President of the AAJR, 2014-2018 — Gershon David Hundert, who passed away on October 27th, 2023, aged 77, was not just one of the most important Jewish historians of his…

By Raymond P. Scheindlin, Jewish Theological Seminary — Menahem Hayyim Schmelzer was born in 1934 in Kecel, Hungary. In childhood, he received a thorough religious and secular education. During World…

By Josef Stern, The University of Chicago — Herbert A. Davidson, Professor of Hebrew Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles and Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish…