FELLOWS REFLECT ON HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PAGES OF THE PAAJR

As part the Academy’s commemoration of its Centennial, six AAJR fellows from different fields have been asked to identify one or two particularly influential articles from the Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research over the course of its publication from 1928 to 2001.

Read their short reflections now:

• Gershon Hundert on Bernard D. Weinryb, “Texts and Studies in the Communal History of Polish Jewry,” PAAJR 19 (1950), 1-110 ➚
• John Efron on Philip Friedman, “The European Jewish Research on the Recent Jewish Catastrophe in 1939-1945,” PAAJR 18 (1948-1949): 179-211 ➚
• John Efron on Zosa Szajkowski, “Protestants and Jews of France in the Fight for Emancipation, 1789-1791,” PAAJR 25 (1956): 119-135 ➚
• Ephraim Kanarfogel on A. S. Halkin, “Why was Levi ben Hayyim Hounded?” PAAJR 34 (1966), 65-76 ➚
• Mark R. Cohen on S. D. Goitein, “What Would Jewish and General History Benefit from a Systematic Publication of the Geniza Documents?” PAAJR (1954) ➚
• Christine Hayes on Simon Rawidowicz, “On Interpretation,” PAAJR 26 (1957), 83-126 ➚