Academic Jewish Studies: A View to the Future: Celebrating 50 Years!
Academic Jewish Studies: A View to the Future: Celebrating 50 Years!
Join us as we mark 50 years of Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, reflecting back on the history of the field of Jewish Studies and exploring the future possibilities for — and challenges to — our work in this shared field. Under rapidly changing and unpredictable circumstances, what can scholars of Jewish Studies expect to accomplish on the page, in the classroom, and in a broader shared intellectual community?
SPEAKERS:
Bernard Cooperman is the Louis L. Kaplan Professor of Jewish History. Professor Cooperman has edited two volumes of essays, co-authored a book on the Ghetto of Venice, translated and contributed an Afterword to Jacob Katz' Tradition and Crisis, and written two books which will be published soon. In addition he has written some eleven articles. He has organized numerous professional conferences and consults frequently with museums and libraries for exhibits in his field. He has been a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, has been a Lilly Fellow (1994-95), and has served as Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies 1991-1997. Most recently he has edited Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond (Brill, 2004)
Marsha Rozenblit is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History. A social and cultural historian of the Jews of Central Europe, Professor Rozenblit has published The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity ( SUNY Press,1984), which also appeared in a German translation (1989). This book used quantified methods to explore the impact of immigration, social mobility, residential concentration, education, and intermarriage and conversion on the integration of Viennese Jews into Austro-German society. More recently she has written Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I (Oxford University Press, 2001), which explores how the Jews, a group profoundly loyal to the multinational Monarchy, coped with the collapse of that supranational state and the creation of nation-states. The book thus explores both Jewish identity and ethnic and national identity in general. In 2005, along with Pieter M. Judson, she edited Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe (Berghahn Books), a collection of essays on the complex process of crafting national identities in Habsburg Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 2017, with Jonathan Karp, she edited World War I and the Jews: Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America (Berghahn Books), a collection of essays on how Jews in many regions coped with the problems of World War I, including patriotism, violence, and the need to create new identities in the nation states that succeeded the pre-war empires. She is currently working on a book on how Jews from the former Habsburg Monarchy who were lucky enough to flee Nazi Europe between 1938 and 1941, made or did not make new homes for themselves in the United States, Great Britain, and British Mandate Palestine (now Israel). Professor Rozenblit has also written many articles on such subjects as Jewish religious reform in nineteenth-century Vienna, Jewish courtship and marriage in 1920s Vienna, and Jews and German culture in Moravia, 1848-1938. She has served on the editorial boards of the Association for Jewish Studies Review and Jewish Social Studies, and regularly evaluates manuscripts for journals, presses, and foundations. She was Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland between 1998 and 2003. From 2009 to 2011 she was president of the Association for Jewish Studies, and she was Vice President for Program of that organization between 2006 and 2009. She is also a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research.
Joshua Furman Furman is the Jeanne Abrams Endowed Director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society at the University of Denver, where he also serves as Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Judaic Studies. Prior to moving to Colorado in 2024, he worked at Rice University from 2015 to 2023, where he served as the Associate Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and the founder and first curator of the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives. Dr. Furman has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Rose Community Foundation, and the Southern Jewish Historical Society. His work focuses on the experiences of American Jews and Jewish communities between the East and West Coasts, principally in Colorado and Texas. His recent publications examined Jewish immigration to the U.S. through Galveston, Texas in the years before WWI and the evolution of Jewish neighborhoods in Houston. He received his PhD in modern Jewish history from the University of Maryland – College Park in 2015.
Mikol Bailey is a Ph.D. candidate in early modern Jewish history, with a focus on Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Their dissertation focuses on the sociopolitical history the Jews of Lublin in the mid-sixteenth through mid-seventeenth centuries, with particular focus on Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish institutions, and gender.
Join us as we mark 50 years of Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, reflecting back on the history of the field of Jewish Studies and exploring the future possibilities for — and challenges to — our work in this shared field. Under rapidly changing and unpredictable circumstances, what can scholars of Jewish Studies expect to accomplish on the page, in the classroom, and in a broader shared intellectual community?
SPEAKERS:
Bernard Cooperman is the Louis L. Kaplan Professor of Jewish History. Professor Cooperman has edited two volumes of essays, co-authored a book on the Ghetto of Venice, translated and contributed an Afterword to Jacob Katz' Tradition and Crisis, and written two books which will be published soon. In addition he has written some eleven articles. He has organized numerous professional conferences and consults frequently with museums and libraries for exhibits in his field. He has been a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, has been a Lilly Fellow (1994-95), and has served as Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies 1991-1997. Most recently he has edited Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond (Brill, 2004)
Marsha Rozenblit is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History. A social and cultural historian of the Jews of Central Europe, Professor Rozenblit has published The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity ( SUNY Press,1984), which also appeared in a German translation (1989). This book used quantified methods to explore the impact of immigration, social mobility, residential concentration, education, and intermarriage and conversion on the integration of Viennese Jews into Austro-German society. More recently she has written Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I (Oxford University Press, 2001), which explores how the Jews, a group profoundly loyal to the multinational Monarchy, coped with the collapse of that supranational state and the creation of nation-states. The book thus explores both Jewish identity and ethnic and national identity in general. In 2005, along with Pieter M. Judson, she edited Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe (Berghahn Books), a collection of essays on the complex process of crafting national identities in Habsburg Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 2017, with Jonathan Karp, she edited World War I and the Jews: Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America (Berghahn Books), a collection of essays on how Jews in many regions coped with the problems of World War I, including patriotism, violence, and the need to create new identities in the nation states that succeeded the pre-war empires. She is currently working on a book on how Jews from the former Habsburg Monarchy who were lucky enough to flee Nazi Europe between 1938 and 1941, made or did not make new homes for themselves in the United States, Great Britain, and British Mandate Palestine (now Israel). Professor Rozenblit has also written many articles on such subjects as Jewish religious reform in nineteenth-century Vienna, Jewish courtship and marriage in 1920s Vienna, and Jews and German culture in Moravia, 1848-1938. She has served on the editorial boards of the Association for Jewish Studies Review and Jewish Social Studies, and regularly evaluates manuscripts for journals, presses, and foundations. She was Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland between 1998 and 2003. From 2009 to 2011 she was president of the Association for Jewish Studies, and she was Vice President for Program of that organization between 2006 and 2009. She is also a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research.
Joshua Furman Furman is the Jeanne Abrams Endowed Director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society at the University of Denver, where he also serves as Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Judaic Studies. Prior to moving to Colorado in 2024, he worked at Rice University from 2015 to 2023, where he served as the Associate Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and the founder and first curator of the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives. Dr. Furman has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Rose Community Foundation, and the Southern Jewish Historical Society. His work focuses on the experiences of American Jews and Jewish communities between the East and West Coasts, principally in Colorado and Texas. His recent publications examined Jewish immigration to the U.S. through Galveston, Texas in the years before WWI and the evolution of Jewish neighborhoods in Houston. He received his PhD in modern Jewish history from the University of Maryland – College Park in 2015.
Mikol Bailey is a Ph.D. candidate in early modern Jewish history, with a focus on Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Their dissertation focuses on the sociopolitical history the Jews of Lublin in the mid-sixteenth through mid-seventeenth centuries, with particular focus on Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish institutions, and gender.
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