Juliette Rosenthal is a PhD student in the History department, studying Jews in the Eastern Mediterranean in the early 20th century. She is particularly interested in Jewish politics, journalism, and transnational movement.
B.A., Spanish Literature and Latin American Studies, Earlham College, Indiana MFA, Creative Writing, The New School, New York City PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature
A former Fulbright scholar to Argentina and National Yiddish Book Center translation fellow, Amanda Siegel focuses on modern Jewish literature of the Americas with an emphasis on Latin-American Yiddish literature and translation studies. She focuses on literature as a site of identity negotiation, especially as it relates to theories of translation that interrogate critical categories and expand...
Daniel Solomon was born and raised in New York, and received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard, where he wrote his senior thesis on Alain Finkielkraut and the new Jewish right in France. Solomon taught English in French high schools and universities before coming to Berkeley. He also previously worked as a political and communications consultant in Washington, D.C. and a journalist in New York.
Solomon’s interests include the history of Jewish communities in France and its empire, the politics of migration, shifts and developments on the French far-right, and the rise of...
AJ is a PhD candidate in the History Department. Her research interests include: modern Germany, European cultural and intellectual history, illiberal political movements and ideologies, mass violence and its aftermath, and anti-Semitism. Her dissertation, provisionally entitled “Nazis After Hitler: An Experiential History of SS Veterans in the Postwar World,” explores how former SS members recalibrated a sense of self and of history in the wake of the Third Reich’s collapse. AJ graduated with an M.A. in History from the University of Vienna in 2019, and a B.A. in History and English...
Alex Ullman is a PhD student in the English department studying 20th century global Anglophone literature. He is particularly interested in how sound and ethnicity meet in 20th century literature of the African and Jewish diasporas, specifically through the uses of dialect, translation, and music. He has also written on Jewish writing ranging from medieval piyutim to the work of contemporary Israeli author David Grossman.
B.A. International History, Irkutsk State University (2014) M.A. Historical Methods and Theory, European University at St. Petersburg (2016) M.Phil. History, European University Institute in Florence (2018) Ph.D. Student in Jewish History, UC Berkeley Valentina Viktorovskaia is a graduate student in the History Department studying comparative colonialism in the late Russian Empire and Mandatory Palestine. She is particularly interested in how Jews played as both subjects and agents of empire in various colonial contexts and how their relationships to both the colonized and colonizers...
BA, magna cum laude, Classics and Mathematics, Pomona College, 2011; BA, magna cum laude, Arabic Language and Literature, Portland State University, 2015; MA with distinction, Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, 2017; PhD student in Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
Madeline Wyse works on Rabbinic and Islamic legal literature, and particularly on the Talmud and uṣūl al-fiqh (often translated “Islamic legal theory”) as distinctive legal genres. She attends to how the texts of these corpora function as sites for working out hermeneutic,...
B.A. Literature and Sociology, Tel-Aviv University (magna cum laude, 2014)
M.A. Hebrew Literature, Tal-Aviv University (summa cum laude, 2016)
Ph.D. Student in Near Eastern Studies Department
Oren’s work is focused on 20th century and contemporary Hebrew literature and culture in Mandatory Palestine and the state of Israel. Within this frame, Oren’s work engages with question of agency, personal and national, and its relation to the enjoyment of reading; questions regarding the use of lyrical...