{"id":2867,"date":"2024-07-22T11:46:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/?page_id=2867"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:29:50","slug":"our-people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/our-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty and Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kt-accordion-id2867_765a98-b8 .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:10px;}.kt-accordion-id2867_765a98-b8 .kt-accordion-panel-inner{border-top:0px solid transparent;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;background:#ffffff;padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);}.kt-accordion-id2867_765a98-b8 .wp-block-kadence-pane 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Faculty<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image img-thumbnail rounded-0\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/CEhrlich_0472c-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/CEhrlich_0472c-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/CEhrlich_0472c-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/CEhrlich_0472c-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/CEhrlich_0472c-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/CEhrlich_0472c-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Carl S. Ehrlich <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:ehrlich@yorku.ca\">Carl S. Ehrlich<\/a>&nbsp;(Ph.D. Harvard \u201991) is Professor of Hebrew Bible and former director of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University in Toronto. Among his areas of interest are synchronic, diachronic, and contextual approaches to the biblical text and Israelite civilization. <br><br>His most recent publications include the (co-)edited collections&nbsp;<em>From an Antique Land: An Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature<\/em>&nbsp;(2009) and&nbsp;<em>Purity, Holiness, and Identity in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Memory of Susan Haber<\/em>&nbsp;(2013). <br><br>Current projects include a cultural history of Moses and a commentary on Chronicles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image img-thumbnail rounded-0\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2023\/01\/MarcHerman_0374c-745x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2023\/01\/MarcHerman_0374c-745x1024.jpg 745w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2023\/01\/MarcHerman_0374c-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2023\/01\/MarcHerman_0374c-1117x1536.jpg 1117w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2023\/01\/MarcHerman_0374c-1489x2048.jpg 1489w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2023\/01\/MarcHerman_0374c-scaled.jpg 1861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Marc Herman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto: hermanm@yorku.ca\">Marc Herman<\/a> is an assistant professor at York University in the Department of Humanities. His research focuses on the interactions of Jewish and Islamic intellectual history in the medieval Mediterranean, with a particular interest in the overlapping sacred histories of Jews and Muslims. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he has held postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia University, Fordham University, Harvard University, the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale Law School. He is the coeditor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/title\/57349\">Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism: Studies in Law, Philosophy, Pietism, and Kabbalah<\/a> <\/em>(Brill, 2021) and is finishing a monograph titled&nbsp;<em>After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Islamic World<\/em>.Marc Herman will be an assistant professor at York University beginning in 2022. His research focuses on the interactions of Jewish and Islamic intellectual history in the medieval Mediterranean, with a particular interest in the overlapping sacred histories of Jews and Muslims. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he has held postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia University, Fordham University, Harvard University, the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale Law School. He is the coeditor of Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism: Studies in Law, Philosophy, Pietism, and Kabbalah and is currently writing a monograph titled Imagining Revelation: Medieval Jewish Presentations of the Oral Torah in an Islamic Key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent publications:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennpress.org\/9781512827798\/after-revelation\/\"><em>After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World <\/em>(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-seforim-blog wp-block-embed-the-seforim-blog\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Dwm9SHBbng\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seforimblog.com\/2024\/09\/review-of-ha-sefer-ha-kollel-kitab-al-%e1%b8%a5awi-by-rabbi-david-ben-sa%ca%bfadya-al-ger\/\">Review of Ha-Sefer ha-Kollel (Kit\u0101b al-\u1e24\u0101w\u012b) by Rabbi David ben Sa\u02bfadya al-Ger<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Review of Ha-Sefer ha-Kollel (Kit\u0101b al-\u1e24\u0101w\u012b) by Rabbi David ben Sa\u02bfadya al-Ger&#8221; &#8212; The Seforim Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/seforimblog.com\/2024\/09\/review-of-ha-sefer-ha-kollel-kitab-al-%e1%b8%a5awi-by-rabbi-david-ben-sa%ca%bfadya-al-ger\/embed\/#?secret=VeiElELIwg#?secret=Dwm9SHBbng\" data-secret=\"Dwm9SHBbng\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image img-thumbnail rounded-0\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/SHorowitz_0543c-1-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/SHorowitz_0543c-1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/SHorowitz_0543c-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/SHorowitz_0543c-1-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/SHorowitz_0543c-1-1639x2048.jpg 1639w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/SHorowitz_0543c-1-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sara Horowitz<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:srh@yorku.ca\">Sara R. Horowitz<\/a>is Professor of comparative literature and Jewish Studies. She teaches courses on literary responses to the Holocaust, gender and Jewish studies, Israeli cinema, and Jewish memory. She&nbsp;is the author of&nbsp;<em>Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction<\/em>, which received the&nbsp;<em>Choice<\/em>&nbsp;Award for Outstanding Academic Book. &nbsp;<br><br>She is co-editor of&nbsp;<em>H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy<\/em>, &nbsp;which was awarded the 2016 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in Jewish Thought and Culture, &nbsp;co-editor of&nbsp;<em>Encounter with Appelfeld<\/em>, and founding co-editor of the journal&nbsp;<em>Kerem.&nbsp;<\/em>Her research focuses on Holocaust literature, women survivors, Jewish American fiction and and Israeli cinema.<br><br>Currently, she is completing a book entitled&nbsp;<em>Gender, Genocide and Jewish Memory,&nbsp;<\/em>and co-editing a collection of essays on the image of Paris in post-war Jewish literary memory. &nbsp;She has served as president of the Association for Jewish Studies and on the Executive Committee for Jewish Literature of the Modern Language Association. &nbsp;<br><br>She sits on the Academic Advisory Committee for the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Research at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Prof. Horowitz is the coordinator of the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/cjs.yorku.ca\/students\/graduate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graduate Diploma program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent projects and honours include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editor (with Carl Ehrlich), <em>The State of Jewish Studies: Perspectives on Premodern Periods<\/em> (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publications:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLearning from the Past, Teaching for the Future: A Forum,\u201d with Anna Veprinska, Canadian Jewish Studies \/ \u00c9tudes juives canadiennes vol. 38, 2024, 133-159.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Saturated Forgetfulness of Liturgical Memory,\u201d in <em>Hyam Plutzik, American Jewish Poet<\/em>, eds.Victoria Arons and Holli Levitsky (Boston: Academic Studies Press. forthcoming 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnsettled Accounts:&nbsp; Sexualized Memories of Child Survivors of the Shoah,\u201d in <em>I haven\u2019t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualized violence in the Second World War and its aftermath<\/em>, eds. Helga Amesberger, Helga Embacher, Johanns-Dieter Steinert. (Saltzberg: Edition Tandem, forthcoming 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International speaking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnsettled Accounts: Sexualized Memories of Child and Adolescent Survivors of the Shoah,\u201d Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel. (16 April 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSince when can't a virgin be a whore?\u201d:The Dynamics of Shame and Agency in Women's Accounts of the Shoah,\u201d Women in the Holocaust - International Scientific Conference, Belgrade, 10-12 October 2024\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBetween Purity and Degradation: Gender and the Ethics of Literary Memory,\" Workshop on \"The Limits of Faith: Jewish Women's Views of the Divine, Jewish History and Tradition After Auschwitz,\" Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany (13-14 June 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Black Milk: The Fragility of Childhood in the Shoah,\" Kehillat Yedidya, Jerusalem (5 May 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inducted into Royal Society of Canada, November 2023 York University Research Award (to be awarded September 19, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024 York University Research Award Winner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-4 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large img-thumbnail rounded-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/Koffman0575c-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/Koffman0575c-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/Koffman0575c-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/Koffman0575c-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/Koffman0575c-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/Koffman0575c-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">David Koffman (Associate Director)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:koffman@yorku.ca\">David S. Koffman<\/a>&nbsp;is the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry and an&nbsp;Associate Professor in the Department of History. His undergraduate courses include \"Worry &amp; Wonder: Jewish Politics, Culture &amp; Religion in Canada\", \"A Convenient Hatred: Antisemitism Before, During and After the Holocaust\", \"God\/USA: Religion in America Since 1491\", \"Making Money,\" and \"History of Me: The Genealogy Seminar.\"&nbsp;&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<em>The Jews\u2019 Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America<\/em>&nbsp;(Rutgers University Press, 2019), winner of an Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, and the editor of, and a contributor to&nbsp;<em>No Better Home? Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging<\/em>&nbsp;(University of Toronto Press, 2021). He has published work in journals including the <em>Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era<\/em>, <em>Journal of Jewish Education<\/em>, <em>Canadian Jewish Studies<\/em>, <em>American Jewish History<\/em>, <em>Contemporary Jewry<\/em>, and <em>the Journal of American Ethnic History<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-5 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full img-thumbnail rounded-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"581\" height=\"775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/0674-Ahouva-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/0674-Ahouva-edited.jpg 581w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/0674-Ahouva-edited-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/0674-Ahouva-edited-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ahouva Shulman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:sahouva@yorku.ca\">Ahouva Shulman<\/a>&nbsp;is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, Faculty of Liberal Arts &amp; Professional Studies. She holds a B.A. in Hebrew Language from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an M.A. and PhD in Hebrew Language from the University of Toronto. Her areas of teaching include modern and biblical Hebrew. <br><br>Prof. Shulman is conducting research in Biblical Hebrew grammar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-6 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large img-thumbnail rounded-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/KWeiser_0581c-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/KWeiser_0581c-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/KWeiser_0581c-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/KWeiser_0581c-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/KWeiser_0581c-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2022\/11\/KWeiser_0581c-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kalman Weiser (Centre Director)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:kweiser@yorku.ca\">Kalman Weiser<\/a>&nbsp;is the Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies and the Director of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. A native of New York City, he received his BA from Yale College and MA and PhD from Columbia University. He is the author of several studies about Jewish nationalism, Yiddish, and Jews\u2019 relationship to language. His study <a href=\"https:\/\/utppublishing.com\/doi\/book\/10.3138\/9780802097163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Jewish People, Yiddish Nation. Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland<\/em><\/a> won the 2012 Canadian Jewish Book Award for scholarship. He is also a contributor to and co-editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/ca\/czernowitz-at-100-9780739140710\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Czernowitz at 100: the First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective<\/em><\/a> (2010); a revised and expanded edition of&nbsp;Solomon Birnbaum's seminal work <a href=\"https:\/\/utppublishing.com\/doi\/book\/10.3138\/9781442614338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Yiddish: a Survey and a Grammar<\/em><\/a> (2016); and <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-030-51658-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism<\/em><\/a> (2021). His newest book, <a href=\"https:\/\/wsupress.wayne.edu\/9780814353387\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America. The YIVO Institute at 100<\/em><\/a>, will appear in the fall 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Weiser regularly teaches courses about modern Jewish and eastern European history, the Holocaust, and antisemitism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large img-thumbnail rounded-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/296\/2025\/01\/000_0630-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Laura Wiseman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"mailto:lwiseman@edu.yorku.ca\">Laura Wiseman<\/a>, PhD Hebrew Language and Literature, Collaborative Doctorate Jewish Studies, is a member of the Faculty of Education, Department of Humanities LAPS, and Faculty of Graduate Studies. As Koschitzky Family Chair in Jewish Teacher Education, she works with students of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/students\/jewish-teacher-education\/\">Jewish Teacher Education Program<\/a> preparing to teach Jewish Studies in formal, informal and experiential education settings. Her research focuses on the significance of intertextual reverberations in Hebrew language and literature: prose and poetry, life writing and \u00e9criture f\u00e9minine. Her work takes into account classical Hebrew sources as well as medieval and modern <em>belles lettres<\/em>. Her present research is on the sacred and the sensual in contemporary Hebrew love poetry by Sivan Har-Shefi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wiseman is currently president of Canadian Society for Jewish Studies and vice president of Midwest Jewish Studies Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent works<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wiseman, Laura. (forthcoming 2022). \u201cLove Urgently, Wistfully, Playfully, Sacredly (Parts One and Two).\u201d <em>From Knowledge to Interpretive Transmission: Critical (Canadian) Readings of Jewish History and Thought. <\/em>Daniel Maoz and Esti Mayer, eds. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wiseman, Laura. 2021. \u201cWord on the Street in the State Book Satires of S.Y. Agnon.\u201d <em>Agnon\u2019s Tales of the Land of Israel. <\/em>Shalom Carmy and Jeffrey Saks, eds. Eugene: Wipf and Stock. 151-165.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wiseman, Laura. 2021. \u201cLament Poetry: Voices of Protest.\u201d <em>Spatialized Injustice in the Contemporary City: Protesting as Public Pedagogy. <\/em>S. Nombuso Dlamini and Angela Steinen, eds. Routledge\/Taylor and Francis. 114-133.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-uppercase font-weight-bold\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-2 kt-pane2867_96bb33-17\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Affiliated Faculty<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p> <li><strong><a href=\"mailto:dadler@yorku.ca\">Dan Adler<\/a>: <\/strong>History of art writing, modern and contemporary sculpture, German modernism, Frankfurt School theory, conceptual art, and the theory and history of contemporary art.<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aci-iac.ca\/about\/sara-angel\/\">Sara Angel<\/a>:<\/strong> Art history<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:mbloom@glendon.yorku.ca\">Myra Bloom<\/a><\/strong>: Department of English, Glendon College<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:tburke@yorku.ca\">Tony Burke<\/a>:<\/strong> Religion\u00a0, Infancy gospels, Non-Canonical Jewish and Christian writings, Curses, Early Christianity, Jewish and Christian Apocrypha, Childhood in Antiquity<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:ncanefe@yorku.ca\">Nergis Canefe<\/a>: <\/strong>Human Rights\u00a0, Immigration, Middle East, Global South, International Criminal Law, Political Science, Public Law, Forced Migration Studies, Public International Law, Political Theory<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:judithc@yorku.ca\">Judith Cohen<\/a>: <\/strong>Sephardic music, Ladino music, Crypto-Jews, Portugal, \u00a0Spain, Turkey, Greece, Morocco, Balkans, Yiddish-Ladino song themes<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:rcohen@yorku.ca\">Rina Cohen<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>Sociology of the Jews (Emerita)<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:fogel@yorku.ca\">Joshua A. Fogel<\/a>:<\/strong> Comparative East Asia, Modern China, Japan, Yiddish<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"mailto:efreud@yorku.ca\">Erez Freud<\/a><\/strong>: Psychology, Faculty of Health<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"mailto:bgeva@osgoode.yorku.ca\">Benjamin Geva<\/a>: <\/strong>Commercial, financial and banking law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"mailto:efurman@yorku.ca\">Eduard Furman<\/a>: <\/strong>Mathematics and Statistics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:pharland@yorku.ca\">Philip Harland<\/a>: <\/strong>Religion\u00a0, Classics, Religious and Social Life in the Roman Empire, Humanities<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong>Shelley Hornstein: <\/strong>Architectural History and Urban Culture (Emerita)<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:nisraelite@edu.yorku.ca\">Neita Israelite<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>Education (Emerita)<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:judge@yorku.ca\">Joan Judge<\/a>: <\/strong>Print Culture in Modern China and in Comparative Perspective, Chinese Women\u2019s History, Reading Practices in China and in Comparative Perspective, History<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:bkatz@yorku.ca\">Brian Katz<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>Klezmer, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Yid-Rhythmics (Jewish-themed offshoot of Dalcroze Eurhythmics), improvisation, jazz, music cognition, music for health and wellness, music pedagogy<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:rkenedy@yorku.ca\">Robert Kenedy<\/a>: <\/strong>Jewish Diaspora; Immigration and Citizenship; Ethnic Identity; Social and Political Movements; Qualitative Methodologies.<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><a href=\"mailto:melebel@glendon.yorku.ca\"><strong>Mari<\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"mailto:melebel@glendon.yorku.ca\">e-Elaine Lebel<\/a>:<\/strong> Francophone communities, Language and Society, Postsecondary Education and Research, Second Language Education, Glendon College <\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:lemish@yorku.ca\">Noam Lemish<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>Faculty of Music; Israeli and transcultural jazz, Jewish Music, improvisation pedagogy.<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:lockshin@yorku.ca\">Marty Lockshin<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>Rabbinics, Bible commentaries, Jewish-Christian polemics, history of Jewish law (Emeritus)<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:mandell@yorku.ca\">Nancy Mandell<\/a>: <\/strong>Family; Intimacy and Care Work; Aging and Immigrants; Gender and Schooling; Qualitative Methods; Community-Academic Research Partnerships<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong>David Mendelsohn:\u00a0<\/strong>Languages (Senior Scholar)<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:tmichael@yorku.ca\">Tony Michael<\/a>:<\/strong> Religion<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:lmolot@yorku.ca\">Lewis Molot<\/a>:<\/strong> Biology (Emeritus)<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong>Meley Mulugetta:<\/strong> Ethiopian Manuscripts and Semitic Philology<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:rnewman@yorku.ca\">Ruby K. Newman<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>Contemporary Jewish Literature<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><a href=\"mailto: catpower@yorku.ca\"><strong>Catherine Power<\/strong><\/a>: Early modern and enlightenment political thought; history of Judeophobia. Coordinator of the Jewish Studies Research Network. Glendon Campus.<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:ereiter@yorku.ca\">Esther Reiter<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>Sociology of the Jews (Emerita)<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"mailto:shaynar@yorku.ca\">Shayna Rosenbaum<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/strong>Psychology and Neuroscience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:rrudolph@yorku.ca\">Ross Rudolph<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>Political Science and Israel (Emeritus)<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:rschnoor@yorku.ca\">Randal Schnoor<\/a>: <\/strong>Sociology, social science, Jewish identity, gender and sexuality, demography, ethnography, Jewish education<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong>Stuart Schoenfeld:\u00a0<\/strong>Sociology of the Jews (Emeritus)<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:stweyman@yorku.ca\">Stan Tweyman<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>Philosophy<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:mwebber@yorku.ca\">Mark Webber<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>German Jewish History and Literature (Senior Scholar)<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"mailto:davidweitzner@gmail.com\">David Weitzner<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/strong>School of Administrative Studies, LA&amp;PS, Jewish Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:mwintre@yorku.ca\">Maxine Wintre<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>Psychology; social &amp; emotional development, including gender differences &amp; immigrant\/generational status (Emerita)<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:bzatzman@yorku.ca\">Belarie Zatzman<\/a>: <\/strong>History, identity, and memory in Drama and Arts Education<\/li><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><li><strong><a href=\"mailto:jzemans@yorku.ca\">Joyce Zemans<\/a>: <\/strong>Art history and cultural policy with specific reference to the Canadian experience and international comparative cultural policy.<\/li> <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-3 kt-pane2867_dc8fa7-eb\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Research Associates and Visiting Scholars<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Associates<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Arye Rainer (2025-2026) is a scholar of Jewish philosophy specializing in the transmission and interpretation of medieval and early modern thought. He received his PhD in Jewish Philosophy from Bar-Ilan University with a dissertation on the Hebrew translation of Averroes\u2019 Middle Commentary on Aristotle\u2019s Topica by Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, and has published and prepared critical editions of Hebrew philosophical texts. His research explores the intersections of rabbinic tradition, philosophy, and science, with particular attention to logic and rhetoric in medieval debates and the migration of knowledge from Provence to Italy. He has taught extensively in Jewish thought and philosophy in academic and community settings and is currently working at the Cohn Institute of Tel Aviv University on a critical edition of Abraham Bar Hiyya\u2019s Treatise on Measurement and&nbsp;Calculation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Analuc\u00eda Lopezrevoredo (2024-2025) is a sociologist, experiential educator, and organizational leader specializing in designing innovative frameworks that strengthen global Jewish communities while fostering meaningful connections between Jews and non-Jews. In 2019, she founded <a href=\"http:\/\/jewtina.org\">Jewtina y Co.<\/a>, a community-driven organization dedicated to celebrating Latin-Jewish identity, cultivating leadership and resilience, advancing research on Latin-Jewish peoplehood, and building coalitions between Jewish and Latino communities across English-speaking North America. <br>Dr. Lopezrevoredo is the recipient of the National Young Woman of Distinction Award, designated by former President George W. Bush, and currently&nbsp;a Fulbright Scholar at York University, where she is conducting research on Canadian Latin-Jewry.<br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Leyzer&nbsp;Burko (2024-2025) is a Yiddish scholar originally from New York.&nbsp;His dissertation focused on the history of Yiddish language scholarship&nbsp;in the postwar period, especially the work of the YIVO Linguistic Circle. His current research is mainly in Yiddish lexicography, dialectology, and etymology, in the form of an online Yiddish dialect dictionary. Besides the prewar dialects once spoken in Europe, he also aims to cover the contemporary dialects spoken in Orthodox, especially Hasidic communities.<br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Diego Rotman (2024-2025) is a Senior Lecturer, researcher, artist, and curator focusing on performative practices related to local historiography, contemporary art, and Yiddish theater. He has headed the Department of Theater Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2019, where he launched The OWL lab-performance in 2022. His co-edited book <em>Possession and Dispossession: Performing Jewish Ethnography in Jerusalem<\/em> was published in 2022, and he co-founded The Green Roof, an inclusive space, in 2023. His book <em>The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home \u2013 Dzigan and Shumacher\u2019s Satirical Theater (1927-1980)<\/em> earned the 2019 Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies. In 2000, he and Mauas founded the Sala-manca Group, dedicated to contemporary and public art, and in 2009 established the Mamuta Art and Research Center, now based at Hansen House in Jerusalem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Ovgu Ulgen (2024-2025) holds a PhD in Sociology from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al (2023), an MA in Sociology from Ecole des hautes \u00e9tudes en sciences sociales (EHESS, 2014), and a B.S. in Sociology from Middle East Technical University (METU, 2011). From November 2023 to April 2024, she was a fellow at the Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al working on a project of asylum seekers and refugees living in Quebec. In her dissertation, which was funded by FRQSC and IRTG Diversity, she sought to understand belonging at the intersection of language and religion from the lived experiences of Jewish immigrants and explored what it said about interculturalism and multiculturalism in Canada.&nbsp;Currently, she is working on her book project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Liat Naeh (2022-2024) is a scholar and a museum professional focusing on the art and archaeology of the Middle East during the Bronze and Iron Ages.&nbsp;Her interests and teaching encompass the ancient Levant, ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the&nbsp;Mediterranean; the historiography of archaeology in the Middle East; and practices of collecting and displaying antiquities in museums and beyond. Her research ranges from 20th-century displays of Biblical Archaeology within museum exhibitions in Israel and North America, to the study of ancient Canaanite and Israelite schools of art in the context of West-Semitic literary traditions. She has published extensively on Levantine cult sites, bone and ivory craft, as well as Levantine ritualistic furniture, and is the co-editor of a volume on thrones in the ancient world. Before arriving in Toronto, Naeh was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Ancient&nbsp;Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan&nbsp;Museum of Art and at the Bard Graduate Center, both in New York. She is also a published, award-winning poet in her native language of Hebrew.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Matt Reingold (2020- ) completed his PhD in Jewish Education at York University as a Wexner Fellow &amp; Davidson Scholar. His research&nbsp;interests are Jewish and Israeli graphic novels and Israel education.&nbsp;He is currently working on a manuscript about Israeli&nbsp;cartoonist Asaf Hanuka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Marina Zilbergertz (2022-2023) (Ph.D, Stanford University) is a scholar of Jewish Literature and Thought. She is the author of <em>The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature<\/em> (Indiana University Press, 2022). From 2016-2022, she was the Lipton Assistant Professor in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Marina is currently working on a book project on biblical voice and narrative. She grew up in Zhitomir, Tel Aviv, and Toronto.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Simon-Pierre Lacasse (2020-2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rich Robertson (2020-2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cristiana Conti (2019-2020) is completing a Ph.D. (ABD) in biblical exegesis in the Department of History at York University, with a defense expected in late Spring 2023. Her dissertation, entitled&nbsp;<em>The Curse of Yhwh: Neo-Assyrian Anti-Witchcraft Imagery in the Book of Jeremiah,<\/em>&nbsp;compares Jeremiah's rhetoric against false prophecy to earlier anti-demonic language in Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft literature. She currently serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Humanities at Austin Community College (Austin, Texas). Her teaching interests include Ancient Israel and Ancient Near Eastern history, biblical prophecy, comparative literature, and religion. She has been a Research Associate at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies (York University, 2019-2020) and is currently on the editorial team of the academic journal&nbsp;<em>Estudios Orientales \u2013 Monograf\u00edasRIIPOA<\/em>. She co-authored an article last year entitled \u201c'The Whispering of Many\u2019: The Contribution of Ancient Near Eastern Literature to Interpreting the Hebrew Bible,\" which is forthcoming in an edited volume from the&nbsp;<em>Cambridge University Press<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Stephanie Tara Schwartz (2018-2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Igal German (2017-2018) is an Israeli biblical scholar. His research interests range from the book of Genesis and its history of interpretation to Second Temple Jewish writings. Igal has taught a wide range of courses on the Hebrew&nbsp;Bible within its ancient Near East context. Igal teaches at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visiting Scholars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">York University Visiting Professorship in Israel Studies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies inaugurated the York University Visiting Professorship in Israel Studies in the Fall of 2008 and&nbsp;has welcomed many Israeli professor since.&nbsp;The project was made possible a partnership with private donors, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, and York's Faculty of Liberal Arts &amp; Professional Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2017 - 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/en-law.tau.ac.il\/profile\/broida_07\">Professor Yael Braudo-Bahat, Tel Aviv University<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2011 - 2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/israel-studies.haifa.ac.il\/index.php\/en\/about\/231-staff-page-test\">Professor Moshe Naor, University of Haifa<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2010 - 2011 <a href=\"https:\/\/geoenv.biu.ac.il\/en\/node\/367\">Professor Yossi Katz, Bar-Ilan University<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2009 - 2010 <a href=\"https:\/\/english.tau.ac.il\/profile\/oritr\">Professor Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2008 - 2009 <a href=\"https:\/\/in.bgu.ac.il\/en\/fom\/PublicDep\/pages\/staff\/Arye_Naor.aspx\">Professor Arye Naor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":412,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"feinberg","author_link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/author\/feinberg\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2867\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}