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Emeritus, Department of Religious Studies -
Chair, Professor, Director of Modern Hebrew and Israel Studies Program
News
- NELC MA Graduate Bret Windhauser (June 13, 2020)
- Naomi Sokoloff's co-edited volume wins the prestigious National Jewish Book Award (January 15, 2020)
- NELC Major Mira Weimer on the Prophet Jonah across Abrahamic Texts (June 3, 2019)
- Afrassiabi Lecture 2019: Lior Sternfield on Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Centry (April 21, 2019)
- A new volume of articles celebrates Modern Hebrew language (March 22, 2018)
Research
- "What Poets Write About When They Write About Hebrew" in the Jewish Book Council's "Paper Brigade Daily" Learn more
- “The Nazi Beast at the Warsaw Zoo: Animal Studies, The Zookeeper’s Wife and See Under: Love.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture, edited by Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner (Palgrave, 2020). Learn more
- “The Poet’s Tallit: Prayer Shawls in Poems by Abraham Shlonsky, Yehuda Amichai, Myra Sklarew, and Yehoshua November.” CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly. Winter 2020, pp. 73-89. Learn more
- Windhauser, Bret. "Pushing Boundaries: Israeli-Palestinian Smuggling Across Border Walls" (2020). Thesis. Learn more
- What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans), edited by Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg (University of Washington Press, 2018) - Winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Anthologies and Collections. Learn more
- Naomi Sokoloff, "Rereading David Grossman’s See Under : Love," Prooftexts 35:1 (2015): 1-12. Learn more
- “Israel in Jewish American Literature.” In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Jewish American Literature. Ed. Hannah Wirth. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Learn more
- Naomi Sokoloff, The Boundaries of Jewish Identity, Co-edited with Susan Glenn (University of Washington Press, 2010). Learn more
- Naomi Sokoloff, The Jewish Presence in Children's Literature. Edited, with an introduction, with Suzanne Rahn. A special issue of The Lion and the Unicorn 27, 3 (September 2003 - Johns Hopkins University Press) Learn more
- Naomi Sokoloff, Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature. Edited, with Anne Lapidus Lerner and Anita Norich (The Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Harvard, 1992). Learn more
- Naomi Sokoloff, Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992). Learn more
- Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making, eds. Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff (SUNY Press, 2020). Learn more