100 Years of Jewish Research
In response to the rise of the National Socialist Party in Germany, AAJR launched a plan to fund research fellowships for European Jewish scholars, providing their endangered colleagues a means…
By David Biale, University of California, Davis —— The world of Jewish Studies lost one its most urbane and sensitive readers of Hebrew literature with the death of Alan Mintz…
2016-2017 Congratulations Special Initiatives Grant Recipients The American Academy for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the winners of its Special Initiatives Grant (now known as Cross-Institutional Cooperative Grants). AAJR…
By David Berger, Yeshiva University —- Arthur Hyman was born on April 10, 1921, in Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In 1935, at the age of 14, three years before Kristallnacht, he…