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CJS Faculty New Publications, 2024-2025

In 2024-2025, CJS-affiliated faculty published books, essays and articles in peer-reviewed and public journals, magazines, and newspapers, and curated four exhibits. Below is the summary.

Orit Avishai

  • Articles and essays:
    • “Making Unlikely Queer Worlds: LG Orthodox Jews in Israel. Queer and Trans Studies in Religion.” QTR: Queer and Trans Studies in Religion 1 (2024), 1-39.
    • With Jonathan Coley, Golshan Golriz, and Dawne Moon. “How LGBTQ+ People Are Creating Change in their Faith Communities.” Contexts. Feature article, Winter 2024 issue and podcast interview. 
    • “From a Theology of Transgression to a Theology of Tolerance: Jewish Law and the Question of LGBT Acceptance.” P. 125-142 in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender, and Sexuality, edited by Sonya Sharma, Dawn Llewellyn, and Sia Hawthorne. Bloomsbury.
    • Review of Religion and Broken Solidarities: Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism edited by Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo. Journal of Church and State.
    • “Mendacity as Blasphemy: Storytelling and the Making of Religious/ LGBTQ+ Jewish Identities.” In Blasphemous Art? Critique, Appropriation and Imagination of Religion and Gender in Arts and Popular Culture, edited by Mariecke van den Berg, Nella van den Brandt and Adriaan van Klinken . Routledge, 2024. 

Ayala Fader

  • Articles and essays:
    • “Illiberal Jewish-Christian Encounters at the Interstices of Gendered Wellness.” Material Religion 20, no. 5 (December 31, 2024): 401–3. doi:10.1080/17432200.2024.2425197.
    • With Michal Kravel-Tovi, Niko Besnier, Deborah Cameron, Omri Grinberg, Ben Kasstan, Tamar Katriel, Sam Shuman, and Shonna Trinch. “It Goes with(out) Saying: How Haredi Jews in Israel ‘Break the Silence’ of Sexual Violence.” Current Anthropology 65, no. 6 (December 1, 2024): 1028–59. doi:10.1086/733327.

Ethan Lieb

  • Book
    • Contracts: An Open-Access Casebook (2025) (with Matt Bodie, Guy Rub, Jake Linford, Pamela Bookman, & Tal Kastner), at contractscasebook.org 
  • Articles and essays:
    • “Contract as Vow or Oath,” 30 Legal Theory 22 (2024)
    • “Interpretive Divergence in the New York Court of Appeals,” 50 Journal of Legislation 387 (2024)
    • Proximate Cause in Contract? A Mistake New York Courts Can Avoid, 273 (93) NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL, May 15, 2025, at 4
    • For those of us with children who identify as trans, the political is personal, BOSTON GLOBE, December 22, 2024
    • The Hunter Biden Pardon Is Unconstitutional—and a Surprising Opportunity, BOSTON GLOBE, December 4, 2024

Daniel Soyer

  • Articles and essays
    • “Hometown Societies in the New World: Jewish Landsmanshaftn and Americanization,” History Now 71, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, summer 2024. 

Magda Teter

  • Book
    • Blood Libels, Hostile Archives: Reclaiming Interrupted Jewish Lives. Budapest and Vienna: Central European University Press, 2025 (a 20% discount with code AUP20 until June 30th at this website).
  • Articles and essays
    • “Jewish Middlemen, Archival Myopia,” The New York Review of Books, December 3, 2024 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/05/jewish-middlemen-archival-myopia-the-kings-of-algiers/
    • “Jews and Race in Early Modernity” in Routledge Resources Online – The Renaissance World (April 2025). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367347093-RERW245-1
    • “Past and Present: Modern Jewish Historiography, Premodern History, and the Politics of History” in A Jew in the Street: New Perspectives on European Jewish History edited by Nancy Sinkoff, Jonathan Karp, James Loeffler and Howard Lupovitch (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2024), 419-446.
    • “Delegated Governance: Rethinking the Idea of Premodern Jewish Autonomy.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 43, no. 1 (2025): 215-229.
  • Exhibits:
    • 2025, Exhibit: “COVID-19 Pandemic Five Years On: A Historical Perspective” (March-August 2025), co-curated with Miriam Krakowski FCRH’27 and Patricia Scully FCRH’25
    • 2025, Exhibit “Henna, Love, and Life: Jewish Life and Art in Siona Benjamin’s India” (January-May, 2025), co-curated with Amy Levine-Kennedy
    • 2024-2025, Exhibit: “Fordham’s Babel: An Exploration of World Languages in the Special Collections,” co-curated with Miriam Krakowski FCRH’27 and Gabriella DiMeglio
    • 2024, Exhibit: “Yearning To Breath: The Art of Siona Benjamin” (September-December, 2024), with Amy Levine-Kennedy