Faculty

Zev Bar-Lev - Hebrew
office: BA-319
phone: (619) 594-6389
email: Zev.bar-Lev@sdsu.edu

Lawrence Baron -  Nasatir Professor of Modern Jewish History
Laurie Baron was profiled in Fifty Key Thinks on the Holocaust and Genocide (Routledge: 2010).

His article on Holocaust Cinema was published in The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. (Oxford UP: 2011).

phone: (619) 594-5338
email: lbaron@mail.sdsu.edu

June S Cummins-Lewis - American Jewish Literature
She has authored “Where in America Are You, God??:Judy Blume, Margaret Simon, and American National Identity" which will be published this February in The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature, eds. Julia Mickenberg and Lynne Vallone.

phone: (619) 594-5442
email: jcummins@mail.sdsu.edu

Risa Levitt-Kohn - Bible and Judaism, Director of Jewish Studies

office: AH-4104
phone: (619) 594-5327
email: rkohn@mail.sdsu.edu

Oren Meyers - Media, the Holocaust, and Israel
He has delivered a lecture on “Memory in Journalism and the Memory of Journalism: Israeli Journalists and the Critical Reading of the National Past” for the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USC.

He co-authored “Communicating Critique: Towards a Conceptualization of Journalistic Criticism. Communication, Culture and Critique, 377-395.

Alana Shuster - Hebrew
phone: (619) 594-6389
email: hebrew4all@aol.com

Yale Strom - Klezmer and Jewish Heritage
Yale Strom's 12th book "DAVE TARRAS: THE KING OF KLEZMER" was published by Or-Tav Music Publishers October 2010. This is the first biography on the great klezmer clarinetist who was known as the "Benny Goodman" of klezmer.

Yale Strom co-wrote (Elizabeth Schwartz, Ellen Kushner) the radio drama "THE WITCHES OF LUBLIN" starring Tovah Feldschuh. It was broadcasted throughout the U.S. on various NPR affiliates in spring 2011.