Sylvia Frankel

Adjunct Faculty

department: Religious Studies
MSC: 45
office: 436 Miller Center
phone: 503-768-7485
e-mail: frankel@lclark.edu

Sylvia Frankel teaches the Introduction to Judaism class in the Religious Studies department. This course starts with the Rabbinic period around the 1st century C.E. and ends with contemporary American Jewry. Frankel has taught classes on Jewish History, the Holocaust amd Israeli literature at Portland State University, Reed College and Marylhurst. Her research focuses on Jewish identity since the emancipation period. Frankel also conducts oral histories for the Oregon Jewish Museum's Archives. She has directed and produced two videos based on her oral histories.