Jenna Stover-Kemp works in the area of Hebrew Bible and is interested in cultural memory and intertextuality. Her dissertation traces three case studies from different literary genres and analyzes how relatively late biblical authors work with the memory of earlier text. Principally, she is interested in how forgetting is an aide to...
Sheer Ganor Sheer Ganor is a historian of German-speaking Jewry. Her research focuses on the nexus of forced migration, memory and cultural identities. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled “In Scattered Formation: Displacement, Alignment and the German-Jewish Diaspora.” This study traces the emergence of a transnational diasporic network of Jewish refugees...
B.A., Yeshiva University M.A in Jewish Thought, Hebrew University Ph.D. Candidate in Jewish Studies, UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union
Before joining the JDP, Rosen attended numerous traditional and innovative yeshivot in Israel. His research focuses both on the history of Midrash and Medieval Kabbalah. He hopes to write his...
Anna Elena Torres is the Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. She received a PhD from UC Berkeley, with a dissertation titled “‘With an Undone Shirt (Mit a tseshpilyet hemd)’: Anarchist Modernism and Yiddish Literature.” This research documents...
Dissertation Title: Rabbis on the Road: Exposition En Route in Classical Rabbinic Texts
Current Position: Liaison for the Judaic, Yiddish and Israel Studies Collection at the UC Berkeley Library
David Michel Rosenberg-Wohl
Advisor: Erich Gruen
Dissertation Title: Reconstructing Jewish Identity on the Foundations of Hellenistic History: Azariah de’ Rossi’s Me’or ‘Enaym in the Late 16th Century Northern Italy
Dissertation Title: Contradictions and Vile Utterances: The Zoroastrian Critique of Judaism in the Škand Gumānīg Wizār
Current Position: Samuel Frank Thrope is a Jerusalem-based writer and the translator of Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s The Israeli Republic. He received the Golda Meir postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Jenna Stover Kemp 
Sheer Ganor Sheer Ganor is a historian of German-speaking Jewry. Her research focuses on the nexus of forced migration, memory and cultural identities. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled “In Scattered Formation: Displacement, Alignment and the German-Jewish Diaspora.” This study traces the emergence of a transnational diasporic network of Jewish refugees...
Yosef Rosen 
Anna Elena Torres 