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 The Graduate School of Jewish Studies
The Graduate School of Jewish Studies has the following developments to report:
• Internationally Respected Scholar Joins Faculty: The School welcomed Dr. Natalia Aleksiun, an internationally respected scholar of Eastern European Jewish history and Holocaust studies, to the full-time graduate faculty this fall. Dr. Aleksiun previously had been serving as associate professor at Jagiellonian University, Cracow; a visiting professor at Collegium Civitas College of Social Studies in Warsaw; and a Mac Cracken Fellow in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Her book: “The Zionist Movement in Poland, |
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1944-1950” (in Polish) has been hailed as an outstanding contribution to scholarship, and she has published dozens of scholarly articles and reviews in several languages. Her forthcoming book (in English) examines Jewish historical scholarship in Poland: “Historians on a National Mission: Jewish Historical Scholarship in Poland, 1918-1939.” Dr. Aleksiun is the recipient of numerous fellowships and prizes, including the Lady Davis Fellowship, Skirball Oxford Fellowship, and the Prime Minister of Poland's Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation. Recently Dr. Aleksiun spoke at Youngstown State University on the topic “Polish Jewry Between the Two World Wars.”
 • Faculty scholar and award-winning author to publish new book: Professor Miriam Bodian, an internationally respected scholar of the history of the conversos and the converso diaspora, has authored a new book: “Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World.” Indiana University Press will publish the book this fall. Professor Bodian's previous book, “Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam” (Indiana University Press, 1997) was awarded the 1998 National Jewish Book Award in history, and the first Koret Jewish Book Award in history.
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