Columbia University, New York, NY
June 2001 Ph.D.
Dissertation: “The Politics of Yiddish: Noyekh Prilutski and the Folkspartey in Poland, 1900-1926”

October 1998 M.Phil.
Major Field: Yiddish Language and Culture
Minor Field: Modern and Eastern European Jewish History

May 1996 M.A. in Yiddish Studies
Master’s Thesis: “German Policy in Occupied Poland During WWI and the Struggle for Yiddish Secular Schools”

Yale University, New Haven, CT
May 1994 B.A. in International Studies & German Studies

Associate Professor
 

Courses taught recently:

2006 HUM 3841, The Emergence of Modern Yiddish Culture (3 credits)

2005-7 HUM 2850, The Jewish Experience (9 credits)

2004-5 YDSH 1000, Elementary Yiddish (6 credits)

2004, 2005 HUM 3829, Antisemitism from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust and Beyond (3 credits)

2003-4, 5-7 HIST 4385, The Emperors’ Jews: History and Culture of the Jews of Eastern Europe (6 credits)

2002-5 HIST 3860, Modern History of the Jews (6 credits)

2002-3 HUM 3850, Perspectives on the Holocaust (6 credits)

Directed Readings

2007-8 History of Yiddish Studies, Topics in Yiddish Linguistics (Graduate)

2004-5 Introduction to Israel Studies (Undergraduate)

2004 Historical Perspectives on Jewish Marriage (Graduate)

2003-4 Yiddish Culture in Vilnius, Lithuania (Undergraduate)

2002-3 History and Culture of Ukrainian Jewry (Graduate)

2007-2008 York University Merit Pay

2007 International Workshop on the Teaching of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Bar Ilan University and the Hebrew University

2007 Workshop on the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Israel Law and Culture, Brandeis University

2006 Salo Baron Dissertation Prize, Columbia University, Nominee

2004, 2005 Participant in Brandeis University Summer Institute for Israel Studies