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Adam Rubin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Jewish History
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Areas of Expertise
Professor Adam Rubin teaches courses on Jewish history, literature, and politics at HUC and the University of Southern California. His scholarship focuses on Hebrew and Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe and pre-State Palestine during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is currently writing a book on the Jewish community in Palestine during the period of the British Mandate entitled Between Sacred and Profane: Judaism, Hebrew Culture and the Sacralization of the Zionist Project.
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (1999)
Areas of Interest
- History, Collective Memory, and National Mythology: Historical Revisionism in Israel
- The Cutest Shtetl We Never Had: Eastern Europe and American Jewish Nostalgia for "The Old Country"
- Judaism in Yiddish: The Relationship between Jewish Religious Tradition and Secular Yiddish Culture
- Mameh Loshn or Leshon Ha-'Em? The Debate Between Hebrew and Yiddish before (and after) the Second World War
- Not Your Parents' Jewish State: Contemporary Social, Cultural and Religious Trends and Controversies in Israel
- Between Love and Alienation: American Jews and their Ambivalent Relationship with Israel
- Radicalism in a Jewish Key: The Jewish Labor Movement
Publications
- "'Like A Necklace of Black Pearls Whose String Has Snapped': Bialik's 'Aron hasefarim' and the Sacralization of Zionism." Forthcoming, in Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History (Vol 28, No. 3, Fall 2008)
- "'How Will We Make Them into a Nation?': The Politics of Homogeneity in the Zionist Movement, 1933-1939." Forthcoming, in The Jewish Quarterly Review (2008/2009)
- "Hebrew Folklore and the Problem of Exile." Modern Judaism (Vol. 25, No. 1, Feb. 2005)
- "Jewish Nationalism and the Encyclopedic Imagination." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Vol. 3, No. 3, Nov. 2004)
- "A Nation Like All Other Nations: Historical Revisionism and the Normalization of Israel." The
- Jewish Book Annual, 1997-1999. (New York, 2001)
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (1999)
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