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Dr. Rakhmiel Peltz

     
    Rakhmiel Peltz, Ph.D.
    Professor of Sociolinguistics
    Director of Judaic Studies Programs
       
    Office: Library 331
    Phone: (215) 895-1499
    Email: rakhmiel.peltz @ drexel.edu
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CURRENT AREAS OF RESEARCH
  • Judaic Studies
  • Yiddish Culture and Linguistics
  • Ethnography of Communication
  • Immigrant Cultural Studies

 
 
RESEARCH PROJECTS
  • 2005 Research Fellowship - Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United Holocaust Memorial Museum.

 
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  • 2006 Author - The History of Yiddish Studies: Take Notice!, in Language, Loyalty, Continuity and Change. Multilingual Matters.
  • 2005 Author - “Elye Spivak” and “Mordkhe Veynger”, in Encyclopedia Judaica. Accepted for publication in Jerusalem. In press.
  • 2003 Author - Living Jewish History: An Intergenerational Conversation, in Ideas for Intergenerational Living; 3, 2003.
  • 1998 Author - From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia. Stanford University Press

 





Areas of Study:
Anthropology
BA | Minor

Communication
MS | BA | BS | Minor

Criminal Justice
BS | Minor

Urban Environmental Policy
MS | BS | Minor

Modern Languages
Minor

Sociology
BA | Minor

Culture & Communication
Ph.D.


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