Somerville, Massachusetts30+ days ago
Research interests may include, but are not limited to: Jewish history in medieval, early modern, and modern Europe; Jewish textual cultures in Hebrew and European vernaculars (e.g., Yiddish, Ladino, German, Russian); Jewish–Christian intellectual encounters; Jewish political history (from the kehillah to citizenship); and Jewish engagements with European philosophy, political thought, secularism, nationalism, emancipation, and memory. These courses may include a lecture course such as Jewish Communities in Europe, offering a historical overview from the medieval period through the twentieth century, and/or an upper-level seminar such as Jewish Literature and the Western Political Imagination, examining themes of emancipation, nationalism, secularism, canon formation, and representation through close textual analysis and historical context.