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Photos from Melton Center programs
August 12, 2020

2020 Annual Report

Our latest annual report recaps community and campus programs, lectures, conferences, symposia, faculty accomplishments, and student awards in 2019 and 2020.

Robert Gleisser
June 24, 2020

OSU Grad Virtually Consecrated as Rabbi

Jewish Studies alum (2014) Rob Gleisser was virtually consecrated on May 23 by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. Rob is from Beachwood, Ohio. His first position was…

Photo of Professor Ori Yehudai
June 11, 2020

Welcome Ori Yehudai, Assistant Professor of History and The Saul and Sonia Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies

Professor Ori Yehudai joined the faculty of the Department of History at Ohio State in Fall, 2019. His research focuses on modern Jewish history with a special emphasis on Zionism and the State of…

Photo of Sonia Gollance
June 11, 2020

Welcome Sonia Gollance, Visiting Assistant Professor of Yiddish

Sonia Gollance joined Ohio State's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in Fall, 2019 as the director of Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies. She has already developed a minor program that…

Joseph Galron-Goldschläger, Associate Professor, Jewish studies library
May 2, 2019

GALRON-GOLDSCHLÄGER AWARDED MENA FULBRIGHT AWARD

Joseph Galron-Goldschläger, associate professor of University Libraries, is the recipient of the prestigious 2019 Middle East and North Africa Fulbright Award to Israel. Galron-Goldschläger will be…