Association for Jewish Studies
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| Formation | September 1969 |
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| Founder | Leon Jick |
President | Robin Judd |
| Website | associationforjewishstudies.org |
The Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) is a scholarly organization in the United States that promotes academic Jewish Studies. The AJS was founded in 1969 and held its first annual conference that year at Brandeis University.[1][2] In 1976, the AJS began to publish a scholarly journal, the AJS Review.[1] The AJS is the largest academic Jewish Studies organization in the world.[3]
In 2023, the AJS's executive committee signed a statement authored by the American Council of Learned Societies against HB 999 in Florida.[4]
In 2023, Professor Steven Fine of Yeshiva University, the founding editor of AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies, criticized the AJS for becoming politicized and "taken over by the progressive left" and renounced his membership in AJS.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Shapiro, Edward S. (1995). A Time for Healing: American Jewry Since World War II. JHU Press. p. 80. ISBN 9780801851247.
- ^ Loveland, Kristen (2008). "THE ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES: A BRIEF HISTORY" (PDF).
- ^ Bolton-Fasman, Judy. "Association for Jewish Studies Returns to Boston for 50th Anniversary". JewishBoston. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- ^ Lapin, Andrew (March 22, 2023). "A Florida bill attacking 'critical theory' in higher education has the state's Jewish academics worried". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
- ^ Fine, Steven (February 21, 2023). "What has become of the Association for Jewish Studies?". Times of Israel. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
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