Speakers Bureau

Faculty in the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh are available to speak to area Jewish congregations and other community organizations on many topics. Please contact them directly.

Barbara Burstin, History

burstin@pitt.edu

  • Sophie Masloff, first Jewish female mayor of Pittsburgh
  • Pittsburgh Jewish history
  • FDR and the Holocaust

Haya Feig, Hebrew Language

feig@pitt.edu

  • Israeli Cinema 

Benjamin Gordon, Religious Studies

bdg36@pitt.edu

  • Jerusalem Temple
  • Archelology of Israel
  • The Ancient Synagogue

Lina Insana, French & Italian

insana@pitt.edu

  • Holocaust Literature
  • Primo Levi
  • Holocaust in Italy

Rachel Kranson, Religious Studies

kranson@pitt.edu

  • Antisemitic violence in America  Jews & reproductive rights
  • History of Jewish feminism
  • American Jews in the suburbs
  • American Jews in the 1950s
  • American Jewish counterculture
  • (1960s-70s)
  • History of women in the rabbinate

Irina Livezeanu, History

irinal@pitt.edu 

  • Romanian Jews in the 20th century
  • Balkan Jewry
  • Jewish Emancipation & Antisemitism in East Central Europe

Irina Reyn, Creative Writing

irr2@pitt.edu

  • Readings from her novels

Adam Shear, Religious Studies

ashear@pitt.edu

  • History of books
  • Impact of printing
  • Jews in Italy
  • Jewish – Muslim – Christian relations