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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 Highlights
Jacob L. Wright, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible, has been awarded a prestigious NEH Faculty Fellowship. With more than 1300 applications, the NEH is one of the most selective fellowships for American academics. The fellowship will support Wright as he carries out research on the role of war as a catalyst for change in ancient Israelite society. As a visiting fellow at Shalem during the 2009-2010 academic year, Wright is completing a book for Oxford University Press on war commemoration and national identity in ancient Israel and early Jewish history.
Congratulations to Matthew Bernstein, professor and chair of Film Studies, whose book, Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television (University of Georgia Press, 2009), has been named "Academic Book of the Year in Film Studies" by CHOICE Magazine, one of thirteen books selected from the hundreds published last year.
Deborah Lipstadt has been awarded the Townsend Harris Medal from the Alumni Association of the City College of New York. The medal goes to business, cultural, and social leaders, and past awardees include Felix Frankfurter, Jonas Salk, Mordechai Kaplan, Nathan Glazer, Alfred Steiglitz, and Secretary of State Colin Powell.
NEW BOOKS BY TIJS FACULTY
Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies David Blumenthal published a French translation of his critically acclaimed book The Banality of Good and Evil (Georgetown University Press, 1999), translated into French by Alain Blum (Les Editions du Cerf, 2009)
Associate Professor Don Seeman recently published his highly praised ethnography One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism (Rutgers University Press, 2009)
Two TIJS professors have won prestigious University Research Committee fellowships for the 2009-2010 academic year - Prof. Ofra Yeglin for “Abba Kovner`s MLP (Modern Long Holocaust Poem)” and Prof. Benjamin Hary for “Jewish Sacred Texts from Egypt”.
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News & Events
Tam Institute for Jewish Studies Seminar Series
Jacobo Timerman Symposium
David R. Blumenthal Awards 2010 - Submission Guidelines
Read the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies FALL 2008 Newsletter online
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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.
