Session Chairs

Position: Aresty Visiting Scholar, Bildner Center
School: Rutgers University-NB
Justin Cammy is professor and chair of Jewish Studies and World Literatures at Smith College, where he teaches and researches Yiddish literature and the cultural history of Jewish Eastern Europe. In recent years he has held fellowships at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, the University of Michigan, and Yad Vashem. His critical edition and translation of Sutzkever's From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg was awarded the 2022 Leviant Prize in Yiddish Studies from the Modern Language Association.

Position: Distinguished Professor
School: Rutgers University-Newark
James Goodman is the author of essays, short stories, and three books, Stories of Scottsboro (1994), Blackout (2003), and But Where Is the Lamb? Imagining The Story of Abraham and Isaac (Schocken, 2013). He is currently completing two books, one of which is on the life and career of Sidney Poitier, for Significations, a series of books on canonical Black figures curated by Henry Louis Gates. Since 1997, he’s been at Rutgers Newark, where he is a Distinguished Professor of History and head of non-fiction in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Person Type: Co-organizers

Hilit Surowitz-Israel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Rutgers University. She is coeditor of Jews in the Americas, 1776-1826. She is currently working to complete her monograph, Americas Diasporas: The Creolization of Religion in the Colonial Atlantic World.
Person Type: Co-organizers

Cammy, Justin

	Bildner Center 12 College Ave New Brunswick, NJ 08901
P (848) 932-2033 E This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.