Azzan Yadin-Israel
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Azzan Yadin-Israel is a professor of Jewish studies and classics at Rutgers University. He is the author of two books on early rabbinic biblical interpretation, a book on the biblical and theological themes in Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics, and a book series on the historical connections between English and other languages. He earned his BA from the Hebrew University and his PhD from UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union.
Jim Mavrikios finds nothing incongruous about being a Greek-American Jewish Arabist—and program manager of New Lehrhaus. In 2001 he founded Pacific Arabic, a language school in downtown San Francisco. He served as executive director there until 2020, while also teaching Standard and Moroccan Arabic.