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Professor Deena Aranoff

BA Barnard University
PhD Columbia University

Kevah Group Topics: Topics in Jewish Thought, Medieval Codes, Jewish Mindfulness

Professor Deena Aranoff is an assistant professor of Medieval Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She is also affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Aranoff teaches courses on Jewish society and culture in the medieval and early-modern European context. Her interests include rabbinic literature, medieval patterns of Jewish thought and the broader question of continuity and change in Jewish history. She completed her Ph.D. in 2006 in the department of history at Columbia University with a dissertation titled "In Pursuit of the Holy Tongue: Jewish Conceptions of Hebrew in the Sixteenth Century." She is also a certified yoga teacher.