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Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

Announcements

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Dec. 16, 2019

The Skirball Department congratulates Professor Marion Kaplan on the release of her new book - Hitler's Jewish Refugees, Hope and Anxiety in Portugal
Dec. 18, 2019

Congratulations to PhD Student Ilan Benattar for winning the GSAS Torch Fellowship for his Dissertation "But It Is Not So in the Kingdom of Ishmael: Diaspora, Exile, and Cultural Politics in the Final Ottoman Jewish Generation (1902-1909)” 
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Dec. 18, 2019

The Skirball Department congratulates former PhD Student Allan Amanik on publishing Dust to Dust, A History of Jewish Death and Burial in New York as part of the Goldstein-Goren Book Series

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Robert Chazan

S H And Helen R Scheuer Prof Mod Jewish Hist, & Prof. Hist

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Marion Kaplan

Skirball Prof Mod Jew History

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