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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
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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”
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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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The AJS Honors Its Authors program is pleased to recognize 2023 author @ElizGraver
for Kantika: A Novel
from @MetropolitanBks/@HenryHolt
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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.
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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
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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