Department of Religious Studies
Faculty
Alexander Orbach
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1975
2606 Cathedral of Learning
412.624.2279
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Fields
Modern Jewish politics, Diaspora studies, dual loyalty
Teaching
Modern Israel, Holocaust, After the Holocaust, Russian Jewry, Israel: State and Society, Approaches to Antisemitism, Modern Jewry, and graduate seminars on historiography, modern Jewish thought, modern Judaism
Selected Publications
New Voices of Russian Jewry: A Study of the Russian-Jewish Press of Odessa in the Era of the Great Reforms, 1860-1871, Brill, 1980
"Between Liberal Integrationists and Political Segregationists: the Zionism of Asher Ginsberg (1889-1907)," Studia Judaica VI (1997) [Cluj-Napoca]
"Historical Approaches to the Israel/Arab Dispute: The Search for a Two-State Solution; Jewish Perspectives," in A Two-State Solution to the Arab Israeli Conflict, edited by Baruch Fischhoff, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1993
"The Modern Character of Nineteenth Century Russian Antisemitism," in Antisemitism in Times of Crisis, edited by Sander Gilman and Steven Katz, New York University Press, 1991
Current Projects
The theme of dual loyalty, public responses of Iliya Ehrenburg and Alfred Lilienthal to the emergence of the State of Israel (1948) within the context of the Cold War and their identities as Soviet and American Jews, respectively
University Affiliations
Secondary appointment in the Department of History, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies, and core faculty member of the European Studies Center and the Center for Russian and East European Studies of the University Center for International Studies