Some of the CUNY faculty doing work in the field of Jewish Studies:
André Aciman
Comparative Literature, French
Office phone: 212-817-8170
E-mail: aaciman@gc.cuny.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Memory, Diaspora, Sephardic Studies, 17th Century
Arnold Franklin
Hunter College; Classical and Oriental Studies
Office phone: 212-772-4968
Email: afrankli@hunter.cuny.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publications: Jewish culture in the medieval Islamic world
Yitzhak Berger
Hunter College; Hebrew Division
Office phone number: 212-772-5058
E-mail address: bergeryd@hotmail.com
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Biblical interpretation; biblical narrative
Emily Braun
Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center; Art History
Office phone: 212-650-3756
E-mail: ebraun@hunter.cuny.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Modern Italy, Fascist Culture, Jewish Studies and Women’s Studies
Randolph Braham
CUNY Graduate Center; Holocaust Studies
Professor Emeritus
Office phone: 212-817-1949
Email: rbraham@gc.cuny.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Hungarian Holocaust Studies
Stephan Brumberg
Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center; School of Education (BC), Urban Education (GC)
Office phone: 718-951-5222
E-mail: Brumberg@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Religious conflicts in 19th c. America (Protestant, Catholic, Jewish) and their impact on the shaping of American education
Lisa Finder
Hunter College; Library
Office phone: 212-772-4186
E-mail: lfinder@hunter.cuny.edu
Website: http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/subguides/jews_sg.htm
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Library collection development in Jewish Studies
Ziva Flamhaft
Queens College; Political Svciecne
Office phone: 718-997-5400
E-mail: ziva.flamhaft@qc.cuny.edu or zivaf@nyc.rr.com
Website: http://qcpages.qc.edu/Political_Science/professors/flamhaft.html
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Arab-Israeli peace process, Israeli/Palestinian women and war, the personal narrative and nation building
Rivka Friedman
Hunter College; Hebrew Division, Classical and Oriental Studies
Office phone: 212-772-5107
E-mail: rfriedma@hunter.cuny.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Modern Hebrew Literature
Jane S. Gerber
CUNY Graduate Center; History, Center for Jewish Studies
Office phone: 212-817-1946
E-mail: gerberjs@aol.com
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jewry- particularly medieval-early modern
Nora Glickman
Queens College, CUNY Graduate Center; Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures (QC), Liberal Studies (GC)
Office phone: 718-997-5649 or 5660, 914-725-1522
E-mail: NGlickman@aol.com
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Latin American Jewish Literature, Cinema and Theatre, Sephardic Spanish and Latin American Cultures
Steven M. Gorelick
Hunter College; Media Studies
Office phone: 212-650-3089
Email: sgorelic@hunter.cuny.edu
Website: http://fm.hunter.cuny.edu/faculty_pages/gorelick_steve.shtml
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Mass Media; Criminology, Genocide and Propaganda; Sociology of Culture; Fulbright Scholar, Germany, 2007; Residential Faculty Seminar, Institute for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2000
Jack Jacobs
John Jay College, CUNY Graduate Center; Political Science
Office: 212-817-8701
E-mail: jjacobs@gc.cuny.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Jewish socialist and labor movements, Jewish politics in Eastern Europe, the Frankfurt School on Antisemitism and the image of the Jew
Gail Levin
Baruch College, Graduate Center; Art History, American Studies, Fine and Performing Arts, Women’s Studies
Office phone: 646-312-4062
E-mail: gail_levin@baruch.cuny.edu
Website: http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/glevin/index.html
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Jewish women artists; Jewish women in the theater; Feminism and Jewish ideas on sexuality
Stuart Liebman
Queens College, CUNY Graduate Center; Department of Media Studies (QC), Programs in Art History and Theatre (GC)
Office phone: 718-997-2962
E-mail: sliebman@gc.cuny.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Holocaust cinema
Sondra Perl
Lehman College, CUNY Graduate Center; English, Urban Education
E-mail: Sondra.perl@lehman.cuny.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Post-Holocaust Dialogue, Faculty Development in Holocaust Education, Writing as Inquiry
Steven Remy
Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center; History
Email: SRemy@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Modern German History
Judith Friedman Rosen
CUNY Graduate Center; Jewish Studies
Email: jfrosen3@aol.com
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Jews of Forest Hills, New York
Laura S. Schor
Hunter College; History
E-mail: lschor@hunter.cuny.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publication: British Mandate in Palestine
Robert M. Seltzer
Hunter College, CUNY Graduate School; History Department, Hunter Jewish Social Studies Program
Office phone: 212-772-5490
E-mail: rseltzer@hunter.cuny.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Jewish historiography, modern Jewish intellectual history, the work of Simon Dubnow
Robert Moses Shapiro
Brooklyn College; Judaic Studies
Office phone: 718-951-5000, ext. 3990
E-mail: rshapiro@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publication: East European Jewry, Poland and Polish Jews, Holocaust, Yiddish language and literature, Jewish communal autonomy and organization, Lodz Ghetto
Joseph Sungolowsky
Queens College; Department of European Languages and Literatures
Office phone: 718-997-5653
E-mail: sungolowsky@aol.com
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Contemporary French Jewish Literature & Thought
Mervin F. Verbit
Professor Emeritus
Brooklyn College; Sociology
Office phone: 212-242-4668, ext. 6047
E-mail: mervin.verbit@touro.edu
Current interests and/or areas of publication: Sociology of religion, contemporary Jewry especially in the U.S. and Israel
