Core Faculty

Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of Jewish Studies Program; 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…

Professor of Journalism and Affiliate in Jewish Studies

Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies

Simon Rabinovitch is the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies, and he teaches and writes on a range of topics in European, Jewish, Russian, and legal history. His latest book is Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish Histo…

Visiting Lecturer

Rima Farah’s areas of specialization are political and cultural histories of modern Israel and the contemporary Middle East, with an emphasis on the ethnic and national identities of minorities and their political thought. She studies ethnic and poli…