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Scholarly Work

While here the Frankel Institute Fellows have been working diligently on a variety of projects related to “Jews & the City.” Listed below are a few examples of the work published as a result of their time here.

  • Lila Corwin-Berman, Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity. University of California Press, 2009.
  • Murray Baumgarten, “Exile & Jewish Identity: Marjorie Agosin & Urban Diasporic Possibility.” Presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. 2007.
  • Gil Klein, “A Holy Man's Space: Revisiting R. Hanina's Neighborhood in Sepphoris.” Presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. 2007.
  • Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, “Seizing Locality in Jerusalem.” New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine. Ed. Sandy Sufian & Mark LeVine. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc, 2007. 145-200.
  • Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, with Ganit Mayslits Kassif & Udi Kassif, “Neuland: Disenchanted Utopias for Tel Aviv.” Critical Architecture. Ed. Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Murray Fraser, & Mark Dorrian. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007. 352-331.
  • L. Scott Lerner, “La Synagogue parlante de Zadoc Kahn.” Zadoc Kahn. Un grand rabbin entre culture juive, laicite et affaire Dreyfus. Ed. Jean-Claude Kuperminc and Jean-Philippe Chaumont. Paris: Editions de l'Eclat, 2007. 103-114.
Forthcoming
  • Lila Corwin-Berman, “Jews and the Ambivalence of Middle-Classness.” American Jewish History, forthcoming.
  • L. Scott Lerner, “Costruire la storia: il Tempio Maggiore tra Roma e Sion.” Ebrei ed Emancipazione nella formazione della coscienza europea. Roma. forthcoming.
  • Shachar Pinsker, “Imagining the Beloved: Gender & Nation-Building in Early Twentieth-Century Hebrew Literature.” Gender & History, forthcoming

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