Spotlights
Jocelyn Krieger, a 2022 Penn State Alumna with majors in History and Economics and minors in Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies reflects on her year of service as the 2022 recipient of the Rhea S. Schwartz Fellowship.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State Schreyer Honors College named Zaryab Iqbal as its new associate dean on Jan. 3.
Professor Eliyana Adler's book, Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union, received the Yad Vashem International Book Prize in Holocaust Research and the Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award in Polish-Jewish Studies.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A Penn State faculty member who has built an international reputation for her work in “peace communication” was elected vice president of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS), the North African studies association.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Lior Sternfeld, associate professor of history and Jewish studies, and Michelle Campos, associate professor of Jewish studies and history, have received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a project
History alumnus Jason Kogan has made substantial gifts to support the new Palmer Museum of Art, the Jewish Studies program and more
We wanted to take a moment to highlight Professor Silverman!
Willa Z. Silverman, Malvin E. and Lea P. Bank Professor of French and Jewish Studies is retiring after 33 years at Penn State.
Penn State University Libraries’ Open Publishing unit recently launched the "Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union Bibliography" to accompany a new book by Eliyana Adler, Penn State associate professor of history
A growing cohort of scholars in Middle Eastern studies is garnering international recognition
Tobias Brinkmann, head of the Jewish Studies program in Penn State's College of the Liberal Arts, and the Malvin E. and Lea P. Bank Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History, has been selected as a spring 2021 fellow by the Herbert D. Katz C
