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Michal Friedman

Affiliated Faculty
Assistant Teaching Professor & Jack Buncher Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of History

Education

Bio

Michal Friedman is the The Jack Buncher Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies. She specializes in Jewish Diasporic history, especially that of Sephardi and Spanish speaking Jewish communities, and in Spanish history and culture. Her research and teaching focus on the history of the place and interactions of ethnic and religious minorities in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, as well as conceptions of diaspora and nationhood. Born in Israel and raised in Tel Aviv and New York City, she completed university studies in the U.S. and Spain and received her Ph.D. in Jewish history at Columbia University. Prior to becoming a faculty member at Â鶹´å she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and at The Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford.