Core Faculty - Jewish Studies Program

Core Faculty maintains teaching and research agendas focused on Jewish studies

Lori Lefkovitz

Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of Jewish Studies Program; Director of Humanities Center; Professor of English

Lori Hope Lefkovitz is the author of In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identity (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010), which was named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Women’s Studies. Her awards i…
Laurel Leff

Professor of Journalism and Affiliate in Jewish Studies
Simon Rabinovitch

Stotsky Associate Professor in Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies

Simon Rabinovitch teaches and writes about different aspects of Jewish, European, Russian, and legal history. His first book, Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia (Stanford, 2014, soon fort…