Jewish Studies Faculty

Al Filreis, Kelly Professor of English; Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House

Talya Fishman, Associate Professor of Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods; Acting Undergraduate Director of Jewish Studies (Fall 2007)

Nili Gold, Assistant Professor of Modern Hebrew Language and Literature

Jessica Goldberg, Assistant Professor of Medieval History

Kathryn Hellerstein, Ruth Meltzer Senior Lecturer in Yiddish; Undergraduate Director of the Jewish Studies Program

Arthur Kiron, Schotteinstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections; Adjunct Assistant Professor of History

Robert A. Kraft, Emeritus Professor of Early Varieties of Judaism and Christianity

Ian S. Lustick, Bess W. Heyman Chair in Political Science

Benjamin Nathans, Associate Professor of History (on leave Spring 2008)

Joshua Perelman, Post-Doctoral Fellow of American Jewish History

Annette Y. Reed, Assistant Professor in Religious Studies

Ruth Rin, Hebraica Cataloging Librarian

David B. Ruderman, Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Jewish History; Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Nechama Sataty, Senior Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Language

Jonathan Steinberg, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History

David Stern, Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew (on leave Spring 2008)

Jeffrey Tigay, A.M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Language & Literature

Liliane Weissberg, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences; Professor of German and Comparative Literature; Graduate Chair in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures

Beth Wenger, Katz Family Associate Professor of American Jewish History; Director of the Jewish Studies Program; History Undergraduate Chair

Barbie Zelizer, Professor of Communication; Raymond Williams Chair of Communication

Visiting Faculty

, lecturer in Yiddish, is currently teaching the Intermediate Yiddish course. In addition to teaching Yiddish at Penn, Alexander teaches music and choir at Adath Israel, music at Har Zion Temple, the Kaiserman JCC, and choir at Beth Am Israel. Alexander leads his singers in many concerts including, most recently, a well-received concert of Yiddish and Sephardic songs for the Judaic Studies Program of Drexel University. Other performances this past year were at Gratz College, Haverford College and Yiddish Week in Copake, NY. Alexander has been recording and will be directing the music for a documentary film, which is being produced by the Judaic Studies Program of Drexel University. In addition, Alexander has been awarded a grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture to prepare his father's musical compositions for publication. Office Hours: TR 11:30-12 and by appt. in 751 Williams Hall.

is a fellow at Penn's Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. He is a senior lecturer in the Dept. of Hebrew Literature and the Program of Folklore Studies at Ben Gurion University, Israel. His main field of interest and publications is Jewish occultism - magic, demonology and divination - in late Antiquity and early Middle Ages. He prepared a critical edition of the magical treatise called The Sword of Moses (Harba de-Moshe) and is the author of the forthcoming Early Jewish Magic: Study, Method, and Sources. In the last few years he is carrying out a field work on current manifestation of magic in Israel.

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