Revel Year In Review 2024-2025

YEAR IN REVIEW | BERNARD REVEL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES | SCHOLARSHIP • TORAH • WISDOM • THOUGHT

Of Note

A recording of Prof. Michael Schmidman ’s lecture from Revel’s conference commemorating Prof. Yitzchak Twersky was released by Tradition as a podcast. LISTEN HERE

Revel Profs. Steven Fine and Ronnie Perelis and Revel doctoral student Baruch-Lev Kelman participated in a fascinating YU archaeology summer trip which included Rome and Jerusalem. READ MORE Revel Prof. Elazar Hurvitz spoke about Rambam and Other Treasures, a talk about his Catalogue of the Cairo Genizah Fragments in the Westminster College Librar y.

Revel Ph.D. Rabbi Dr. Yosie Levine published a book, Hakham Tsevi Ashke- nazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate which won an AJS Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication award. SEE BOOK

Revel Prof. Jeffery Gurock interviewed Revel Board Member Leonard Grunstein about the book he co-authored, Because It’s Just and Right: The Untold Back-Story of the US Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel and Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem WATCH HERE

Prof. Ronnie Perelis was awarded a major grant from the National Endowment of Humanities along with his colleague Flora Cassen (Washington University, St. Louis) to translate the spiritual diary of Luis de Carvajal.

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