52nd Annual Conference
December 13–17, 2020
The Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies in the largest annual international gathering of Jewish Studies scholars in the world. Wayne State University Press is a proud exhibitor at this year's conference. If you are a registered attendee, you can visit our virtual exhibit booth online.
Our conference discount is a hefty 45% off to align with our annual holiday sale. Use coupon code HOL1 at checkout on any purchase! Our newest books published in Jewish studies can be found here.
To request an examination copy of any of our Jewish studies titles, please fill out this form.
If you are interested in speaking with our editor about a book project in the field of Jewish studies, please contact Annie Martin, Editor-in-Chief, at annie.martin@wayne.edu, or schedule a meeting with her during AJS via calendly.com.
AUTHOR PANELS
We are excited to highlight our many authors on the conference program this year:
Victoria Aarons
Cartographies of Corporeality: Transnational Narratives of the Jewish Body
Sun, December 13, 3:45 to 5:00pm
Representing Intergenerational Holocaust Memory in Fiction, Memoir, and Film
Thu, December 17, 2:15 to 3:30pm
Eliyana R. AdlerJewish Refugees and the Imperial Order
Sun, December 13, 3:45 to 5:00pm
IT IS ONLY BEGINNING NOW: Polish Jewish Refugees and Knowledge of the Holocaust
Tue, December 15, 11:00am to 12:15pm
Jonathan Boyarin
The Reconstruction of the Jews: Europe’s Ambivalent Post-Holocaust Project
Tue, December 15, 11:00am to 12:15pm
Glen Dynner
JDC’s Multi-faceted Work in Poland in the Twentieth Century: Three Case Studies
Mon, December 14, 2:15 to 3:30pm
Zev Eleff
Zoom or Doom? Why Jewish Studies Matters in Cataclysmic Times
Wed, December 16, 2:15 to 3:30pm
Adam S. Ferziger
The Relationship between Religious Fundamentalisms and Jewish Orthodoxies: Reexaminations
Sun, December 13, 2:15 to 3:30pm & Thu, December 17, 11:00am to 12:15pm
Gabriel N. FinderJewish Refugees from Nazi Persecution
Sun, December 13, 2:15 to 3:30pm
Jewish Subjectivity within and beyond Borders: Post-Holocaust Jewish Agency in the Soviet Sphere of Influence and its Transnational Entanglements
Tue, December 15, 12:30 to 1:45pm
Itzik Gottesman
Ten Years of the Blog YIDDISH SONG OF THE WEEK
Mon, December 14, 2:15 to 3:30pm
Atina Grossmann
Jewish Refugees and the Imperial Order
Sun, December 13, 3:45 to 5:00pm
Jewish Subjectivity within and beyond Borders: Post-Holocaust Jewish Agency in the Soviet Sphere of Influence and its Transnational Entanglements
Tue, December 15, 12:30 to 1:45pm
Trauma, Privilege, and Adventure in Transit: Central European Jewish Refugees in Iran
Thu, December 17, 2:15 to 3:30pm
Rachel S. Harris
Teaching Through Film: Gender
Tue, December 15, 2:15 to 3:30pm
Lori Harrison-Kahan
Women and Literary Politics in the U.S.
Mon, December 14, 3:45 to 5:00pm & Tue, December 15, 2:15 to 3:30pm
Sheila Elana Jelen
Gender and Resistance: An Israeli Woman’s Holocaust Testimony as a Study in Testimonial Montage
Sun, December 13, 12:30 to 1:45pm
Ephraim Kanarfogel
HEKHALOT Literature and the Tosafists of Northern France
Mon, December 14, 3:45 to 5:00pm
Marjorie Lehman
Transmitting Ritual, Rearing Sons: The Role of Helene in Bavli Yoma
Sun, December 13, 2:15 to 3:30pm
Homing in on the Jewish Home: Rethinking a Foundational Category in Jewish Studies
Tue, December 15, 2:15 to 3:30pm
Laura Limonic
From Minority to Majority: Latino Jews in the U.S.
Mon, December 14, 12:30 to 1:45pm
Zoom or Doom? Why Jewish Studies Matters in Cataclysmic Times
Wed, December 16, 2:15 to 3:30pm
Guy Miron
The Jewish Home in Nazi Germany
Mon, December 14, 12:30 to 1:45pm
Ranen Omer-Sherman
The Past and Future of Liberal Zionism
Tue, December 15, 12:30 to 1:45pm
Avinoam Patt
Echoes of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Early Postwar Jewish Memory and the Shaping of Jewish Life in the Americas
Wed, December 16, 12:30 to 1:45pm
Shaping the Memory of the Holocaust
Wed, December 16, 2:15 to 3:30pm
Shachar M. Pinsker
Feuilletons between Politics and Culture
Sun, December 13, 12:30 to 1:45pm & Mon, December 14, 2:15 to 3:30pm
Riv-Ellen Prell
Radical Students, American Universities, and Jewish Visibility during the 1930s and 1960s
Sun, December 13, 3:45 to 5:00pm
Jews as a ‘Model Minority’ in Comparative Historical Perspective
Tue, December 15, 12:30 to 1:45pm
David G. Roskies
Crafting a Jewish Anthology
Mon, December 14, 3:45 to 5:00pm
Jan Schwarz
Feuilletons between Politics and Culture
Sun, December 13, 12:30 to 1:45pm & Mon, December 14, 2:15 to 3:30pm
New Studies in Scandinavian Jewish Identities
Thu, December 17, 11:00am to 12:15pm
Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
Gender and the Criminalization of Jewish-Christian Intimacy in Late Medieval Ashkenaz
Thu, December 17, 12:30 to 1:45pm
Maxim D. Shrayer
Post-Soviet Jewish Writing: Transnational Perspectives
Mon, December 14, 12:30 to 1:45pm & Tue, December 15, 12:30 to 1:45pm
Nancy Sinkoff
Max Weinreich and His Intellectual Circles
Wed, December 16, 11:00am to 12:15pm
Mark L. Smith
Memory and Trauma
Thu, December 17, 12:30 to 1:45pm
