The historic preservation field is grappling with a “diversity deficit:” resources that are officially recognized as significant do not fully represent America’s diverse population, and historically marginalized communities are underrepresented in National Register of Historic P…
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Established in 1516 on an abandoned manufacturing site, the Ghetto of Venice was an experiment in containment as a means of maintaining coexistence between the early modern Republic’s Christian and Jewish populations. The walls that surrounded the Venetian Ghetto served both Chr…
In the Weimar Republic, physicians joined the Nazi Party; in fact, nearly half of all German physicians joined, making physicians the largest group of professionals to become members. The German Medical Society became instrumental in the state medical program after 1933, commenc…
This dissertation charts three strategies undertaken by American Orthodox Jews to fashion a Judaism for the newly college educated Jewish masses in the decades following the Holocaust. By examining the ways in which modern Orthodox, Chabad Hassidim, and Haredi Jews turned to the…
When teaching Jewish texts depicting genders as unequal, educators have expressed the concern that students may question Jewish ethics if texts are not seen as representing more positive values and gender roles. This speaks to the often-stated goal for Jewish education to give s…
This thesis analyzes how Joan Rivers’ comedy content and style changed during the first 30 years of her career and how these changes impacted Rivers’ presentation of her identity as a Jewish female comedian. This project focuses on Joan Rivers’ career in two sections: her early …
This dissertation argues that Stalin’s rumored plan to deport the Jews of the Soviet Union to locations in the Soviet Far East in 1953 can be examined as a plot-generating device, irrespective of the question of its historical reality. Seen in this light, the deportation plan fi…
Youth mentoring programs are a service widely engaged with across the United States anddefined as “structured services designed to promote positive relationships between youth andnon-parental adults” (Lyons & McQuillin, 2018, p. 1). The purpose of these relationships are the…
Muscular Judaism, a concept presented by Zionist leader Max Nordau at the Second Zionist Congress of 1898, had far reaching ramifications. One of these was the construction of a new human type; the blond haired, blue eyed, masculine and muscular indigenous/authentic Hebrew perso…
The current study was intended to offer a method of treatment, based on Bowen's family system model, which would consider the needs of Iranian Jewish Individuals seeking assistance with dating for marriage in the United States. Iranian Jews who are encountering difficulties freq…
Israel has one of the most highly-developed hiking trail networks in the world. It covers the entire country, including the Golan Heights and the West Bank, and its history spans that of the modern State of Israel. However, despite the fact that the marked and mapped trail syste…
This study is an examination of the life and work of Tehilla Lichtenstein (1893-1973), cofounder and leader of the Society of Jewish Science movement in New York City. An immigrant with her family in 1904 from Palestine and Constantinople, Lichtenstein was a graduate student at …
My dissertation investigates the nature of the religious culture of Israeli Jews who trace their ancestry to the Lands of Islam, commonly referred to collectively as "Sephardim," as it has been reconstructed within the elementary, middle, and high schools affiliated or associate…
Most colleges require students to take at least one foreign language course in order to graduate. Some students tend to put this requirement off to the end of their program due to language learning anxiety, and attrition rates in these courses are high. This study asks the follo…
The subject of the Displaced persons, the United States and creation of the State of Israel is one that has been examined multiple times to the point where there is a generally accepted paradigm in which American Zionist groups favoring the creation of Israel are placed in direc…
Conflicts and Repetition: The Politics of Poetic Reiteration in Hebrew and Arabic Literatures considers conflict as the basic condition of both politics and literature. In this study, I claim that although there are countless possible ways of conceptualizing conflict, normative …
This dissertation explores the historical and cultural background of the rabbanic eruv. Eruv, a word that signifies 'mixture', 'combination' or 'fusion' will be used in this dissertation to refer to an eruv hatzerot, the joining of the residents of a limited area or space for th…
The Tabernacle is one of the most important subjects in all of Scripture, as it reflects the deep desire of God to have a relationship with His people. This discussion seeks to understand the importance of the Tabernacle, and its use in Scripture, as a focal point for the revela…
This research traces the cultural, religious and organizational roots of the Zionist movement from the First Zionist Congress in 1897 through the Balfour Declaration in 1917. Using newspaper articles, diaries and journals of Zionist leaders, archives from the World Zionist Organ…