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Alouf, HlLLA Nava (Ph.D. 2017, New York University) \"Halokh ve-daber\": Elijah the Prophet as a Bearer of Wisdom in Rabbinic Literature Adviser: Lawrence H. Schiffman Burrus, Sean P. (Ph.D. 2017, Duke University) Remembering the Righteous: Sarcophagus Sculpture and Jewish Patrons in the Roman World Advisers: Eric M. Meyers;Mary T. Boatwright Cohen, Madeleine Atkins (Ph.D. 2016, University of California, Berkeley) Here and Now: The Modernist Poetics of Do'ikayt Adviser: Chana Kronfeld Dale, Gordon a. (Ph.D. 2017, City University of New York) Music in Haredi Jewish Life: Liquid Modernity and the Negotiation of Boundaries in Greater New York Adviser: Jane C. Sugarman Dougherty, Matthew William (Ph.D. 2017, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Land of the Jewish Indians: How the Hebrew Bible Made Race and Territory in the Early United States Adviser: Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp Downing, Jamie L. (Ph.D. 2017, University of Nebraska) \"Whatever We May Be We May Be, but Jews Are What We Are\": Jewish Rhetoric and the Construction of Great Plains and Upper Midwestern Jewish Communities Adviser: Ronald E. Lee Falk, BROOKE (Ph.D. 2017, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey) Assaults on the Faith: Imagining Jews and Creating Christians in the Late Middle Ages Adviser: Laura Weigert Galoob, Robert Paul (Ph.D. 2017, Graduate Theological Union) Post Hoc Propter Hoc: The Impact of Martyrdom on the Development of Hasidut Ashkenaz Adviser: Deena Aranoff Geiger, Stephen H. (Ph.D. 2017, University of Wisconsin, Madison) The Conquered Conquers: The Art of Exile in Josephus Adviser: Jeffrey Beneker Glass, Jordan (Ph.D. 2017, Fordham University) Language and Education: Emmanuel Levinas on Learning Ethical Engagement Adviser: Christina M. Gschwandtner Halpern, STEFANIE (Ph.D. 2017, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Crossing Over: From the Yiddish Rialto to the American Stage Adviser: Edna Nahshon Jampol, Noah Simon (Ph.D. 2017, Catholic University of America) Science Fiction as Ethical Response to the Holocaust: Philip Roth and Jewish American Fiction Adviser: Ernest Suarez Kanengisser, Dubi (Ph.D. 2016, University of Toronto) Democracy, Identity, and Security in Israel's Ethnic Democracy: The Ideational Underpinnings of Institutional Change Adviser: Paul Kingston Kirzane, Jessica (Ph.D. 2017, Columbia University) The Melting Plot: Interethnic Romance in Jewish American Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century Adviser: Jeremy A. Dauber Kremnitzer, Yuval (Ph.D. 2017, Columbia University) How to Believe in Nothing: Moses Mendelssohn's Subjectivity and the Empty Core of Tradition Adviser: Dan Miron Kushkova, Anna (Ph.D. 2017, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Navigating the Planned Economy: Accommodation and Survival in Moscow's Postwar \"Soviet Jewish Pale\" Adviser: Marcie Ferris Lacoste, Nathalie (Ph.D. 2016, University of Toronto) Waters of the Exodus: Jewish Experiences with Water in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt Adviser: Judith H. Newman Lafitaga, Elekosi F. (Ph.D. 2017, Graduate Theological Union) Apocalyptic, Here and Now: The Book of Dreams (1 En 83-90) and the Rhetoric of Apocalyptic Discourse in the Gospel of Matthew Adviser: Eugene Eung-Chu Park Lee, Michael Adam (Ph.D. 2017, University of Colorado, Boulder) The Politics of Antisemitism in Denver, Colorado, 1898-1984 Advisers: Thomas G. Andrews;Thomas W. Zeiler Levin, Sarah Frances (Ph.D. 2017, University of California, Berkeley) Narrative Remembrance: Close Encounters between Muslims and Jews in Morocco's Atlas Mountains Advisers: Chana Kronfeld;Charles L. Briggs Parshall, Josh (Ph.D. 2017, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Yiddish Politics in Southern States: The Southern District of the Arbeter Ring, 1908-1949 Adviser: Marcie Ferri Pickut, William Douglas (Ph.D. 2017, University of Chicago) Literary Genres in Poetic Texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls Advisers: Dennis G. Pardee;Norman Golb Polansky, CLAIRE (Ph.D. 2017, California Institute of Integral Studies) An Exploration of the Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian Relationship to the Land of Israel and Friedrich Nietzsche's Influence on the Development of Zionism: Toward a Revaluation of Values, a Transpersonal Ecosophy, and a New Myth of Zion Adviser: Craig Chalquist Schumer, Nathan Still (Ph.D. 2017, Columbia University) The Memory of the Temple in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature Adviser: Seth Schwartz Shubowitz, Devorah B. (Ph.D. 2017, Indiana University) Interpretation without Representation: Jewish Women's Sacred Text Study in New York Egalitarian Communities Advisers: Sara Friedman;Daniel F. Suslak Skloot, JOSEPH A. (Ph.D. 2017, Columbia University) Printing, Hebrew Book Culture, and Sefer Hasedim Adviser: Elisheva Carlebach Compiled by Bonnie L. Blankenship

After carefully planning a visit with Aly and Emma, Yasmin is disappointed to see that they want to play on their own, but a creative compromise may make everyone happy.

According to this comparatist eschatology, the discipline in its present form must perish, it must be \"purified,\" in order for an alternative future to exist. To teach comparative and World Literature is to adopt, iterate or reject a number of theoretical positions. [...]the fetishism of crisis and ruptures, when used as epistemological strategies from which the discipline articulates its theoretical positions and constantly seeks to reinvent itself, should be extended, similarly, to moments of disruption and crisis that emerge in classroom settings.\\n Part of this comparative strategy involved alerting my students to the dangers of seeing the world through \"a single story.\"

The essay examines the sometimes synchronistic relationships in Iranian Jewish American literature between reading practices, aesthetics, and politics from the Iran hostage crisis to the War on Terror. As such, Mirakhor describes key features of this canon (its articulations of an imaginary homeland, struggles with assimilation, and belonging neither here nor there as Iranian Jews), as well as its relationship to the larger canons of Middle Eastern/Arab diasporic literatures and American literatures. Examining the works of writers such as Gina Nahai and Roya Hakakian, as well as the Bravo TV series The Shahs of Sunset, Mirakhor critiques the political and ideological dangers of neo-Orientalist and neoliberal rhetorical practices, as well as revealing some of the untethered possibilities in creating more multifaceted, nuanced articulations of “Iranian” and “Jewish” in the United States in the twenty-first century.

Why do novels and studies originating in the United States and Europe sympathetically depict Middle Eastern women who commit or support forms of violence identified as terrorist? This article draws on scholarship on cosmopolitanism and the sentimental novel, as well as on novelistic and journalistic accounts of Palestinian female suicide bombers from the United States and Algeria/France: Barbara Victor's Army of Roses: Inside the World of Palestinian Suicide Bombers (Rodale, 2003) and Yasmina Khadra's The Attack (Doubleday, 2005). It argues that sentimental terror narratives use gendered, maternal imagery to produce a liberal stance on terrorism that combines sympathetic comprehension of the forces that foster violence with condemnation of the violence itself. The article uses Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa's Madih al-Karahiya (In Praise of Hatred, 2006) as an alternative literary depiction of gender and violence, aimed at a Syrian audience, that produces non-normative forms of sympathy to foster national reconciliation after civil conflict.

A young Muslim refugee finds a new family in America, until the aftermath of 9/11 tests him as never before.

Americans did not have the luxury of merely contemplating the Muslim world between 1785 and 1800. Over a hundred American sailors were captive in Algiers in this period. The escalation and temporary resolution of this dispute informed the imagery of Muslims in hundreds of articles published in American magazines. These Muslim people and places ranged across centuries of time, thousands of miles, and multiple ethnicities, and the images did not conform to one or even a few models. American magazine readers learned that Muslims were as diverse and complex as they themselves. This study considers much of the magazine archive from this period and finds clear patterns that parallel the historical experience of America with Algiers. Though the non-Barbary regions (Persia, Arabia, and Turkey) remained objects of fascination and even delight, the Barbary Coast (generally, the northern African coast) emerged as a pragmatic political concern by the mid-1790s. These magazines are a significant source about a crucial moment in American nation-formation. Muslims were an ethnic, religious, and cultural Other by which Americans began to imagine themselves. Though nineteenth-century Americans learned to think of Muslims through the familiar Orientalist categories, this periodical archive reveals an anxious, uncertain dance before the eventual swagger.