Director and Chair Leah Garrett is on sabbatical for the 2024-2025 academic year.
While she is on leave Schneur Zalman Newfield will be the interim Director of Jewish Studies.
Leah Garrett
The Larry A. and Klara Silverstein Chair in Jewish Studies and Director of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Author of six books on literature and history and numerous essays and articles, Dr. Leah Garrett, was named inaugural director of the Jewish Studies Center in 2018.
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Leah Garrett is the Larry and Klara Silverstein Chair in Jewish Studies and director of Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
She has published six books on literature and history including, X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two (Mariner Books (Harper Collins) and Chatto (Penguin)), 2022. Her fourth book, Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel, won the 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for modern Jewish history and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.
Dr. Garrett has also been the recipient of multiple fellowships including a Fulbright Fellowship to Tel Aviv University and a ACLS Junior Faculty Mellon.
Leah Garrett’s latest book is The Flight Nurses' War: The American Women Who Saved Thousands of Lives at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Her previous book, X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two, (Harper Collins, US and Penguin, UK, 2021) was covered by CNN, Time Magazine, the BBC, CSPAN and was the subject of major features in newspapers including The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New York Daily News, The Daily Mail, and the Times of Israel. The Daily Telegraph called it "a thrilling story, well-told" while the Times of London labelled it "absolutely brilliant…relights the lamps of the past so they glow anew". X Troop was a bestseller in the United Kingdom and was translated into multiple languages including Hebrew.
Publications
The Flight Nurses' War: The American Women Who Saved Thousands of Lives at Iwo Jima and Okinawa
X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two
Leah's talk about the book is available below.
Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel
A Knight at the Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz, and the Legacy of Der Tannhäuser
The Cross and Other Jewish Stories by Lamed Shapiro
Journeys Beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World
Talks
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War
On 5/20/20, Hunter hosted this online public program as part of the Hunter@Home series.
Dr. Garrett discussed her new book project which tells the remarkable and unknown story of a group of Jewish Holocaust refugees who were trained by the British to be commandos, fighting on the front lines of many of the most crucial battles of the Second World War.
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Mad Magazine
Dr. Garrett talks about how Mad Magazine influenced Postwar America.
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