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Name | Field of Interest | Contact |
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Seth AnziskaMohamed S. Farsi-Lindenbaum Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations | Modern Middle Eastern History Israel and Palestine | 020 7679 2766 |
Sima BeeriLecturer (Teaching) in Yiddish | Yiddish pedagogy Jewish traditional food | |
Michael BerkowitzProfessor of Modern Jewish History | German Jewry English-speaking Jewry Holocaust Studies Jews in science and technology | 020 7679 2814 |
Alinda DamsmaDeputy Head of Department Lecturer (Teaching) in Biblical Hebrew | Witchcraft in biblical and post-biblical times Aramaic dialectology | a.damsma@ucl.ac.uk |
Mark GellerJewish Chronicle Professor of Jewish Studies | Ancient Babylonian medicine Syriac medicine Talmud medicine | |
Shirli GilbertProfessor of Modern Jewish History | Jews in South Africa Holocaust memory | shirli.gilbert@ucl.ac.uk |
Sonia GollanceLecturer in Yiddish | Modern Jewish literature Gender and Yiddish theatre | s.gollance@ucl.ac.uk |
François GuesnetProfessor of Modern Jewish History | Modern Jewish History Polish Jewish History Eastern Europe | 020 7679 3720 |
Lily KahnProfessor of Hebrew & Jewish Languages and Head of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies | Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish Jewish languages Contemporary Ashkenazic Hebrew Hebrew in Eastern Europe Multilingualism in Hasidic communities | 020 7679 3171 |
Neill LocheryProfessor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies | Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies | 020 7679 3028 |
Tali LoewenthalLecturer (Teaching) | Hasidism and modernity Jewish Mysticism Orthodoxy/Gender in Orthodoxy | 020 7679 3588 |
Tamara NovisLecturer (Teaching) in Modern Hebrew | Modern Hebrew | t.novis@ucl.ac.uk |
Shoshana SharpeLecturer (Teaching) in Modern Hebrew | Modern Hebrew | 020 7679 2420 |
Sacha SternProfessor of Rabbinic Judaism | Jewish history in Antiquity Calendars and time Rabbinic literature Qaraites and Rabbanites | 020 7679 0483
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Additional Associates
| Name | Field of Interest | Contact |
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Helen BeerBen Zion Margulies Lecturer Emeritus in Yiddish | Yiddish language, literature, culture | h.beer@ucl.ac.uk |
Simo MuirHonorary Research Associate | Yiddish culture during and after Shoah, Jewish history in Finland, Postwar politics of memory | s.muir@ucl.ac.uk |
Hilary PomeroyLecturer Emeritus | ||
Tsila RatnerLecturer Emeritus in Modern Hebrew Literature | Modern Hebrew literature, Women’s writing, Gender studies | |
Willem SmelikProfessor Emeritus of Hebrew and Aramaic | Aramaic Language and Literature, Hebrew Bible (esp. Former Prophets), Classical Rabbinic Literature, textual transmission | 020 7679 3590 |
Nadia VidroResearch Staff | Medieval Jewish intellectual and social history, Calendars, Jewish manuscripts | n.vidro@ucl.ac.uk |
Sonya YampolskayaResearch Staff | Hebrew language (Maskilic and premodern period), Yiddish language (Yiddish dialects and Hasidic Yiddish) | s.yampolskaya@ucl.ac.uk |
Carlos Yebra LópezUKRI Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ladino Lecturer (Teaching) Ladino | Contemporary Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Digital revitalisation | carlos.yebra.lopez@ucl.ac.uk |
In Memoriam
Ada Rapoport-AlbertEmeritus Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Head of Department |
Gillian GreenbergHonorary Research Associate and Lecturer in Syriac |