AJS/AAJR Registry of Dissertations in Progress

The Association for Jewish Studies, in cooperation with the American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR), is pleased to provide a Registry of Dissertations in Progress. The registry contains information regarding doctoral research being conducted by Ph.D. candidates in Jewish studies. Graduate students whose proposals have been approved by their institutions are encouraged to submit information about their projects.

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Author Title Headings Antipated Completion Date
Adelman, Rachel "Mythic Time and Space in the Midrashic Narrative: The Case of Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer"
  1. Midrash
  2. Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer
 2006-01-01
Allgaier, Recha Judah Ben Jacob: Hanhagat ha-Beri'ut (On the Regimen of Health). Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary.
  1. Medieval medicine
  2. Medieval science
 2008-12-01
Aust, Cornelia Between Warsaw and Amsterdam: Networks of Jewish Merchants in Central and East Central Europe (1740s-1820s)
  1. Jews Poland Warsaw.
  2. Jews Prussia.
  3. Networks
  4. Jews Commerce History.
 2009-12-06
Avishai, Orit Politics of Purity: Menstrual Defilement and the Negotiation of Modern Jewish Femininities
  1. Orthodox Jews Israel
 2006-01-01
Backenroth, Ofra How does the use of the arts shape the curriculum and teaching of Judaic studies in day schools?
  1. Education-Research
  2. Teaching
  3. Arts-Study and Teaching
 2004-01-01
Bregoli, Francesca Mediterranean Enlightenment: Jewish Culture in Livorno (1680-1790)
  1. Jews -- Italy -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
  2. Judaism -- History -- 18th century
 2006-12-01
Chatterley, Catherine Disenchantment: A Critical Study of George Steiner's Thought on the Holocaust, Antisemitism, and Western Culture
  1. George Steiner
  2. History, Europe
  3. Holocaust
  4. Criticism
 2007-03-06
Collins, Sandra Weapons Upon her Body: The Heroic Feminine in the Hebrew Bible
  1. Women in the Bible
  2. Bible. O.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  3. Sex in the Bible
  4. Folklore in the bible
 2007-12-01
Crane, Jonathan Rhetoric of Modern Jewish Ethics
  1. Jewish Ethics
  2. Jewish Ethics--Philosophy.
  3. Discourse Analysis
  4. Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Judaism.
 2008-06-06
Dahan, Karen Cultural and Religious factors related to perceptions of risk of Colorectal Cancer and Health behaviors among Ashkenazi Jewish Women
  1. Jews United States
  2. Jewish women Health and hygiene
  3. Colon cancer
  4. medical Anthropology
 2008-08-01
Davis, Marni 'The Homebrew and the Hebrew': Jewish Americans as Purveyors of Alcohol, 1870-1936
  1. Jews -- United States -- Social Conditions
  2. Prohibiton -- United States -- History
  3. Immigration -- United States -- History
  4. Ethnic Relations -- United States -- History
 2006-05-01
Dweck, Yaacob Leon Modena's Ari Nohem
  1. Modena, Leone, 1571-1648.
  2. Cabala--History.
  3. Judaism--Italy--History.
  4. Learning and scholarship--History.
 2008-05-01
Eisenberg, Saadia Reading Medieval Religious Polemic: The 1240 "Debate" between Rabbi Yehiel of Paris and Friar Nicholas Donin
  1. Christianity--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800
  2. Judaism--History--Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.
  3. Christianity and other religions--Judaism.
  4. Judaism and other religions--Christianity.
 2008-04-06
Friedberg, Edna Abandon Us Not In Our Old Age: The Origins of American Jewish Services for the Elderly
  1. Jewish aged
  2. Jews United States Charities History
  3. Aging United States History
 2004-04-01
Gilpin, Vicky An Heuristic Phenomenology of the Perspectives of Supplementary School Educators Within Very Small Congregations
  1. Education-research
  2. Teaching
  3. Religion
 2006-01-06
Glazer, Aubrey L. Fractured Fragments Sitting in Travail: (Re)Birthing Redemption in Hebrew Hermeneutics
  1. Hebrew Poetry
  2. Hebrew Hermeneutics
  3. Contemporary Mysticism
 2006-09-01
Hidary, Richard Tolerance for Diversity of Halakhic Practice in the Talmud
  1. Talmud
  2. Pluralism, legal
 2008-01-06
Jablon, Rachel Museums, Mass Media, and Memorials: The Shaping of Post-Holocaust Jewish American Communal Identity
  1. Heritage Tourism
  2. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Museums
  3. Yizkor Books (Holocaust)
  4. Identity Fiction
 2008-05-01
Jassen, Alex Mediating the Divine: Prophets, Magicians, and Mantics in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Judaism
  1. Dead Sea scrolls
  2. Qumran Community
  3. Prophecy--History
  4. Magic, Ancient
 2006-05-01
Katz, Ethan Jews and Muslims in the Shadow of Marianne: Conflicting Identities and Republican Culture in France, 1914-1989
  1. Jews France History 20th Century
  2. Muslims France History
  3. Jews North Africa France
  4. North Africans France History 20th Century
 2009-05-06
Koffman, David The Jews' Indian: Culture and Commerce Between Jews and Native Americans, 1820-1940
  1. Jews-United States-History
  2. American Indians-United States-History
 2008-06-06
Kohn, Shira "A Gentlewoman's Agreement: Jewish Sororities in Postwar America, 1947-1968"
  1. Jews-United States-History
  2. Jewish college students--United States--Conduct of life.
  3. Women--United States--History--20th century.
  4. College integration--United States.
 2009-06-06
Lehrer, Erica "Shoah-Business," "Holocaust Culture," and the Repair of the World in "Post-Jewish" Poland: a quest for ethnography, empathy, and the ethnic self after genocide
  1. Jews Poland
  2. Tourism Social aspects
  3. Ethnic relations Social aspects
  4. Reconciliation
 2006-05-01
Levitz Fishbane, Leah The Emergence of an 'American Hebrew' Renaissance: Young Jews and the Challenge of Leadership in Late-19th Century American Judaism
  1. History--United States--Late-19th Century
  2. Jews--United States--Identity
  3. Jews--United States--Periodicals
  4. Young Men's Hebrew Associations
 2006-05-01
Loeffler, James 'The Most Musical Nation': Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late Russian Empire
  1. Jews--Russia--History--19th century.
  2. Jews--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg--History--20th century
  3. Jewish musicians
  4. Jewish nationalism
 2006-12-01
MacDonald-Dennis, Christopher Bridge or Barrier: The Role of Jewish Identity Among White Ashkenazi Anti-Racist Educators
  1. Jewish Identity
  2. Race Awareness
  3. Multicultural Education
 2005-01-01
Matalon, Guy Gersonides and Narboni on Immortality and Intellection
  1. Jewish Philosophy
 2006-01-01
Osborne, Monica The Midrashic Impulse: Reading Fiction, Film, and Painting in the Face of the Shoah
  1. Jewish literature
  2. Jewish literature United States
  3. Kieślowski, Krzysztof, 1941-1996
  4. Midrash History and criticism Theory, etc.
 2008-03-06
Perl, Gil The Intellectual Work of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin (Neziv)
  1. Berlin, Naphtali Zebi Judah, 1817-1893.
  2. Jews--Lithuania--History--19th century
  3. Rabbis--Biography
 2006-06-01
Phillips, Benjamin Redefining Jewish Survey Research: A Prospective Study of Research Methods
  1. Social surveys
  2. Jews - United States
  3. Judaism - United States
 2005-12-01
Rosenblum, Jordan “They Sit Apart at Meals": Early Rabbinic Commensality Regulations and Identity Construction
  1. Food--Religious aspects--Judaism.
 2008-05-01
Russell, Stephen Images of Egypt in Early Biblical Literature: Israelite, Trasnjordanian and Judahite Portrayals
  1. Bible. O.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  2. Bible. O.T. Exodus XV, 1-21--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  3. Bible. O.T. Kings, 1st, XI, 26-XIV, 20 Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  4. Bible. O.T. Numbers XXII, 2-XXIV, 25--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
 2008-05-01
Sandman, Israel The 'Meshobeb Nethiboth' of Samuel Ibn Matut ("Motot"): Introductory Excursus, Critical Edition, and Translation
  1. Sefer Yezirah Commentaries
  2. Cabala Early works to 1800
  3. Philosophy, Jewish Early works to 1800
  4. Manuscripts, Hebrew
 2006-06-01
Shtakser, Inna "Structures of Feeling" and Revolutionary Identity among the Poor Jewish Youth of the Pale during the 1905 revolution
  1. Jewish Socialists - Russia
  2. Working Class Jews - Russia
  3. Jews - Russia - History
  4. Russia--Ethnic relations
 2006-05-01
Snyder, David Constructing the Modern Metropolis: Urban Renewal and the Space of the Jewish "Other" in Prague and Warsaw
  1. Architecture and history.
  2. City planning--Poland--Warsaw.
  3. City planning--Czech Republic--Prague--History--20th century.
 2006-05-01
Stahl, Neta The Representation of Jesus in 20th Century Hebrew Literature
  1. Modern Hebrew Literature
  2. Jesus - Literary Representations
  3. Jesus - Jewish Perception
 2006-08-01
Tartakoff, Paola Conversion in the Crown of Aragon, 1291-1391
  1. Jews Spain Aragon History
  2. Jews Conversion to Christianity
  3. Inquisition Spain Aragon
 2007-05-01
Vance, Sharon Sol Ha-Saddiqah: Historic figure, Saint, Literary Persona
  1. Jews Morocco History 19th century
  2. Europe Colonies History 19th century
  3. Jews Europe, Western Social conditions 19th century
  4. Jewish women in literature
 2005-01-01
Voss, Rebekka Beyond the Art of Controversy: Jewish Messianism and Christian Apocalypticism in Germany, 1500-1650
  1. Jewish messianic movements--History
  2. Messiah--Judaism--History of doctrines
  3. Jews--Germany--History--16th century
  4. Judaism--Relations--Christianity--History--16th century
 2007-04-01

 
     
     
     
 
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