Faculty Publications

IPLA2-VIA is required for healthy aging of neurons, muscle, and the female germline in Drosophila melanogaster.

Steinhauer, Josefa; Banerjee, Surya Jyoti; Schonbrun, Adina; Eizadshenass, Sogol; Benji, Shimshon; Cantor, Yaakov Tzvi; Eliach, Liam; Lubin, Matthew; Narrowe, Zev; Purow, Jeremy; Shulman, Benjamin; Wiener, Leib (PLOS: Public Library of Science, 2021-07-10)

Neurodegenerative disease (ND) is a growing health burden worldwide, but its causes and treatments remain elusive. Although most cases of ND are sporadic, rare familial cases have been attributed to single genes, which ...

The limits of tolerance: Jews, the Enlightenment, and the fear of premature burial

Freedman, Jeffrey (Yeshiva University, 2017)

ln 1798, a little-known German journal, the Schlesische Provinzialblätter, published a report about a case of narrowly averted tragedy. It concerned a young Jewish boy in Breslau who had been pronounced dead 11 November ...

The dangers within: Fears of imprisonment in enlightenment France

Freedman, Jeffrey (Yeshiva University, 2021)

The histonan Jean Defumeau begins his classic study or fear in late-medieval and early modem Europe by citing Montaigne's description of arriving after nightfall in the town of Augsburg in 1580. To enter the town, Montaigne ...

When history mattered

Stenhouse, William (Yeshiva University, 2023-05)

When we consider some of the contributions that historians claimed to make to the modern state, it is not hard to see why de la Ruelle's attack on the historical profession might be read as satirical. For King Henri III ...

Emotion, Gender, and Greco-Roman Virtue in Joseph and Aseneth.

Mermelstein, Ari (Brill Academic Publishers, 2017)

Anger, courage, and philanthropia—three important elements of Greco-Roman civic life—figure prominently in the book of Joseph and Aseneth and help us uncover the book’s message. One view within Greco-Roman culture valorized ...

Jacob, Prayer of.

Mermelstein, Ari (De Gruyter, 2015)

Happiness. Judaism. Rabbinic Judaism.

Mermelstein, Ari (De Gruyter, 2015)

Gratitude and Ingratitude. Judaism.

Mermelstein, Ari (De Gruyter, 2015)

When History Repeats Itself: The Theological Significance of the Abrahamic Covenant in Early Jewish Writings.

Mermelstein, Ari (SAGE Publications, 2017)

Alongside ‘Mosaic discourse’, Second Temple period authors increasingly looked to Abraham as a source of instruction and authority. This article focuses on the growing importance of the Abrahamic covenant through the lens ...