She received her BA from Tel Aviv University and her MA from La Sapienza University in Rome. She completed her PhD in 2012 at New York University, where she was a proud member of the Taub Center for Israel Studies. Dr Klein is currently revising her doctoral dissertation into a book manuscript, a cultural history of Italian Jewry and its diaspora in the United States and Palestine. It enquires into the experiences of Italian Jews from the time of emancipation in the nineteenth century until after the Holocaust. Dr Klein has received a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship in Jewish Studies for 2014-2015, which will enable her to spend the year in Israel working on her manuscript. Fredrik Meiton, PhD Awarded Spring 2015