JUDAIC - Key Persons
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- Associate Research Scholar
Amit Gvaryahu, currently an Associate Research Scholar in the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University, is a cultural historian of ancient Judaism. He studies money and its significance in antiquity, mostly among ancient Jews, but also in other contexts. He also has side interests in Roman Law, Biblical interpretation, textual…
Asaf Gayer received his PhD in Bible studies from the University of Haifa in 2021. His dissertation, under the guidance of Professor Jonathan Ben-Dov, focuses on the wisdom composition Instruction, the most prominent representative of the Qumranic wisdom tradition. Combining digital material analysis with a literary philological inquiry into the metaphoric use of weights and measures, Asaf examined the interrelations of the Qumranic wisdom tradition with other sapiential compositions, as reflected in Instruction. Asaf collected and analysed the relevant literary sources which relates to the motif of measuring and weighing and explored the textual affinities between them. He then engaged in an exegesis of Instruction and examined its interaction with the literary tradition traced above. Finally, He investigated the motif in Greek thought and in Jewish-Hellenistic compositions, suggesting that in the late Hellenistic period the motif of measuring and weighing is a hybrid of Greek and Jewish conventions.
Asaf research focuses on the study of ancient Jewish manuscripts, mainly from the region of the Dead Sea. Emphasizing the material aspects, with the aid of digital tools and techniques, he experts in recreating the original formation of the manuscript, revealing previously unidentified joins, and producing new meanings of the reconstructed composition. His forthcoming Book - "Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case of 4Q418a," co-authored with Prof. Jonathan Ben-Dov and Dr. Eshbal Ratzon, draws attention to the various methodological challenges of the digital medium in the study of the DSS. It highlights the production and the development of new methodological methods for the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the presents new appropriate digital tools which strive to answer these challenges.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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Isaac (Yitz) Landes began his studies in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity subfield of the Religion Department in 2016. Prior to arriving at Princeton, Yitz completed a BA in Talmud and Halakha and Religion and an MA in Talmud and Halakha at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. While studying for his MA, Yitz participated in Hebrew University's Program for the Study of Late Antiquity and was a fellow in its Advanced School for The Study of the Humanities. His MA thesis, a study of a liturgical text that first took shape during Late Antiquity, dealt with Jewish approaches to ritual following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple. Yitz continues to be interested in the history of liturgy and ritual, and he has recently begun to work on the religious history of the Jews during the 6th-8th centuries.
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- Associate
- Associate Research Scholar
Iuliia Skubytska is an Associate Research Scholar in the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. She is a historian of the Soviet Union and Ukraine specializing in history of childhood, oral history, and public history. Skubytska received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018. Currently, she is working on a book titled "Artek: Ultimate Soviet Utopia," which analyzes the reshaping of the utopian imagination in the post-war USSR.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the French Legion of Honor
- Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of Religion
Ronald O. Perelman is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., a diversified holding company with interests in consumer products, defense, entertainment, financial services, education, biotechnology and gaming.
In 1995 Mr. Perelman made a major gift to Princeton University to create the Ronald O. Perelman Institute for Judaic Studies, a multidisciplinary program aiming to bring together leading scholars to examine Jewish history, religion, literature, thought, society, politics and cultures.
Mr. Perelman is well known as an innovative leader and generous supporter of many of the nation's most prominent cultural and educational institutions. Alongside his extensive business interests, Mr. Perelman's passion for leadership, entrepreneurship and finance has led to the creation of the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Business Innovation at Columbia Business School, and the Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics at his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Perelman serves on the boards of Carnegie Hall, the University of Pennsylvania, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, Columbia University, Ford's Theater, Tribeca Film Institute, and the Apollo Theater. He is a member of the French Legion of Honor.
Mr. Perelman holds a BS in Economics and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in New York City and is the father of eight children.
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- Managing Editor, Jewish Studies Quarterly
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- Professor of German and Comparative Literature
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- Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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