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The Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program

Dr. Martin Perlmutter, Director
College of Charleston    Charleston, SC 29424
Phone: (843) 953-5682   Fax: (843) 953-7624   E-mail: jwst@cofc.edu

Faculty

Richard Bodek, History
953-8030 bodekr@cofc.edu
An associate professor of history, Professor Bodek has been at the College of Charleston since 1990. He has studied or taken degrees at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Michigan, the University of Tübingen, and the Free University of Berlin. His research interests center on the cultural world of German Judaism from the end of the nineteenth century to the 1950s. At present he is working on a book tentatively titled, Germany in the German-Jewish Literary Imagination. Professor Bodek teaches several courses for the Jewish Studies Program, including Modern Jewish History, European Jewish History, and German-Jewish Culture.

John Huddlestun, Religious Studies
953-4996 huddlestunj@cofc.edu
Professor Huddlestun is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, having arrived at the College in 1996. His areas of specialization include Tanakh/Hebrew Bible, religion in ancient Israel and the ancient Near East, and classical Judaism. With a Ph.D. in biblical and ancient Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan (1996), he has done additional postgraduate work in Biblical/Modern Hebrew, Egyptology, and archaeology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The principal focus of his research is the possible cultural and literary connections between ancient Egypt and Israel. Prior to his present career in academia, Dr. Huddlestun worked as a professional musician; he holds a Bachelor's degree in Music History and Literature and Music Performance (Ohio State University).

Adam Mendelsohn, Jewish Studies
953-2036 mendelsohna@cofc.edu
Adam Mendelsohn received his Ph.D. in American Jewish history from Brandeis University in May 2008 and spent the past academic year as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Born and raised in South Africa, Adam originally became interested in American Jewish history at the University of Cape Town. Mendelsohn s research focuses on English-speaking Jewish communities in the United States and the British Empire over the past 200 years. He is a board member of the Southern Jewish Historical Society and edits its newsletter, The Rambler.

David Moscowitz, Communication
953-7017 moscowitzd@cofc.edu 
Professor Moscowitz studies contemporary Jewish identity and representation in popular culture from the perspective of cultural, rhetorical, and critical media studies.  He is particularly interested in tropes of assimilation, whiteness, gender and the body, and postmodern memory.  His current research, which has focused on performances of postassimilatory difference, heroism, postmodern blackface, and representations of “tough Jews,” reflects these interests.  Professor Moscowitz earned his B.A. in English and his Ph.D. in communication and culture at Indiana University, where he was honored with its Outstanding Associate Instructor Award.

Martin Perlmutter, Philosophy/Jewish Studies
953-7625 perlmutterm@cofc.edu
Dr. Perlmutter (B.A. City College of New York, Ph.D. University of Illinois), Professor of Philosophy, came to the College of Charleston in 1979 after appointments at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Tennessee in Nashville. He chaired the College's Philosophy Department for eight years and, in 1991, became director of the Yaschik/Arnold Program in Jewish Studies. His teaching interests include the philosophy of religion, medical ethics, and Jewish thought.

Theodore Rosengarten, History/Jewish Studies
tedrsc@aol.com
Theodore Rosengarten received his A.B. from Amherst College and Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University. While his primary field of research and writing is African-American history, he has been a student of the Holocaust for more than 50 years and teaches courses on the subject at the College of Charleston and the Honors College at the University of South Carolina. He also directs workshops for middle and high school teachers and leads semi-annual study-abroad trips to Poland and Germany.

Joshua Shanes, History/Jewish Studies
953-3929 shanesj@cofc.edu
Joshua Shanes received his B.A. from the University of Illinois in 1993, his Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin in 2002, and spent time in between studying in Israel. Professor Shanes's research interests focus on Central and East European Jewry in the 19th and 20th centuries, specifically turn-of-the-century Galicia and the rise of Zionism as a counter-movement to the traditional Jewish establishment.

Zipora Wagner, Hebrew
953-7585 wagnerz@cofc.edu
A young-at-heart Holocaust survivor, Tsipi Wagner has been teaching Hebrew and English as a second language for over  45 years. After a career of teaching in Israel, Tsipi taught Hebrew at Emory and Georgia State University for nine years.       At Georgia State, she established a new program in Modern and Biblical Hebrew. Attending pedagogical workshops in the United States and Israel on a regular basis, Tsipi is well-versed in the issues of teaching Modern Hebrew as a second language. Her objective is to employ her vast experience for our Hebrew program and help it develop to an advanced level   to include third and fourth years of study. She will be teaching a third year in the Fall. Tsipi also teaches courses on Israeli film. Her appointment at the College of Charleston reflects the College’s continued commitment to Hebrew instruction.

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