Featured in and served as consultant to the PBS documentary "The Iranian Americans," air date December 18, 2012.