Faculty
Hilary Falb Kalisman has received a Hoover Institution Library & Archives Scholar Research Support Grant to conduct research on standardized testing in Iraq as well as American educational aid to the Middle East.
Elias Sacks recently published five articles in volume 23 of The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), the first comprehensive research tool to fully explore the history of interpretation and reception of
Yonatan Malin was awarded a Roser Visiting Artist Grant to bring the singer Anthony Mordechai Zvi Russell to campus for a Yiddish song residency this fall. Russell will be joined by accordionist and composer
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan received a faculty fellowship from CU's Benson Center to support a student research initiative in collaboration with the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin and the Open-
Elias Sacks recently taught a four-session course on Modern Judaism for the Wexner Heritage Program, a multi-year educational experience focused on Jewish learning and leadership training for volunteer leaders in communities
Samira K. Mehta has been awarded the American Jewish Archives Rabbi Joachim Prinz Memorial Fellowship for research in the 2025-2026 academic year.
The Program in Jewish Studies congratulates Hilary Falb Kalisman on receiving tenure and a promotion to the rank of Associate Professor!-
"During research for my book Beyond Chrismukkah about Christian-Jewish interfaith families, many interviewees wound up talking about their weddings and the rituals that they selected or innovated for the day to reflect their
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Hilary Falb Kalisman published a piece in The Forward about the recent attacks in Boulder. Read her thoughtful reflection here: "I teach Jewish History in Boulder. Is my community taking the wrong lessons from Sunday's
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An updated, revised and translated (into Russian) version of Professor Pegelow Kaplan's monograph The Language of Nazi Genocide has been published. The work is aimed at Russian readers "in the diaspora" from Israel to the Baltics