People
Director
Adam Shear (Associate Professor, Religious Studies): medieval and early modern Jewish history.Faculty
Barbara Burstin (Lecturer, History): American Jewish history, Jews in Pittsburgh, US and the Holocaust.
Laurie Cohen (Jewish Studies Bibliographer, Hillman Library): Judaica library resources, Yiddish literature.
Amy-Diana Colin (Associate Professor, German): Holocaust literature, Paul Celan, German-Jewish culture and literature.
Seymour Drescher (University Professor, History): modern Europe, antisemitism, history of slavery.
Haya Feig (Lecturer, Religious Studies): Hebrew language.
Lucy Fischer (Distinguished Professor, English/Film Studies): Jews and the American cinema.
Laura Gotkowitz (Associate Professor, History): Jews in Latin America
Jonathan Harris (Professor, Political Science) republics of the former Soviet Union.
Lina Insana (Associate Professor, French and Italian): Primo Levi, Holocaust literature, 20th-century Italy.
Hannah Johnson (Assistant Professor, English): historiography of medieval Jewish-Christian relations.
Rachel Kranson (Assistant Professor, Religious Studies): American Jewish history; modern and contemporary Judaism.
Irina Livezeanu (Associate Professor, History): Jewish history in modern East-Central Europe.
Clark Muenzer (Associate Professor, German): post-Enlightenment German cultural history.
Leonard Plotnicov (Professor, Anthropology): ethnographic study of Jews in Pittsburgh.
Irina Reyn (Assistant Professor, English): creative writing, American Jewish literature.
Jerome L. Rosenberg (General Counsel’s Office): Professor emeritus of chemistry and biological sciences and dean emeritus.
Jason von Ehrenkrook (Perlow Lecturer, Religious Studies): classical Judaism.
Emeritus
Bernard Goldstein (University Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies): history of science and mathematics, medieval Judaism.
Alexander Orbach (Associate Professor, Religious Studies): modern Jewish history, Jews in Russia and the former Soviet Union, modern Israel.
Staff
Maureen Henderson, Program Administrator.Directors of the Program
Bernard Goldstein, 1973-1991.
Jerome L. Rosenberg, 1991-1999.
Alexander Orbach, 1999-2010.
