Faculty Members and fields of research

1.    Ancient Jewish History in the Second Temple period and in the Days of the Mishnah and  Talmud;

2.    Paganism in Roman and Byzantine Palestine;

3.    Jews and Non-Jews; Talmudic Literature;

4.    Talmudic Realia; Ancient Jewish Music;

5.    Graeco-Roman Culture; Ancient Medicine;

6.    Jewish Education in Ancient Era; Religious Dissidence.

1. Zionism and the history of the State of Israel (with emphasis on the topics of gender and memory).
2. American Jewry during the Twentieth Century (with emphasis on the American Jewish radical right wing).
3. The Holocaust.
4. Gender, Commemoration and Memory in the Twentieth Century Jewish Experience.

The Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox (with emphasis on gender) since the Second World War.

1. The intellectual and social history of Jewish religious movements

2. Religious responses to secularization and assimilation in modern and contemporary North America, Europe and Israel. 

3. Evolution of Orthodox Judaism,

4. The interface of Jewish law and social contexts, and the history of the rabbinate.

1. Jewish Religious History in the 19th and 20th Centuries

2. religious trends, popular religion

3. sermons, and homiletic literature

1. Jewish history of the Second Temple, Mishnah and Talmud periods
2. Second Temple Judaism
3. Rabbinic Judaism
4. Rabbinic Literature
5. History of Halakha

1. Biblical and ancient Near Eastern history,

2. The international relations of this period in light of modern international relations theories.

3. international relations during the El Amarna period and the end of the First Temple period

4. The mutual relationship between man and dog in the lands of the Bible and ancient cultures.

1. History, archaeology and historical geography of the ancient Levant.
2. Biblical Israel in the Iron Age
3. The Persian and Hellenistic Periods.
4. The society of ancient Israel.
5. The religion of ancient Israel and its neighbors.
6. Biblical toponomy.
7. Biblical genealogies as a source of information on the society of ancient Israel

1. Jewish Nationalism
2. Zionist Historiography and Utopia
3. Topics in Historiography
4. Myth and Memory in the Zionist Movement
5. From Jewish Settlements (Yishuv) to Jewish State (1917-1967).
6. Zionism and Religion
7. Nationalism and Jewish Identity
8. Jewish Nationalism and Culture in Modern Age
9. Jewish Modern Historiography
10. Zionism and its Opponents
11. The First Aliyah and the Second Aliyah (1882-1914)
12. Modern Jewish history – survey course

1. Early modern Europe

2. Jewish-Christian relations in medieval and early modern Europe

3. Protestant Reformation

4. Autobiography

5. social history 

1. Social and intellectual history of the Jews of the Mediterranean Basin

2. The Jews of North Africa, France and Eretz Israel Jewry in the 18th-20th centuries, with emphasis on Jewish communities in Algeria, Morocco and France and their attachment to Eretz Israel and the State of Israel

3. The history of Hokhmat Israel in France (19th-20th centuries).

1. Cairo Genizah

2. Judeo-Arabic Literature

3. The Jews of Egypt; Palestine and Syria in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods

4. Karaite Jews

5. Jewish-Muslim Relations in Middle Ages

6. Halachic literature of the Jewish Sages in the Ottoman Empire

1. Eastern European Jewry
2. Hasidim
3. Haskala
4. Orthodoxy

1. History and memory of the Holocaust in East Central Europe

2. Polish-Jewish relations in the 20^th and 21^st centuries

3. History of the Jews under Communism

4. Jewish material culture

5. Material and Cultural aftermath of mass violence and genocide

6. Modern and contemporary History of Polish Jews

7. The Jewish experience after 1945

8. Commemoration and representation of World War II and the Holocaust

9. The fate of Jewish property in Europe

1. Medieval History
2. Mediterranean and Sephardic Jewry
3. History of ideas
4. Conversions
5. Conversos
6. Jewish-Christian relations
   1. Interreligious polemic

 Modern Art

Post Mdern Art

Israeli Art

1. Social and political history of the Syrian and Lebanese Jewry in the modern period
2. intellectual history of the Jews in the Middle East and North Africa
3. Jewish journalism in the Middle East and North Africa

• Modern European Jewish History
• Modern German Jewry
• The Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah)
• Denominations in Modern Judaism, Liberal Judaism
• Jewish Women's Movements in Germany

• Jewish Identity and Engagement: Examining how critical experiences, education, and family networks shape Jewish belonging and practice.
• Diaspora Communities: Comparative studies of Jewish communities across English-speaking countries, with attention to migration, generational change, and cultural adaptation.
• Education and Values Transmission: The role of Jewish education, informal learning, and communal settings in shaping values, philanthropy, and social networks.
• Religion and Mental Health: Investigating how religious practices, community resources, and crises (such as COVID-19 and the October 7 war) impact wellbeing.
• Survey Methodology and Jewish Demography: Designing and analyzing large-scale surveys to inform communal planning and scholarly understanding of contemporary Jewry.