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WELCOME to the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, a center for research and study of Judaism in all its complexity. Our multi-disciplinary center boasts a faculty with expertise from across the humanities, excellent library resources, and a vibrant student life. Students interested in Jewish Studies as a graduate or undergraduate field of study should contact us or follow the links on this page. (more).
Summer Courses:
Want to take Hebrew or Jewish Studies courses over the summer? You're in luck! We're offering multiple classes this summer term. Click here for more information.
New Hires:
Matthew Suriano is from the Chicago-land area and his undergraduate degree is in History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He began his graduate studies in Israel and, while there studied at Jerusalem University College and the Hebrew University. He has also been a fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. He has participated in several archaeological excavations in Israel, most recently at Tel Burna near Beit Guvrin. His Ph.D., in Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitics, is from UCLA's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
Check out Professor Suriano's recent mention in The Diamondback!
Agi Legutko specializes in modern Yiddish literature, language and culture and women and gender studies, spirit possession in Judaism, as well as in American and European modern Jewish literature, theater, film and folklore. She is also interested in modern Jewish history, the Holocaust, memory, trauma and performance studies. She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation on dybbuk possession trope in twenty and twenty-first Yiddish, English, Hebrew and Polish language Jewish literature as key to modern Jewish identity at Columbia University. |
