Faculty Research Interests

Jewish Studies faculty members are experts in their fields of study, and welcome the opportunity to share their expertise with the community. A list of selected topics follows, and we are happy to address special requests. Please contact the Jewish Studies office to involve one of our phenomenal educators in your next meeting!




Don C. Benjamin

Tanak, An Introduction
Archaeology and the Bible
Women in the Bible

Adam B. Cohen
Psychology and Forgiveness – Holocaust
Psychology and Moral Judgement
Psychology and Jewish Religious Identity

Robert Fine
Paths of Secular Judaism
Problems in Holocaust Education

David W. Foster

Jewish Buenos Aires
Latin American Jewish Culture

Joel Gereboff

Judaism and Bioethics
American Jews and American Judaism – Where We Are Heading
Jews and Christians in the Ancient World

Anna Holian
Modern European Jewish History
German and Eastern European Jewry

Rachel Leket-Mor
Judaica Collections at ASU Libraries
Israel Popular Literature Collections at ASU Libraries

David Pickus
Jews in German Lands
Jews in the Balkans
History of Zionism

Michael Rubinoff
American Jews in Us Politics and Media
Hollywood’s Images of Jews On Film
Anti-Semitism in the Media

Norbert Samuelson

Light and Enlightenment
The Death and Rebirth of Jewish Philosophy

Arieh Saposnik
Israeli Society/ Israeli Culture
Arab-Israel Conflict

Mark Von Hagen
Jews of Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Europe
World War I & II / Eastern Fronts

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