Jewish Studies

Kathryn Hellerstein
Professor of Germanic Languages
Ruth Meltzer Director of Jewish Studies Programkhellers@sas.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Film, Life Writing, Auto/biography, Novel, Poetry/ Poetics, Short Story, Central Europe, Diaspora, East Asia, Jewish Studies, Near East, US, Western Europe, World Literature, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Religion, Translation

Hilah Kohen
Ph.D. Student
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Fields of Study: Folk Tale & Oral Literature, Historiography and Historical Writing, Diaspora, Eastern Europe / Russia, Jewish Studies, Middle East/North Africa, World Literature, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Linguistic Theories and Culture, Marxism, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Sociology of Literature, Translation

Hilah Kohen
Ph.D. Candidate
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Fields of Study: Folk Tale & Oral Literature, Historiography and Historical Writing, Diaspora, Eastern Europe / Russia, Jewish Studies, Middle East/North Africa, World Literature, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Linguistic Theories and Culture, Marxism, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Sociology of Literature, Translation

Benjamin Nathans
Associate Professor of History
bnathans@history.upenn.eduWebsite