Thank you to the 2013 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Reuven Firestone, HUC-JIR, Chair Jay Berkowitz, University of Massachusetts Amherst Shaul Kelner, Vanderbilt University Lisa Leff, American University Laurence Roth, Susquehanna University Adam Teller, Brown University Yedida Eisenstat, Jewish Theological Seminary, student representative Ex-officio: Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University Rona Sheramy, Association for Jewish Studies
2013 DIVISION CHAIRS Bible and the History of Biblical Interpretation Moshe Bernstein Yeshiva University
Modern Jewish Thought and Theology Steven Kepnes Colgate University
Rabbinic Literature and Culture Beth Berkowitz Barnard College Aaron Panken HUC-JIR
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity Hayim Lapin University of Maryland
Yiddish Studies Marc Caplan Johns Hopkins University Modern Jewish Literature and Culture Julian Levinson University of Michigan
Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, Literature, and Culture Jonathan Decter Brandeis University Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies Adriana Brodsky St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Modern Hebrew Literature Shachar Pinsker University of Michigan
Modern Jewish History in Europe, Asia, Israel, and Other Communities Jeffrey Veidlinger University of Michigan
Medieval Jewish Philosophy Aaron Hughes University of Rochester
Modern Jewish History in the Americas Lila Corwin Berman Temple University
Jewish Mysticism Shaul Magid Indiana University
Israel Studies Arieh Saposnik UCLA
Holocaust Studies Samuel Kassow Trinity College Jews, Film, and the Arts Judah Cohen Indiana University Social Science and Contemporary Jewry Shelly Tenenbaum Clark University Linguistics, Semiotics, and Philology Benjamin Hary Emory University Interdisciplinary, Theoretical, and New Approaches Ari Kelman Stanford University
DON’T FORGET: MONDAY, 12/16 4:00 – 4:30 PM Select Division Meetings to discuss 2014 conference themes. See page 66 for details.
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