The history of Jewish mysticism and of the Kabbalah are central to Lawrence Fine's work.

Karen Remmler's interests include the memory of the Holocaust in film and literature and the politics of memory and space in present-day Berlin.

Donald Weber's most recent book explores the ways modern Jewish writers and makers of popular culture responded to the challenge of adjusting to America.

"One of the best parts of my research is going to the British Library, pulling out an eighth-century manuscript written on cowhide, and realizing you are literally the first person to read it in 1,000 years," notes Michael Penn.