AJS

Association for Jewish Studies, the learned society and professional association of Jewish Studies scholars. RTs and Follows are not endorsements.

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2024 Annual Conference CFP: Deadline Extended!
The deadline to submit a proposal for the 2024 Annual Conference to Thursday, May 16, 5:00 pm EST.
Learn more, ask questions, or submit a proposal now: https://t.co/0VKPoZD9eD

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“...portrays Blau as someone deeply dedicated to her beliefs in an admirable though flawed way.”

AJS member @mottiinbari and his new book, Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose, are featured in @TimesofIsrael

https://t.co/DzkYkvaIdS

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Congratulations to AJS member @SmithHelmut the 23-24
@NEHgov Scholar in Residence at @cjewishhistory! He will be researching and writing a book, tentatively titled “Hometowns after the Holocaust: How Germans and Jews Made the Memory Culture of the Federal Republic, 1945-2000”

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The AJS Honors Its Authors program is pleased to recognize 2023 author @leataragin

for The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land

Available August 8!

from @NYUpress

https://t.co/FBscQg8TxI

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“Any seri­ous admir­er of Amos Oz’s extra­or­di­nary body of work will find much to pon­der and enjoy in this thought-pro­vok­ing anthology"

AJS member Ranen Omer-Sherman’s Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond, is reviewed @JewishBook
https://t.co/1RkWhBoRP2

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The AJS Honors Its Authors program is pleased to recognize 2023 author @KerenMcginity

for #UsToo: How Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities

Available July 31!

from @routledgebooks

https://t.co/FBscQg9rng

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AJS member Jodi Magness led an archaeological effort which led to the discovery of a Roman-era mosaic depicting the biblical Samson at the 1600 year old synagogue at Huqoq.

https://t.co/HZmw9RWeUR

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The AJS Honors Its Authors program is pleased to recognize 2023 author Frederick E. Greenspahn

for Judaism and Its Bible: A People and Their Book

Out August 1!

from @JewishPub

https://t.co/FBscQg9rng

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Join us for a free webinar!

From CV to Resume: Applying to Non-Academic Jobs
September 12, 2023; 12:30 pm EDT

Learn how to search for and find sustainable meaningful work outside of the academy.

https://t.co/8gXUrTlH9T

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The AJS Honors Its Authors program is pleased to recognize 2023 author @ElizGraver

for Kantika: A Novel

from @MetropolitanBks/@HenryHolt

https://t.co/FBscQg8TxI

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“Changing hearts and minds requires honest portrayals of Orthodox LGBTQ+ realities, in all their complexities,”

writes AJS member Orit Avishai about an actor pretending to be a gay Haredi man on social media.

https://t.co/lc6SWYYFGu

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The AJS Honors Its Authors program is pleased to recognize 2023 author @LauraYares

for Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

from @NYUpress

https://t.co/FBscQg8TxI

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The UK’s @unisouthampton has introduced a new master’s degree program in Holocaust Studies which will explore the Holocaust as a historical event and as “negative heritage.”

https://t.co/VODqAYe3Xp

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The AJS Honors Its Authors program is pleased to recognize 2023 author Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg

for The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible

from @PrincetonUPress

https://t.co/FBscQg8TxI

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AJS member Carolin Aronis is one of the advisors to the US National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. In this feature, she discusses her work and makes recommendations for universities.

https://t.co/xjxA8BW61A

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The AJS Honors Its Authors program is pleased to recognize 2023 author Alan Verskin

for Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe

from @stanfordpress

https://t.co/FBscQg8TxI

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AJS member Gila Silverman is joining the staff of Shomer Collective, a social startup dedicated to sharing Jewish wisdom and sparking cultural change around end of life care.

https://t.co/r2nZdKOOBl

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The AJS Honors Its Authors program is pleased to recognize 2023 author @MagdaTeter

for Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism

from @PrincetonUPress

https://t.co/FBscQg9rng

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“The book is a marker of what's going on in the field at this point,”

AJS member Samuel Hayim Brody is featured regarding the new book, The King is in the Field: Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought, he co-edited with AJS member Julie Cooper.

https://t.co/HZp7W3Dv43

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New in the AJS Career Center!

Lama Shetzer Professorship in Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies (@UMJudaicStudies). This is a tenure-track/tenured position.

Review of applications to begin Sept 18

https://t.co/cZ2853NP14