By Adele Berlin, University of Maryland —- William W. Hallo was The William M. Laffan Professor Emeritus of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale University, where he taught for forty years….

By Deborah Dash Moore, University of Michigan —- Paula E. Hyman, distinguished Yale University historian of European Jewry, served as president of the American Academy for Jewish Research from 2004 to…

By Michael A. Meyer, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion —- A long-time Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Ben Zion Wacholder passed away in Roslyn Heights, New York,…