Faculty Publications
Over the past five years, faculty affiliated with the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life have published 13 monographs and co-written books, 3 edited volumes, 78 peer reviewed articles and books chapters. They edit 3 journals, have guest edited 4 journal issues, have given hundreds of keynote lectures, invited lectures, conference presentations, have spoken at dozens of community events, and have given hundreds of media appearances. Notable among these for their particular relevance to the teaching, research, and outreach mission of the center are the publications listed below.
Books
- Avinoam Patt, Israel and the Holocaust: A History. Bloomsbury Press, 2024
- The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt. Wayne State University Press, 2021. Finalist: Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Studies
- Sarah S. Willen, Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins. University of Pennsylvania Press. [Hardback 2019; paperback 2021]
Edited Volumes
- Raphael Koenig and Max Kohn, eds. Le yiddish, l’inconscient, les langues, Brill, 2025.
- Avinoam Patt, Jewish Displaced Persons after the Holocaust: Document Collection, Encyclopedia of Jewish Tradition, Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig, Germany (2024)
- Dieter Koller and Sebastian Wogenstein (eds.). Dos gezang fun vilner geto: Lieder aus dem Wilnaer Ghetto, gesammelt von Shmerke Kaczerginski. Leipzig: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2025.
- Stuart Miller, Senior Editor of Co-Edited Volume: From Scrolls to Tradition: A Festschrift Honoring Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman (co-editors: Michael Swartz, Steven Fine, Alex Jassen, Naomi Gruenhaus) Published by Brill, 2021.
Articles
- Lewis Gordon, “An Afro-Jewish Reflection on Freedom,” Fragments, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 70–77.
- “Jewish Diversity,” in Religion: Bloomsbury Religion in North America (BRINA), edited by Gary G. Porton. London: Bloomsbury, online 2022.
- Judaism in North America: An Introduction, edited by Gary G. Porton. London: Bloomsbury 2024, 141–157.
- “Eine Schwarz-jüdische Reflexion über die Hautfarbe von Juden” / “A Black Jewish Reflection on the ‘Color’ of Jews,” in the catalog „(Welche) FARBEN (haben die Juden?)“, / “(What) COLORS (Are The Jews?),” Jewish Museum Vienna (2025), 185–190.
- Joy Land, “Creating Cultural Capital: The Education of Jewish Females at the Alliance Israelite Universelle (AIU) School for Girls in the City of Tunis, 1882-1914,” HAWWA – Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 22(4): 1-59, June 2021
- Miller, Yonatan S. “A Countertext to the Epistle to the Hebrews from the Cairo Genizah.” Henoch 47:1 (2025): 150–160.
- “Violence and the Israelite Priesthood: Between Sacrifice and Bloodshed.” Harvard Theological Review 118:1 (2025): 1–18. Open Access.
- “Phinehas: Judaism.” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception 24 (2025).
- Brady Ryan, “Inheriting Cosmopolitanism: Intergenerational Memoirs of Jewish Egyptian Communists,” Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism 2, no. 2 (2024): 64-84.
- Sarah S. Willen, Sebastian Wogenstein, & Katherine A. Mason. (2020). “Everyday Disruptions and Jewish Dilemmas: Preliminary Insights from the Pandemic Journaling Project.” Jewish Social Studies 26(1): 192-212.
- Sebastian Wogenstein, “’Die Menschenrechte haben kein Geschlecht’: Hedwig Dohm’s Feminist Conception of Human Rights.” German Life and Letters 78 (2025): 108-125.
- “Von der ‘großen Suppenfrage’ zu den ‘Gottesrechten des Menschen’: Menschenrechte bei Heine.” Heine-Jahrbuch 62 (2023): 3-18.
- “Rosenzweig’s Silences: Tragedy and Life in The Star of Redemption.” Rosenzweig Jahrbuch/Rosenzweig Yearbook 12 (2021): 173-189.
Book Chapters
- Jessica Cooperman, “What are Jewish Christian Relations.” In Judaism in Five Minutes, edited by Sarah Imhoff. Equinox, 2025.
- “The Impact of World War I and World War II on American Jewish History.” In the Oxford Handbook of American Jewish History, edited by Michael Cohen and Shari Rabin. Oxford University Press, 2025.
- “Protestant Theology and the Goals of Jewish-Christian Relations,” co-authored with Amy Weiss. In America’s Jewish Questions, edited by Lila Corwin Berman, Deborah Dash Moore and Beth Wenger. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025.
- “The Jewish Welfare Board and the Challenges of Zionism in Wartime America.” In An Equal Share of Freedom: American Jews, Zionism, and World War I, edited by Mark Raider and Gary Zola. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press, 2024.
- Raphael Koenig, “Yiddish as Philosophical Fiction: Deleuze and Guattari, Kafka, and Yiddish.” In Le yiddish, l’inconscient, les langues, co-edited by Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature Raphael Koenig and psychoanalyst and emeritus professor Max Kohn, was published in 2025 at Brill.
- Stuart Miller, “Roth’s Jewish Weequahic: Perception or Reality and Why it Matters,” Philip Roth Studies, Special Issue: Roth and Judaism 18.1 (2022), 80–102.
- “‘Minhag’ and Popular Practice in Roman Palestine,” Land and Spirituality in Rabbinic Literature, in Shana S. Schick, ed., Land and Spirituality in Rabbinic Literature (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 51–62.
- “‘All Law begins with Custom:’ Rabbinic Awareness of Popular Practice and its Implications for the Study of the Jews of Roman Palestine,” From Scrolls to Tradition: A Festschrift Honoring Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman (Stuart S. Miller, Michael Swartz, Steven Fine, Alex Jassen, Naomi Gruenhaus, eds., Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2021), 350–397.
- “Torah, Law and Commandments,” Jewish Annotated Apocrypha, (Jonathan Klawans and Lawrence Wills, eds., Oxford, 2020), 620–625.
- Sebastian Wogenstein: “Hermann Broch und das City of Man-Projekt.” Massenwahntheorie und Friedenspoetik: Hermann Broch und die bedrohte Demokratie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Ed. by Sarah McGaughey, Elisa Risi, Daniel Weidner, and Doren Wohlleben, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023: 165-184.
- Zawdu, Adane and Sarah S. Willen. (2021). “Immigration Dynamics and Changing Constructions of Jewish Nativeness in Israel.” In Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society. Reuven Hazan, Alan Dowty, Menachem Hofnung, and Gidi Rahat, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Journals and Special Issues
- Jessica Cooperman, co-editor, Journal of American Jewish History
- Raphael Koenig, Editorial Board, In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies
- Fred Roden Guest Editor, special double issue: “Memory, Religion and the Arts.” Religion and the Arts 29(2025). “Introduction: Memory, Religion and the Arts.” Religion and the Arts 29(2025): 1-6. “Jewish Memory, Jewish Legacies: On Forgetting and Remembering.” Religion and the Arts 29(2025): 252-270.
Lectures and Public Presentations
- Philip Balma, Invited Lecture: “Immagini dell’inferno: Se questo è un uomo di Primo Levi,” College of the Holy Cross, Program in Italian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Worcester, Massachusetts, March 2021.
- Invited Lecture: “Dal romanzo allo schermo: appunti su alcune ramificazioni cinematografiche della visione artistica di Edith Bruck,” First International Conference on the writings of Edith Bruck, “Le forme nella memoria. Edith Bruck tra letteratura, cinema, testimonianza.” Università di Macerata, October 2023.
- Invited Lecture: “La Shoah in Italia: persecuzione degli ebrei italiani e l’Olocausto (1938–1945),” College of the Holy Cross, Program in Italian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Worcester, Massachusetts, February 2025.
- Keynote Address: “From Page to Screen: Notes on the Cinematic Ramifications of Edith Bruck’s Holocaust Writing.” Italian Language Week at the University of Calgary, October 17, 2025
- Lewis Gordon, “AJS 2020 Plenary: Why Racism Should Matter for Jewish Studies Scholars,” 16 December 2020.
- “Africana Jewish Studies,” The Irving Glovin Lecture, Dalhousie University (25 March 2021).
- “Nostalgia & Reality: Black & Jewish Relationships in the 1960s and Beyond,” co-panelists Cortland Cox, Ira Grupper, and Cheryl Greenbrg, Judaism on Our Own Terms (7 May 2021).
- “Dialogue with Professor Lewis Ricardo Gordon: A Discussion on Black Jewish History,” Kehilla Community Synagogue, Piedmont, CA (30 July 2023).
- “‘É a extrema direita quem luta dos dois lados em Gaza’, afirma filósofo judeu Lewis R. Gordon,” Por Eduardo Graça — São Paulo, O Globo – Mundo (3 December 2023).
- “Lewis Gordon on Israel – Thursday Jan. 11, 2024,” Posted on Redding News Review (11 January 2024).
- Daniel Hershezon, “Maghrebi Jews in Post Expulsion Spain: The Case of Yehudah Malaqui,” Association for Jewish Studies, Washington DC December 2025.
- Yonatan Miller, “Decolonizing Ancient Palestine: The Jewish Fight Against Empire.” ALEPH Program, Mandell JCC, West Hartford, CT. February 29, 2024. Partner: Mandell JCC of Greater
- “Outsiders or Insiders: The Conquest of Canaan Reconsidered.” ALEPH Program, Mandell JCC, West Hartford, CT. February 22, 2024. Partner: Mandell JCC of Greater Hartford.
- “Denialism, Conspiracism, and Campus Antisemitism.” Congregation Beth David, West Hartford, CT. June 11, 2024. Partner: Congregation Beth David (Modern Orthodox Synagogue)
- “The Born Legacy? New Perspectives on Priestly Identity.” Columbia Hebrew Bible Seminar, Columbia University. December 9, 2025. Role: Invited lecturer representing UConn.
- Fred Roden, “Academic Conversions; Or, How I Became a Jew-ish Scholar.” Dartmouth College Faculty Seminar in Jewish Studies. February 9, 2021.
- Interview on Israeli expatriate literature with Maya Arad, UConn Stamford. April 10, 2025.
- Interview on Jewish literature of post-Soviet diaspora with Ellen Litman, UConn Stamford. March 27, 2025. Interview on colonial American Jewish life with B.H. Levy, UConn Stamford. January 30, 2025.
- Respondent: Meri-Jane Rochelson, Eli’s Story: Holocaust Remembrance. April 18, 2023. “Memory’s Heirs.”
- Organizer, Chair and Respondent, “The Legacy of European Jewry: The Second Generation and Beyond.” Yom Hashoah Panel. UConn-Stamford. April 6, 2021.
- Sarah Willen, Invited respondent to Marshall Sklare Keynote Lecture by Professor Uzi Rebhun. Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting. (Washington, DC), 2025
- “Citizens, ‘Real’ Others, and ‘Other’ Others.” Presented at the public symposium, “Racial Borders.” Collège de France. (Paris, France), 2023
- Keynote: “Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins.” Presented at the workshop, “Migration, Religion, and Medicine at State Margins.” DAAD Centre for German Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Freie Universität Berlin. (Jerusalem, Israel/Zoom) 2022
- “Who Belongs in Israel, Who Doesn’t—and Who Cares? Ethnographic Perspectives on Jewish-Israeli Migrant Rights Activism in Tel Aviv.” Department of Anthropology, Emory University (Atlanta, GA), 2022
- “What We Learn at Israel’s Margins: West African and Filipino Migrant Life in Tel Aviv.” Siegel Lifelong Learning, Case Western Reserve University. (Cleveland, OH), 2022
- AIS Distinguished Lecture: “Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins.” Association for Israel Studies Distinguished Lectureship Series & Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel, Michigan State University. (East Lansing, MI/Zoom), 2021
- “Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins.” Judaic Studies Program Book Talk Series. Penn State University. (State College, PA/Zoom.), 2021