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The Arch of Titus in Rome Images a Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture has a special status for Bernard Revel Graduate School and for Yeshiva University as a whole. Co-founded by our own Professor Steven Fine, scholars from Yeshiva and across the academic world explore the vast world of Jewish…

Professor Claude B. Stuczynski On Monday, March 28, Revel students, faculty, and guests heard a lecture from Dr. Claude Dov Stuczynski entitled “Conversos and Sephardic ‘New Jews’ as Thinkers of Empire.” Dr. Stuczynski began with the common view of historian Jonathan Israel depicting New Jews as ...

Associate Professor of Jewish History Richard Hidary has been accepted as a fellow for The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica. The entire Revel community congratulates Prof. Hidary on this impressive achievment! The theme for the Starr Fellowship is going…

Revel doctoral student, Aryeh Tuchman recently had a chapter published in a new book edited by Alvin Rosenfeld and published by Indiana University Press. The book is called Deciphering the New Antisemitism, and Aryeh's chapter is titled "Generational Changes in the Holocaust Denial Movement in the…

Yael Landman, Revel PhD student Congratulations to Revel PhD student Yael Landman! Yael Landman’s article "On Lips and Tongues in Ancient Hebrew" was recently published in Vetus Testamentum (Vol. 66 [2016]). The article traces the semantic development of the words śāp̄ah ‘lip’ and lāšon ‘tongue’ ...

On Tuesday, February 2nd, Rabbi Dr. Raphael Shuchat delivered a special guest lecture entitled "Was the World Created in Six Days? The Views of Medieval Kabbalists." Rabbi Dr. Raphael Shuchat has been a lecturer at the School for Basic Jewish Studies of Bar-Ilan University for over twenty years and…

Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law, has been named as one of the two editors-in-chief of the prestigious academic journal Jewish History. Members of the editorial board of Jewish History are drawn from leading universities ...

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies,in cooperation with Congregation Netivot Shalom, invites you to a Boker Iyun Date and Time: Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 8:50 AM Location: Congregation Netivot Shalom. 811 Palisade Avenue. Teaneck, NJ 07666 Schedule: 8 a.m. Tefillat Shacharit…

New videos are up on our YouTube channel, come check it out! yu.edu/revel/youtube Now featuring: Dr. Fu's FULL Lecture - Hebrew Prophets and Confucian Sages: A Comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQgTyZ6-YPE Dr. Fu- Promo Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPuGOgMFBxo Dr. Fu and Dr ...

On Sunday, January 3 rd, Revel and the Center for the Jewish Future jointly presented a morning dedicated to “Celebrating Jewish Scholarship.” The program consisted of a Kollel Yom Rishon offered to men, with sessions led by Dr. Mordechai Cohen, Professor of Bible and Associate Dean of Revel, on ...