Working Groups

CURRENT

Jewish Caribbean Working Group- Fall 2024

Marilyn Miller

Sizeler Family Professorship in Judaic Studies II
  • Tulane University

Paul B. Miller

Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian
  • Vanderbilt University

Sarah Phillips Casteel

Professor of English
  • Carleton University
UPCOMING

Building Israel on the Ashes: The Shoah’s Influence on Right-Wing Zionism just before, during and after World War II : Spring 2025

Amir Goldstein

Associate Professor
  • Tel Hai University

Avi Shilon

Lecturer in History
  • Shazar Publishers
  • Columbia University

Brian Horowitz

  • Tulane University
CURRENT

Clashing with Jabotinsky: The Formation of the Zionist Right and Its Consequences for the Political Right in 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
  • Tel Hai University

Andrew Koss

Senior Editor
  • Mosaic Magazine

Avi Shilon

Lecturer in History
  • Shazar Publishers
  • Columbia University
PAST

Jewish Intellectual History in Eastern Europe

Brian Horowitz

  • Tulane University

Dimitry Shumsky

  • Hebrew University Jerusalem

David Myers

  • University of California Los Angeles
PAST

American Jewish Literature Working Group

The first meeting of its kind, this gathering of respected scholars aims to strengthen the field of American Jewish literature. The group’s challenges include…

Maeera Schreiber

  • University of Utah

Josh Lambert

  • Wellesley College
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
  • Tulane University

Jonathan Branfman

Postdoctoral Scholar at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies
  • Stanford University

Kathleen B. Casey

Associate Professor of History
  • 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

  • Tulane University

Andrew Koss

Senior Editor
  • Mosaic Magazine