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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
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”.
Prof. Kenneth Stein will receive the 2009 Cuttino Award. The Cuttino Award recognizes faculty members who distinguish themselves as mentors to students. The late George Peddy Cuttino, a member of our history department faculty from 1952 to 1984, won renown among several generations of Emory students not only as a teacher, but also as a guide and counselor beyond the classroom. He motivated and encouraged his students, gave them sound and honest advice, and in many cases formed personal friendships with them that lasted long past their time at Emory. John Glover, Emory College Class of 1968, was one of these students. In 1997, he established this award to remember his mentor and friend by honoring faculty members who, like Professor Cuttino, give much of themselves to Emory students.
TIJS Chair Jeffrey Lesser has been chosen as the 2010-2011 Sackler Scholar at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Past fellows include such illustrious scholars of Jewish studies as Shaye Cohen (Harvard), Shoshana Felman (Emory), Benjamin Harshav (Yale), David Ruderman (UPenn), Peter Schäfer (Princeton and Freie Universität Berlin), David Weiss Halivni (emeritus, Columbia) and Yosef Yerushalmi (emeritus, Columbia). Other past recipients in history include the polymath Ernest Gellner (LSE), the medieval historian Robert Lopez (Yale), the Roman historian Fergus Millar (Oxford), and the Russian historian Richard Pipes (Harvard). This is a great honor not only for Jeff but also for TIJS and for Emory! NEW BOOKS BY TIJS FACULTY TIJS Chair Jeffrey Lesser with Raanan Rein (eds.) published Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans, in Lyman Johnson (series ed.) “Dialogos” (University of New Mexico Press, 2008).
Marina Rustow published her first book, Heretics and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (Cornell University Press, 2008)
Ofra Yeglin published the book “Love” and “Gold” Poems: The Complete Sonnets of Lea Goldberg, a critical edition of previously unpublished primary sources (Sifriat Poalim – Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishers Ltd., 2008).
Benjamin Hary published the book Translating Religion: Linguistic Analysis of Judeo-Arabic Sacred Texts from Egypt. Translating Religion places Judeo-Arabic along the Jewish linguistic spectrum, traces its history and offers insights to the spoken variety of Egyptian Judeo-Arabic, which set it apart from other Arabic dialects. The book also provides a linguistic model of the translation of the sacred texts.
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News & Events
TIJS Undergraduate Grants in Jewish Studies for Summer 2009 - Winners
TIJS Graduate Student Travel Awards for Research and Study for Summer 2009 - Winners
David R. Blumenthal Awards 2009 - Winners
Read the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies FALL 2008 Newsletter online
Tam Institute for Jewish Studies Graduate Seminar Series
Jacob Wright wins Templeton Award for Theological Promise and Faculty Distinction Fund Award
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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.