Center for Jewish Studies Emeritus and Memorial Faculty

Hy Berman

Department association: History

Research Interests:

American Jewish labor history
Yiddish radical movement

Courses Taught

Minnesota History
U.S. Labor History

Jonathan Paradise

Department association: Classical and Near Eastern Studies

Research interests: Since my retirement I have devoted most of my time to developing multimedia materials for teaching Hebrew.

Courses Taught:

Akkadian Language and Literature
North-West Semitic Inscriptions
Biblical Studies
All levels of Hebrew Language
The Modern Hebrew Short Story,
Modern Hebrew Poetry
Comparative Semitic Grammar

Barbara Weissberger

Department Association: Spanish and Portuguese Studies

General Area: Late Medieval/Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture

Areas of interest:

Converso identity
Gender and sexuality in anti-semitic discourse
Jewish pseudohistory
Female sovereignty (Queen Isabel I)
Jews and conversos in proto-national ideology

Jack Zipes

Department Association: German

Research Interests:

German-Jewish Studies
Twentieth-century Jewish literature and culture in Germany
European folklore
Jewish literature in the US and UK

Courses:

Jewish Writers in Germany, Central Europe, and America
The Image of the Jew in Film
The Frankfurt School

Stephen Feinstein

Feinstein died of an aneurysm on March 4, 2008. A blog has been set up for people to express their feeling on the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Website

Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-River Falls (History)

Departmental Affiliation: Department of History

Statement of Interests

My prime research focus is on artistic responses to the Holocaust and genocide. My background is in Russian History and I have taught courses on Modern Jewish History, the History of Anti-Semitism, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Courses