Visiting Scholars
Zev Harvey
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professor Harvey studied philosophy at Columbia University (BA, 1965; Ph.D., 1973) and taught in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University (1971-1977), before moving to Jerusalem in 1977. He is the author of many studies on medieval and modern Jewish philosophy, including Physics and Metaphysics in Hasdai Crescas (1998). He is an EMET Prize laureate (2009).
Professor Harvey will be teaching Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed and the graduate level course Medievel Philosophy in Fall 2012.
Mark Kligman
Adjunct Visiting Professor of Music, Columbia University
Professor of Music, Hebrew Union College
Mark Kligman, Ph.D., is Professor of Jewish Musicology at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York where he teaches in the School of Sacred Music.
Educated at New York University and California State University, he earned his doctorate in Musicology with and emphasis on Ethnomusicology at NYU in 1997. Dr. Kligman specializes in the liturgical traditions of Middle Eastern Jewish communities and has published several articles on the liturgy of Syrian Jews. His work also extends to historical trends in the liturgical music of Ashkenazic and Sephardic traditions. Another area of research is contemporary Jewish music since the 1970s.
Professor Kligman will be teaching Jewish Music in New York in Fall 2012.
Alyssa Quint
Lecturer in Yiddish Language, Columbia University
aq2134@columbia.edu
Alyssa Quint teaches Yiddish language and literature at Columbia University. She received her PhD at Harvard University where she wrote a dissertation on the modern Yiddish theater. She has published articles and book reviews in various academic journals. She is currently at work on a digital project called Mapping Yiddish Theater that weds history, culture and language-learning with the experience of the Yiddish theater in New York City.
Jonathan Schorsch
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar
Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies, Columbia University
Jonathan Schorsch received his Ph.D. in Jewish history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000. His research interests include early modern Sephardic culture and history; race and religion; anthropology of Jews and Judaism; and early modern Jewish-Christian relations. He has published two books: Swimming the Christian Atlantic: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Seventeenth-Century Iberian World (Brill, 2008) and Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Scholarly essays include “Mosseh Pereyra de Paiva: An Amsterdam Portuguese Jewish Merchant Abroad in the Seventeenth Century,” in The Dutch Intersection: The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History, ed. Yosef Kaplan (Leiden: Brill, 2008); “Disappearing Origins: Sephardic Autobiography Today,” Prooftexts 27,1 (2007); and "Jewish Ghosts in Germany," Jewish Social Studies 9,3 (Spring/Summer 2003). His general-interest writing has covered topics such as socially responsible investing, the environment, Judaism and ecology, and contemporary Jewish music, published in venues such as Tikkun, Sh'ma, Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, Eretz Acheret, and European Judaism.
Rafi Tsirkin-Sadan
Rabin Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies, Columbia University
Rafi Tsirkin-Sadan has received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2010. His research interests include Hebrew literature, Russian literature and intellectual history, literature and migration, literature and history. Rafi is the author of two books Y.H. Brenner and Russian Literature (Bialik Institute), and Nihilism in Russian Literature (Van Leer/Hakibutz Hameuhad), both of which will be published in 2013.
Dr. Tsirkin-Sadan will be teaching Migration in Modern Jewish Literature in Fall 2012 and The Image of Jerusalem in Modern Hebrew Literature in Spring 2013.
Raz Yosef
Visiting Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
Senior Lecturer/Chair Cinema Studies BA Program, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Yosef received his PhD from the Department Cinema Studies at New York University. He is the author of Beyond Flesh: Queer Masculinities and Nationalism in Israeli Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2004), and The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema (Routledge, 2011) and the coeditor of Just Images: Ethics and the Cinematic (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). His work on gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationalism in Israeli visual culture has appeared in GLQ, Third Text, Framework, Shofar, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Camera Obscura, and Cinema Journal.
Dr. Yosef will be teaching Topics in World Cinema: Contemporary Israeli Cinema in Fall 2012.