Centre for Jewish Studies

Members of the Centre for Jewish Studies

Chair

Dr Yair Wallach

Tamar Drukker

Member

Modern Hebrew; medieval literature

Tel: 020 7898 4347
Email: td4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 446

Catherine Hezser

Member

Judaism in Hellenistic and Roman times; rabbinic literature; social history of Jews in late antiquity; American Jewish history and literature, Jewish identity, gender studies

Tel: 020 7898 4633
Email: ch12@soas.ac.uk
Room: 335
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10-11am & Thursdays 10-11am

My research continued my interest in cultural memory through Iranian Jewish literature. The literary production of exiled Iranian Jewish women appears in the anthology I edited: If Salt has Memory (Five Leaves: 2008).