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Name

FieldÌýof Interest

Contact

Mohamed S. Farsi-LindenbaumÌýAssociate Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations

Modern Middle Eastern History

Israel and Palestine

020 7679 2766

s.anziska@ucl.ac.ukÌý

Sima Beeri

Lecturer (Teaching)Ìýin Yiddish

Yiddish pedagogy

Jewish traditional food

s.beeri@ucl.ac.uk

Professor of Modern Jewish History

German Jewry

English-speaking Jewry

Holocaust Studies

Jews in science and technology

020 7679 2814

m.berkowitz@ucl.ac.uk

Deputy Head of Department

Lecturer (Teaching)Ìýin Biblical Hebrew

Witchcraft in biblical and post-biblical times

Aramaic dialectology
a.damsma@ucl.ac.uk

Jewish Chronicle Professor of Jewish Studies

Ancient Babylonian medicine

Syriac medicine

Talmud medicine

m.geller@ucl.ac.uk

Professor of Modern Jewish History

Jews in South Africa

Holocaust memory
shirli.gilbert@ucl.ac.uk

Lecturer in Yiddish

Modern Jewish literature

Gender and Yiddish theatre

s.gollance@ucl.ac.uk

Professor ofÌýModern Jewish History

Modern Jewish History

Polish Jewish History

Eastern Europe

020 7679 3720

f.guesnet@ucl.ac.uk

Professor ofÌýHebrew & Jewish LanguagesÌýand 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

l.kahn@ucl.ac.uk

Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies

Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies

020 7679 3028Ìý

n.f.lochery@ucl.ac.uk

LecturerÌý(Teaching)Ìý

Hasidism and modernity

Jewish Mysticism

Orthodoxy/Gender in Orthodoxy

020 7679 3588

n.loewenthal@ucl.ac.uk

Tamara Novis

Lecturer (Teaching) in Modern Hebrew

Modern Hebrewt.novis@ucl.ac.uk

Shoshana Sharpe

LecturerÌý(Teaching)Ìýin Modern Hebrew

Modern Hebrew

020 7679 2420

shoshana.sharpe@ucl.ac.uk

Professor of Rabbinic Judaism

Jewish history in Antiquity

Calendars and time

Rabbinic literature

Qaraites and Rabbanites

020 7679 0483

sacha.stern@ucl.ac.uk

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Additional Associates

NameField of InterestContact

Ben Zion Margulies LecturerÌýEmeritus in Yiddish

Yiddish language, literature, cultureh.beer@ucl.ac.uk

Honorary Research Associate

Yiddish culture during and after Shoah,ÌýJewish history in Finland,ÌýPostwar politics of memorys.muir@ucl.ac.uk

Hilary Pomeroy

LecturerÌýEmeritus

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Tsila Ratner

LecturerÌýEmeritus in Modern Hebrew Literature

Modern Hebrew literature, Women’s writing, Gender studies

t.ratner@ucl.ac.uk

Willem Smelik

Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Aramaic

Aramaic Language and Literature, Hebrew Bible (esp. Former Prophets), Classical Rabbinic Literature, textual transmission

020 7679 3590

willem.smelik@ucl.ac.uk

Research Staff

Medieval Jewish intellectual and social history, Calendars, Jewish manuscriptsn.vidro@ucl.ac.uk

Research Staff

Hebrew language (Maskilic and premodern period), Yiddish language (Yiddish dialects and Hasidic Yiddish)s.yampolskaya@ucl.ac.uk

UKRI Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ladino

LecturerÌý(Teaching) Ladino

Contemporary Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)

Digital revitalisation

carlos.yebra.lopez@ucl.ac.uk

In Memoriam

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Ada Rapoport-Albert

Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Head of Department

Gillian Greenberg

Honorary Research Associate and Lecturer in Syriac