Israel Studies postdoctoral fellow Maayan Hillel's research on leisure culture in mandatory Palestine was featured in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz
December 23, 2019
2019 News
December
September
The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies invites applications for a faculty position in the field of Israel Studies
September 24, 2019
Students travel to Israel on the 2019 Global Engineering Trek
September 22, 2019
July
Tova Markenson named recipient of 2019-2020 Crown Graduate Fellowship
July 2, 2019
June
Alexander Oltarsh wins the Jill Stacey Harris Undergraduate Essay Prize
June 7, 2019
May
Israel Studies Research Grants awarded for 2019
May 14, 2019
Researchers proposed solutions to drought and water insecurity in Israel and the Middle East at the Fourth Annual Water Symposium
May 6, 2019
April
Congratulations to Professor Danny M. Cohen, one of five Northwestern faculty members recently honored with the 2019 Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence Award
April 30, 2019
Video of author Nicole Krauss in conversation with Professor Claire Sufrin at our recent Crown Speaker Series event
April 29, 2019
Tova Markenson named a finalist for a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by the Association for Jewish Studies
April 1, 2019
March
Watch our recent panel discussion: “Israel at a Crossroads? Electoral Politics in a Divided Nation”
March 3, 2019
January
Grace Overbeke wins the Mark and Ruth Luckens International Prize in Jewish Thought and Culture
January 10, 2019
Professor Barry Wimpfheimer’s book THE TALMUD: A BIOGRAPHY has won a 2018 National Jewish Book Award! Congratulations, Barry Wimpfheimer!
January 9, 2019 – from Jewish Book Council
Podcast Interview with Sara Hirschhorn
January 6, 2019 – from Jewish History Matters
In the latest episode of Jewish History Matters, an interview-based podcast for new research in Jewish Studies, Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, the Visiting Assistant Professor for Israel Studies, discusses her book City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement (Harvard University Press, 2017), the recent winner of the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature Choice Award and finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award.
Northwestern University was well-represented at the annual meeting of the Association of Jewish Studies on December 16-18, 2018 in Boston
January 2, 2019
Israel Studies Research Grants Available
January 1, 2019