Recent and Current Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associates

Beth Berkowitz (2001-2003). Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Her first book is Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Rebecca Kobrin (2002-2004). Assistant Professor in History at Columbia University. Her first book, Between Exile and Empire: Jewish Bialystok and its Diaspora (Indiana University Press) is forthcoming.

Jonathan Ray (2003-2005). Samuel Eig Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Georgetown University. His first book is The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia (Cornell University Press, 2006).

David Lambert (2004-2007). Visiting Assistant Professor in the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University.

Mara Benjamin (2005-2008). Assistant Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College. Her first book, Rosenzweig’s Bible: Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity (Cambridge University Press) is forthcoming.

Daniel Stein Kokin (2006-2009). Medieval and early modern Jewish history.

Samuel (Shai) Secunda (2007-2009. Ancient Jewish history and rabbinic literature.

Hizky Shoham (2008-2010). Modern Israeli culture.

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