2003-2004 Program
PRESCRIPTIVE TRADITIONS AND LIVED EXPERIENCE
IN THE JEWISH RELIGION:
HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Name
  Area of Research

Ra’anan Abusch
University of Minnesota


Anthropological Approaches to the Problem of Heterogeneity in Hekhalot Literature

Dan Ben-Amos
University of Pennsylvania
Charles W. and Sally Rothfeld Fellowship

Elijah the Prophet: Historic Symbolic Analysis
     

Menahem Ben-Sasson (F)
Hebrew University
Herbert and Ellie Katz Distinguished
Fellowship


Ceremony and Life of Oriental Jewry: 9th – 13th Centuries

     

Yoram Bilu (S)
Hebrew University
Maurice Amado Foundation Fellowship


Shrine and Pilgrimage in Anthropological and Historical Perspectives: The Cult of Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yohai
     

Yossi Chajes
University of Haifa
Betty and Morris Shuch Term Fellowship


The Voice of a Woman: A History of Jewish Women’s Spirituality
     

Tamar El-Or (F)
Hebrew University
Louis and Bessie Stein Term Fellowship

  Reserved Seats: Ushering Mizrahi Women to their Sephardi Location; Gender, Religion and Literacy Among the Mizrahi-Sephardi Community
     

Talya Fishman
University of Pennsylvania
Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship

  Custom’s Emergence as a Competitor to Law: Reconstructing a Culture Revolution of Medieval Ashkenaz
     

Harvey Goldberg (F)
Hebrew University
Ruth Meltzer Distinguished Fellowship

  Jewish Studies and the Anthropology of Disciplines: Anthropological Studies of Muslim Societies
     

Sylvie Goldberg (F)
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale, France
Michael R. Steinhardt Term Fellowship


The Sacred and the Profane: Historicity and Temporality in the Jewish Mind
     

Ephraim Kanarfogel
Yeshiva University

  Dreams as a Determinant of Jewish Law and Practice in Northern Europe During the High Middle Ages
     
Tamar Katriel (S)
University of Haifa
Ruth Meltzer Distinguished Fellowship
  The Rhetoric of Rescue: Salvage Immigration Narratives
in Israeli Civil Religion
     

Oren Kosansky
Lawrence University

  Saint Pilgrimage as Torah Practice in Jewish Morocco
     
Jack Kugelmass (F)
Arizona State University
Nancy S. and Laurence E. Glick Teaching Fellowship

The Rites of the Tribe: Ethnographic Essays on the Public Culture of American Jews
     
Ora Limor (S)
The Open University, Israel
Herbert and Ellie Katz Distinguished
Fellowship

Messianic Geography: The Mount of Olives in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Tradition
     
Riv-Ellen Prell
University of Minnesota
Ella Darivoff Term Fellowship

American Jewish Youth Culture and the Emergence of a New Judaism, 1945-1970
     
Lucia Raspe (S)
Goethe University, Germany
Louis and Bessie Stein Term Fellowship
  The Role of Graves of Sainted Individuals in the Religious Lives of Individual and Community
     
Elchanan Reiner (S)
Tel Aviv University
Rose and Henry Zifkin Teaching
Fellowship

Shrine and Pilgrimage in Historical and Anthropological Perspectives: The Cult of Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yohai
     
Marina Rustow (F)
Emory University
Michael R. Steinhardt Term Fellowship
  Jewish Sectarianism in the Medieval Islamic Mediterranean: A Social Historical Approach
     
Shalom Sabar
Hebrew University
Erika A. Strauss Teaching Fellowship
  ‘Transitional Objects’: Material Culture and Rituals in Jewish Life and Year Cycles
     
Andrea Schatz
University of Duisburg, Germany
Martin Gruss Fellowship
  Translating the Orient: Cultural Difference and Diaspora in the 18th Century
     
Michael Swartz
Ohio State University
Moses Aaron Dropsie Term Fellowship
  Ritual Theory in Judaism: Ancient and Modern
     
Chava Weissler (F)
Lehigh University
Charles W. and Sally Rothfeld Fellowship
  The ‘Jewish Renewal’ Movement in the American Spiritual Marketplace
 
SHORT-TERM FELLOWS
Dmitrii Belkin (November)
University of Tubingen
  Lucette Valensi (November)
L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Robert Bonfil (January)
Hebrew University
  Nathan Wachtel (April)
College of France
Galit Hasan-Rokem (February)
Hebrew University
   
 
ADJUNCT FELLOWS
Albert Baumgarten Jodi Magness
Sarah Benor Tessa Rajak
Elisheva Carlebach Esther Romeyn
Samuel Heilman Jane Rothstein
Elliott Horowitz Jonathan Schorsch
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Israel Yuval