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Welcome to The Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Dedicated to fostering the continued development of Jewish studies on the Emory campus, the Institute for Jewish Studies is the natural outgrowth of carefully laid groundwork. In recent years, Jewish Studies has flourished, as evidenced by new faculty appointments, including endowed chairs, new graduate and undergraduate degree programs, endowed lecture series, and enrichment funds to support student and faculty travel and study.
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Faculty Highlights
Congratulations to Deborah Lipstadt (The Eichmann Trial) and Cornelia Wilhelm (The Independent Orders of B’nai B’rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity, 1843-1914) whose new books were finalists for the 2011 National Jewish Book Awards.
Miriam Udel, Assistant Professor in German Studies and Jewish Studies, was featured in an Associated Press piece on the revival of Yiddish language and culture. See the following links:
The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies is proud to welcome our newest faculty member Dr. Ellie Schainker, Blank Family Foundation Assistant Professor in History and Jewish Studies. Dr. Schainker specializes in early modern and modern Russian and Eastern European Jewish history, with a particular interest in issues of conversion and assimilation. Her dissertation, defended in spring 2010, was entitled “Imperial Hybrids: Russian-Jewish Converts in the Nineteenth Century,” and during 2010-11, she was a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. This fall she is teaching JS 371/HIST 385, The History of East European Jewry.
Paul Root Wolpe, director of Emory University’s Center for Ethics and affiliated Jewish Studies faculty member, has been named a finalist for a prestigious World Technology Award in Ethics, to be presented by the World Technology Network (WTN) at the United Nations next week. Wolpe joins a roster of organizations and individuals from more than 60 countries around the world deemed to be doing the most innovative and impactful work in the ethics of technology as well as other technology categories. Read the complete story at http://bit.ly/wta-wolpe
Congratulations to Michael Broyde, Professor of Law and core faculty member in TIJS, on the publication of his new edited book Contending With Catastrophe: Jewish Perspectives on September 11th. The book is a collection of essays on Jewish law, ethics and theology by Jewish scholars and rabbis of the Beth Din of America dealing with questions brought forth from the tragedy.
Joseph Skibell, Associate Professor of creative writing and an affiliated faculty member of TIJS, has been named Georgia Author of the Year in Fiction for 2011 for his novel A Curable Romantic.
Deborah Lipstadt has been nominated by President Barack Obama as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, which serves as an advisory board to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Congratulations to Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, on the publication of her new book, The Eichmann Trial.
Jacob Wright, assistant professor of Hebrew Bible at Candler School of Theology and TIJS core faculty member, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year. The fellowship will support Wright’s research on the role of war as a catalyst for change in Ancient Israelite society. This research stems from Wright’s previous work with the excavations at Ramat Rachel, a community outside Jerusalem, and a book project that examines Ancient Israelite military and war. MORE INFO
Congratulations to Professor Joseph Skibell whose new novel A Curable Romantic has been named a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish fiction. This is among the most prestigious prizes in Jewish fiction.
TIJS congratulates Professor Benjamin Hary on being named Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Hebrew, Arabic, and Linguistics. Each year, the College names three Winship Distinguished Research Professors, one from each division. This is a three-year award for tenured faculty who have demonstrated singular accomplish-ments in research. Congratulations, Benny, on this outstanding achievement!
Matthew Bernstein’s book Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television (University of Georgia Press) was a finalist in the Theatre Library Association’s 2010 competition for the Richard Wall Memorial Award, which recognizes books of “exceptional scholarship in the field of recorded performance.” Bernstein is Professor and Chair of Film Studies, and an affiliated faculty member of TIJS.
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News & Events
NEW! Graduate Certificate Program in Jewish Studies Beginning in Fall 2011, the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies (TIJS) will coordinate a new graduate certificate program providing formal recognition of a Jewish-studies focus for Ph.D. students working in any department of Emory’s Laney Graduate School. The program offers supplemental training in methods and languages; exposure to cross-disciplinary perspectives; funding opportunities for research, study, and travel; and mentoring in the professional culture of Jewish studies. Participants will be part of a vibrant intellectual community that brings together students and faculty members from across the university.
JS Seminar Series - Spring 2012
Mediterannean Archaeology Lecture Series
Article highlights the increasing diversity of Jews in America
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The establishment of Emory University’s Institute for Jewish Studies in February 1999 gave institutional recognition to the university’s strength in the study of Jewish life and culture, and signaled Emory’s intention to become the premier site for Jewish Studies in the southeastern United States.