Executive Committee

Shaye J.D. Cohen, Director
Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Rachel Greenblatt
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Jay M. Harris
Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Miri Kubovy
Professor of the Practice of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Jon D. Levenson
Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies
Divinity School

Peter Machinist
Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Avi Matalon
Assistant Professor
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Jonathan W. Schofer
Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethics
Harvard Divinity School

Bernard Septimus
Jacob E. Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Ruth R. Wisse
Professor of Yiddish Literature and of Comparative Literature
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Visiting Professors

Jeff Gurock
Joseph Engel Visiting Professor in American Jewish History
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Fall 2007

Steven Zipperstein
Weinstock Visiting Professor of Jewish History
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Fall 2007

Other Faculty in Jewish Studies

Irit Aharony
Preceptor in Modern Hebrew
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Anna Grinfeld
Preceptor in Modern Hebrew
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Jo Ann Hackett
Professor of the Practice of Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic Epigraphy
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Yuri Vedenyapin
Preceptor in Yiddish
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations