Working Groups
CURRENT
American Jewish Literature Working Group
The American Jewish Literature Working Group of the Grant Center at Tulane convened at the suggestion of Michael Cohen, and has been co-organized by…
Maeera Schreiber
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University of Utah
Josh Lambert
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Wellesley College
Michael Cohen
Stuart and Suzanne Grant Professor in the American Jewish Experience
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Tulane University
CURRENT
Jewish Caribbean Working Group
Marilyn Miller
Sizeler Family Professorship in Judaic Studies II
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Tulane University
Paul B. Miller
Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian
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Vanderbilt University
Sarah Phillips Casteel
Professor of English
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Carleton University
UPCOMING
Jewish Historiography in the United States and Europe: Spring 2025
Amir Goldstein
Associate Professor
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Tel Hai University
Avi Shilon
Lecturer in History
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Shazar Publishers
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Columbia University
Brian Horowitz
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Tulane University
CURRENT
Clashing with Jabotinsky: Liberal Zionism in the United States and Israel: FALL 2024
Our thesis is that during this key period, the Zionist Right attracted to its ranks diverse individuals with a myriad of ideologies in Eastern…
Amir Goldstein
Associate Professor
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Tel Hai University
Andrew Koss
Senior Editor
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Mosaic Magazine
Avi Shilon
Lecturer in History
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Shazar Publishers
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Columbia University
PAST
Jewish Intellectual History
Brian Horowitz
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Tulane University
Dimitry Shumsky
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Hebrew University Jerusalem
David Myers
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University of California Los Angeles
PAST
American Jewish Economic History Working Group
Read more about the twelve scholars and outside specialists participating in our American Jewish Economic History Working Group. The invited presenters have led discussions…
Michael Cohen
Stuart and Suzanne Grant Professor in the American Jewish Experience
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Tulane University
Sven Beckert
Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University
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Harvard University
Aviva Ben-Ur
Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies
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University of Massachusetts – Amherst
PAST
Jewish Gender Performance and Drag Working Group
This Zoom-based working group aims to think through questions of how gendered representations of Jewishness and Jewish representations of gender are rendered, performed, and…
Golan Moskowitz
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies
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Tulane University
Jonathan Branfman
Postdoctoral Scholar at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies
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Stanford University
Kathleen B. Casey
Associate Professor of History
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Virginia Wesleyan University
PAST
Joseph Schechtman – Across Continents—From Europe to the US, from Revisionism to American Conservatism
Working Group will be sponsored by Tulane University’s Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience as part of a larger effort to bring scholars…
Brian Horowitz
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Tulane University
Andrew Koss
Senior Editor
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Mosaic Magazine
