Jewish Studies Program at Syracuse University

05/16/2024

The Jewish Studies Program at Syracuse University is pleased to welcome Dr. Britt Tevis to the Department of History as the Phyllis Backer Chair in Jewish Studies.

A historian of American Jews, Dr. Tevis completed her PhD dissertation in 2016 at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Dr. Tevis is currently revising her book manuscript, _May It Displease the Court: Jewish Lawyers and the Democratization of American Law_. This study analyzes how Jewish lawyers working between the 1890s and 1930s challenged and consequently reshaped U.S. legal norms. In addition to the monograph, she has recently completed _Sanctioned Bigotry: A Documentary Reader of Antisemitism in the United States_.

04/22/2024

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02/09/2021

First day teaching Shoah: Responding to the Holocaust. The last time I taught this class was in 2018. This year, a very diverse group of students. The students were unclear about and wanted to talk…

11/13/2020

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02/25/2020

Bibliophiles can find more images of this copy of the American first edition here. “THE PLAGUE” by Albert Camus with un-clipped dust jacket. 1948 1st American Edition (stated), 1st Prin…

09/03/2019

Assistant Professor: Judaism The Department of Religion and the Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY) invite applications for the Phyllis …

01/15/2019

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01/13/2019

About universalism and particularism in the American synagogue, in-marriage and out-marriage, open space and closed space, technology and prayer, ethnicity and race, religion and affect, Israel an…

12/25/2018

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11/23/2018

Muslim and Jew: Origins, Growth, Resentment seeks to show how and why Islam and Judaism have been involved in political and theological self-definitions using the other since the seventh century. This short volume provides a historical and comparative survey of how each religion has thought about...

11/01/2018

Pulling white nationalists' fear of migrants into the mainstream also stirs hatred of Jews.