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Based on the Jerusalem research group directed by Revel Dean Cohen in 2010/11, the new volume Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries, published by Cambridge University press, will appear in January 2016. This volume contains the following chapters, each…

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies invites you to a lecture by Professor Yair Lorberbaum: Ta’amei ha-Mitzvot in the Thought of Rashba Professor Yair Lorberbaum received his doctorate in Jewish thought from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is currently a professor at Bar-Ilan…

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, in partnership with YU Global, invites you to a lecture by Dr. Youde Fu: Hebrew Prophets and Confucian Sages: A Comparison This lecture will examine similarities and differences between the Hebrew prophets and Confucian sages in their roles as ...

Dr. Mordechai Z. Cohen, Associate Dean and Professor of Bible at Revel, was in Jerusalem this summer on a visiting Fellowship at the Hebrew University's Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, along with an international group of scholars studying the relationship between interpretation and law. He…

How did members of the Polish resistance movement treat Jewish fugitives during the terrible events of World War II? This question, focusing on one of the darkest and most troubling problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations, is one many people already believe they have an answer for. But…

The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture has awarded a Doctoral Scholarship to Revel PhD candidate Yael Landman for 2015-2016. Through its generous dissertation grants, the Foundation helps train qualified individuals for careers in Jewish scholarship and research. Yael is a doctoral candidate in…

Dr. Joshua Zimmerman, Associate Professor of History and Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies, has published a new book entitled, The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2015). This book examines one of the central ...

Mr. Leonard Grunstein, a member of Revel’s Board of Overseers, published a new article in the Fall/Winter 2014 edition of the Real Estate Finance Journal entitled “The Origin of Non- Recourse Mortgage Financing: How Ancient Is This Seemingly Modern Financing Technique and Is It Perhaps Sha‘ariah…

On Thursday, April 30, the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies hosted “Shifting Jewish Identities and Ideologies From the Dawn of the 20th Century Until the Shoah,” a discussion focusing on two recently-published books by Revel faculty: Dr. Jess Olson’s Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish ...

Join us on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 4pm in the Sky Cafe (Belfer Hall-12th floor, 2495 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10033) for camaraderie and socializing with students, faculty, and administration as we celebrate the graduating class of 2014/2015, and welcome incoming students: Welcome and ...