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The University of Maryland has established a new area of study devoted solely to Israel.

The university's Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies (ARHU) is creating the Institute for Israel Studies, scheduled to open in the fall of 2010. Prof. Yorim Peri will be the director, as well as chair of the Israel Studies Dept.

Maryland has a number of faculty experts who can comment on a wide range of issues related to Israel. Please feel free to contact them directly.


Number of experts found: 10

 
Adele Berlin

Robert H. Smith Professor of Bible

English and Jewish Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Biblical Studies Ancient Israel

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3821

aberlin@umd.edu

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Nathan A. Fox

Distinguished University Professor

Human Development

Expertise Key Words:
The effects of experience on brain development in infants and children. Cochlear implants and their impact on deaf children. Social and Emotional development of young children. The effects of violence on elementary school children. Bullying. Media and its impact on moral values among young people.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2816

fox@umd.edu

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Jeffrey C. Herf

Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Modern European and German intellectual, political and international history; memory and politics in Europe after 1945; Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitism during World War II and the Holocaust; old and new elements in contemporary terrorism; facing difficult pasts in comparative perspective.

Expertise Credentials:
Jeffrey Herf's newest book is "The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust" which was published by Harvard University Press in spring 2006. His books include "Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich" (1984), "War By Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance" and the Battle of the Euromissiles"(1991) and "Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys"(1997).

His recent publications include commentary on the similarities and differences between Europe's 20th century experience of totalitarianism and current debates about terrorism and the war in Iraq. Divided Memory was awarded the Fraenkel Prize (Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library in London) and the George Lewis Beer Prize (American Historical Association).

Herf has been a regular book reviewer for The New Republic and to its' online website. His political commentary has also appeared in major German newspapers. A scholarly essay on Nazi propaganda and the Jews will be published in Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Spring 2005.

Web Site(s):
History Dept. Web Page.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7667

jherf@umd.edu

Address:
2167 Francis Scott Key Hall
College Park, MD  20742

Degrees:
Ph.D, Sociology, Brandeis University

Publication(s):
Essay: Post World War II German reconstruction vs rebuilding Iraq
Historical Fiction [German History, Condoleezza Rice and Postwar Iraq
Das mußte sie wissen: Condoleezza Rice und die deutsche Geschichte, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 11, 2005.
Review of Norbert Frei, Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past
The Jewish War: Goebbels and the Antisemitic Campaigns of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, April 2005
Future Perfect: Condoleezza Rice's Hegelian View of History

Language(s):
German


 
Miriam Isaacs

Visiting Associate Professor

Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Yiddish Language and Culture including theater and film, Sociolinguistics, multiculturalism, fantasy and the supernatural in Yiddish literature, Holocaust and post-Holocaust literature.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 0264

misaacs@umd.edu

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Yelena Luckert

Librarian III

Libraries

Expertise Key Words:
Collection Management Librarian for History, Jewish Studies, Slavic Studies and Women's Studies.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9365

yluckert@umd.edu

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Yoram Peri

Director of The Gildenhorn Institute & Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies

Meyerhoff Program & Center for Jewish Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Israel, Middle East; Foreign and International Relations, Economics - the Economy and Trade. Communications; Military Relations

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9413

yperi@umd.edu

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Marsha L. Rozenblit

Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Modern Jewish History; History of the Jews in Central Europe; Jewish Social History in Modern Times; Jews in Europe; Jews in the United States; Modern Austrian History; History of Central Europe; Habsburg Monarchy

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4289

mrozenbl@umd.edu

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Paul L. Scham

Visit Asst Prof, Executive Director of Gildenhorn Inst. for Israel Studies

Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Middle East Conflict, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East peace process, Hamas-Israel relations, Israeli and Palestinian historical narratives, Israeli history, Israeli politics and society, History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9412

202-363-6094

202-701-3500

pscham@umd.edu
paulscham@gmail.com

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Saul Sosnowski

Associate Provost for International Affairs; Director

Office of International Programs

Expertise Key Words:
Latin American Fiction and Essay, Literary Criticism, Latin American-Jewish Literature and Cultures

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4772

sosnowsk@umd.edu

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Eric Zakim

Assistant Professor

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Expertise Key Words:
Israeli culture, Israeli politics, Israeli history, Zionism, Mediterranean culture, modern music, film theory, Holocaust literature, Holocaust film, Holocaust representation.

The intellectual history of Zionism and the relationship between politics and culture in Israel.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4250

zakim@umd.edu

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