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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 HighlightsHazel Gold, Associate Professor of Spanish and Jewish Studies, has been selected to spend next year as a Senior Fellow in residence at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, where she will be completing her manuscript, "Writing as Postscript: Epistolary Discourse in Modern Spain". Eric Goldstein, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History, has also been selected to receive a prestigious Center for Humanistic Inquiry fellowship for next year for his second book project, "Turning A Page: How Yiddish-Speaking Immigrants to America Were Transformed Through Reading." Professor Goldstein also recently won the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Choice Award. Dr. Goldstein was selected for this honor on the basis of his prize-winning book, The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race and American Identity. Marina Rustow, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, recently received a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her new book project Patronage and Politics: Islamic Empire and the Medieval Jewish Community which will enable her to conduct summer research in the Cambridge University Library. Jacob Wright, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible, received the Templeton Award for "Best First Books in Religion" for his book Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and Its Earliest Readers. Professor Wright also won Emory's Faculty Distinction Fund Award. MORE INFO Matthew Bernstein, chair and director of graduate studies for Emory's film studies department and affiliated faculty member of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, was honored on April 8th at the 2008 IMAGE Film Awards Gala for his academic work as well as his efforts to promote film in and around Atlanta.
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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.