About the Center Center for Israel Studies Contact Us Support the Center for Israel Studies Artificial Intelligence Biotechnology Computer Science Cybersecurity Data Analytics and Visualization Digital Marketing and Media Mathematics Occupational Therapy Physician Assistant Physics Speech-Language Pathology Mission Statement The Center for Israel Studies supports research, conferences, publications, museum exhibitions, public programs and educational opportunities that enhance awareness and study of Israel in all of its complexities. In its short history, the center has already become a national and an international model for engagement of the political, social, scientific, economic, historical, religious and cultural significance of Israel in the world community. Academic Committee Yosef Blau, RIETS Selma Botman, Provost, History Shalom Carmy, Jewish Thought Zafrira Lidovsky-Cohen, Hebrew Jill Katz, Archaeology Aaron Koller, Bible David Lavinsky, English Ronnie Perelis, Jewish History Shay Pilnik, Holocaust Studies Jacob Wisse, Art History Steven Fine, Director, Jewish History Joshua Karlip, Associate Director, Jewish History Leadership Steven Fine, Director, YU Center for Israel Studies & YU Israelite Samaritans Project Steven Fine is the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, and director of the YU Center for Israel Studies and the YU Israelite Samaritans Project. A cultural historian of ancient Judaism, Fine’s most recent book is: The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Harvard University Press, 2016). His Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology (Cambridge, 2005, second edition 2010) received the 2009 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award of the Association for Jewish Studies. Fine is a founding editor of IMAGES: A Journal for the Study of Jewish Art and Visual Culture. His exhibition catalog, The Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome and Back was published by Brill in 2021. Fine’s exhibition, The Samaritans: A Biblical People will open at the Museum of the Bible in Fall, 2022. Joshua Karlip, Associate Director, YU Center for Israel Studies Joshua M. Karlip is Associate Director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and Herbert S. and Naomi Denenberg Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University, where he has taught in Yeshiva College, Stern College the Bernard Revel Graduate School and in the Emile and Jennie Fish Center of Holocaust Studies. His publications to date include the critically acclaimed, The Tragedy of a Generation: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe, published by Harvard University Press in 2013; and his forthcoming, Oyfn Sheydveg [At the Crossroads]: Jewish Intellectuals and the Crisis of 1939 (Brill, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2021) Karlip’s current book project, Rabbis in the Land of Atheism: The Struggle to Save Judaism in the Soviet Union, recently won two prestigious grants from Moscow: the SEFER Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization Book Grant and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center Research Grant. Staff Ranana Dine Ranana Dine is the managing editor of Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, now housed at CJS and Israel-related content sponsored by the Leon Charney Legacy Fund. Ranana is doctoral student in religious ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her research, teaching, and writing focuses on topics ranging from Jewish medical ethics, the relationship of Judaism and the visual arts, and comparative Jewish-Christian thought. David Selis David Selis is the Leon Charney Doctoral Fellow at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies of Yeshiva University, and Assistant Curator of The Samaritans: A Biblical People, a traveling exhibition organized by the YU Center for Israel Studies. His research focuses on the history of the Hebrew book and modern Jewish cultural history. Student Associates Baruch-Lev Kelman Baruch-Lev Kelman is the Glatt Research Associate at the Center for Israel Studies and is pursuing his M.A. at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. His research focuses on early modern Jewish perceptions of Classical History. Jacob Karp Jacob Karp is the Leon Chaney Undergraduate Research Associate at the Center for Israel Studies and is pursuing his B.A. in History and Economics. His interest include early 20th century American Jewish economic history.
