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2024 Annual Report
2024 Annual Report
In this issue
Dear Friends
Dear FRIENDS,This was a deeply difficult year, as I know it has been for many of you. Colleagues in the Melton Center and on campus have been…
Student Awards
The Emily and George Severinghaus Beck Education Abroad Scholarship The Emily and George Severinghaus Beck scholarship is for students who wish to study Yiddish in the United States and abroad…
2024 Marks the 20th Anniversary of the Ellen E. and Victor J. Cohn Education Abroad Scholarship Fund for Study at the Hebrew University
By supporting study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Cohn scholarship opens students' worlds by introducing source materials, environments, and experiences that they could not access…
Join our community text study program
Join our advanced text study programThe Melton Center’s advanced text study program offers participants the opportunity to study Jewish topics from an academic perspective. The sessions, held twice a…
2023-2024 Programs
Columbus Premiere of Monument Michael Turner's grandmother. Photo: Michael Turner On Oct. 10, the Melton Center presented the documentary film…
Co-sponsored Programs
Violence in Israel and Gaza– What’s Going On?In October, 2023, a panel of scholars from Ohio State participated in a webinar for undergraduate students that offered background and perspectives on the…
New Faculty
Harriet Fertik is an assistant professor in the Department of Classics and an affiliate of the Department of Comparative Studies, the Melton Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Near…
Library News
Ohio State has one of the best Judaica collections in the country. It is growing constantly, thanks to the efforts of our Jewish studies librarian Joseph…
Melton Graduate Fellows News
Adam Abate, the George M. and Renée K. Levine Graduate Fellow, 2023 Adam Abate studied Judeo-Arabic and conducted research for his master’s…
Faculty News
Naomi Brenner, associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, used Ohio State’s Faculty Professional Leave to work on a new book on the rise of modern…
Faculty Retirements
Tamar Rudavsky Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in PhilosophyAfter 47 years with the university, Professor Rudavsky retired this year. She is one of the top scholars in the country on…
Alumni News
Jonathan Branfman ‘19 PhD (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) published the monograph Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy with NYU Press (…
Alumni Spotlight
Becca Sigal ‘18 (Jewish studies, minors in Jewish oral history and nonprofit studies)Becca is the community research and grants management administrator at The Columbus Foundation, a large…