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2021 Sponsors and Exhibitors

Conference Sponsors


cwru

Case Western Reserve University, Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program
Sponsor of the Conference Tote Bag

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) connects the academic world to the wider community through innovative and engaging personal enrichment programming. Adults of all ages pursue their love of learning by participating in courses and lectures with CWRU faculty, internationally renowned scholars, and local experts who share their cutting-edge research and current topics of interest. For more information, visit case.edu/lifelonglearning


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The Jewish Theological Seminary, Gershon Gekst Graduate School
Sponsor of the Conference Pens

The Gershon Kekst Graduate School of The Jewish Theological Seminary offers the most extensive academic program in advanced Jewish Studies in North America.


Littauer

The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation
Sponsor of CrowdPass

 


northwestern

Northwestern University, Crown Family Center for Jewish & Israel Studies
Sponsor of Wifi

The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University is a hub for transformational undergraduate and graduate education, innovative faculty and student research, and accessible and engaging communal programming.


Sami Rohr Prize

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
Sponsor of the AJS Honors Its Authors Program

In coordination with AJS, the Jewish Book Council's Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature's booth will display 2021 books by the AJS membership. We look forward to greeting you at the Jewish Book Council Booth.


Stanford Taube Center

Stanford University, Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Sponsor of the Graduate Student Reception

The Taube Center for Jewish Studies offers an interdisciplinary program for the study and understanding of Jewish cultures, literatures, languages, religion, politics, and history.


Wesleyan

Wesleyan University
Sponsor of the Film Festival

Wesleyan has an over forty-year history in sponsoring learning in this area. Courses in Jewish Studies and in Hebrew were introduced at Wesleyan in 1967. In its initial years, the program was a modest, though ambitious one and included mainly courses in Judaism and Hebrew language taught in the Religion Department. Over the years the curriculum has grown significantly and courses are taught not only in the Religion Department, but also in a number of other departments. The Hebrew program has become especially robust with classes on all levels from Introductory Hebrew through advanced courses in Israeli literature and culture. Students interested in spending their semester abroad in Israel can enroll in one of the approved programs at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva, and Haifa University.


York University

Yale University, Judaic Studies Program
Sponsor of the Mobile App

The Program in Judaic Studies enables students to develop a broad knowledge of the history, religion, literature, philosophy, languages, and politics of the Jews. Jewish societies, texts, ideologies, material cultures, and institutions are studied in a comparative perspective in the context of histories, cultures, and intellectual traditions among which Jews have lived throughout the ages. As an interdisciplinary program, Judaic Studies employs historical, literary, political, social and philosophical methods of analysis.


York University

York University, Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies
Sponsor of the Badge Holder Cords

The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies is Canada’s first interdisciplinary research centre in Jewish Studies, bringing together a vibrant community of scholars and teachers to promote cutting-edge research in the field.

Plenary Sponsors


Gold

Stanford

Sefaria

Sefaria is home to 3,000 years of Jewish texts. We are a non-profit organization offering free access to texts, translations, and commentaries so that everyone can participate in the ongoing process of studying, interpreting, and creating Torah.


Stanford

Stanford University, Taube Center for Jewish Studies

The Taube Center for Jewish Studies offers an interdisciplinary program for the study and understanding of Jewish cultures, literatures, languages, religion, politics, and history.


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IU Borns

Arizona State University, Center for Jewish Studies

ASU Jewish Studies—a unique academic program and research center hybrid—serves as an intellectual resource for all aspects of the Jewish experience, from philosophical and political viewpoints to the study of Judaism.


IU Borns

Indiana University, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program

The Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University is one of the largest, oldest, and most comprehensive programs of its kind.


UConn

The Jewish Theological Seminary, The Gershon Kekst Graduate School

The Gershon Kekst Graduate School of The Jewish Theological Seminary offers the most extensive academic program in advanced Jewish Studies in North America.


jhu

Johns Hopkins University, The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies

The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program is dedicated to the study of Jewish history, literature, language, politics, and religion. The program provides students with the opportunity to explore more than three millennia of Jewish culture and civilization, from biblical to contemporary times.


rice

Rice University Program in Jewish Studies

The Program in Jewish Studies at Rice University is committed to the academic study of Judaism in its many forms, expressions, and customs.


Towson BHI

Towson University, Baltimore Hebrew Institute

The Baltimore Hebrew Institute (formerly Baltimore Hebrew University) at Towson University , is committed to supporting the education of Jewish educators, communal professionals and Judaic studies scholars who wish to excel in their chosen fields.


UConn

University of Connecticut, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life

University of Connecticut Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life offers Judaic Studies through creative scholarship, undergraduate and graduate courses, scholarly lectures, and community events.


Carolina Ctr

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies

Established in 2003, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill unites the general public, students and faculty from various academic disciplines who share a common passion for a deeper understanding of Jewish history, culture and thought.


Penn Katz

University of Pennsylvania, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is driven by the mission to deepen and broaden the understanding of Jewish history, texts, cultures, ideas, and experiences. The research it supports spans all periods of Jewish history, from distant antiquity through to the present day; it reaches into every part of the globe where Jews have lived, and it is grounded in a wide range of disciplines and approaches. Over the decades, after supporting hundreds of scholars and untold numbers of discoveries and publications, it has earned a reputation as one the nation’s preeminent research center in the study of Jewish history and culture.


University of Toronto

University of Toronto, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies

Over the past five decades, the University of Toronto has developed one of the best and most comprehensive Jewish Studies programs in North America. Jewish Studies faculty offer courses in numerous disciplines, including archeology, art, history, languages, literature, performance, philosophy, political science, religion, and sociology.


UVA

University of Virginia, Jewish Studies Program

The University of Virginia's Jewish Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program drawing on more than thirty affiliated scholars from religious studies, history, anthropology, sociology, literature, music and other fields.​ Our aim is to study and teach the Jewish experience through space and time, as well as training the next generation of scholars and providing academic programs for students and the larger public.


Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt University, Program in Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt offers an interdisciplinary department that facilitates the critical study of Jewish history, religion, language, philosophy, politics, culture, society, music, art, and literature across continents and over three millennia. Integral to understanding crucial moments in the formation of Christianity and Islam as well as distinct episodes in the cultures of the modern Middle East, Europe, and America, the program accesses the resources of the entire university to explore Judaism, its evolution and expression from biblical times to the present.


Wesleyan

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan has an over forty-year history in sponsoring learning in this area. Courses in Jewish Studies and in Hebrew were introduced at Wesleyan in 1967. In its initial years, the program was a modest, though ambitious one and included mainly courses in Judaism and Hebrew language taught in the Religion Department. Over the years the curriculum has grown significantly and courses are taught not only in the Religion Department, but also in a number of other departments. The Hebrew program has become especially robust with classes on all levels from Introductory Hebrew through advanced courses in Israeli literature and culture. Students interested in spending their semester abroad in Israel can enroll in one of the approved programs at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva, and Haifa University.

Exhibitors


academic studies press

Academic Studies Press

Academic Studies Press is an independent scholarly publisher devoted to advancing knowledge and understanding in the humanities and social sciences.


ABA Lawyers Without Rights

American Bar Association

Holocaust-related books and exhibit, Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany under the Third Reich.


Brandeis UP

Brandeis University Press
(Online Exhibitor)

Brandeis University Press publishes in a variety of scholarly and general interest award-winning books.


Brill

Brill

Brill is an academic publisher focusing on the humanities.


Cambridge UP

Cambridge University Press
(Online Exhibitor)

Cambridge presents the best in Jewish Studies with high quality academic titles and journals.


CCAR Press

CCAR Press
(Online Exhibitor)

CCAR Press is the primary publisher of the Reform Movement and a division of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Since 1889, CCAR Press has provided essential resources for the Jewish community of today and tomorrow.


DeGruyter

De Gruyter
(In-person and Online Exhibitor)

De Gruyter publishes first-class scholarship and has done so for more than 270 years.


Hendrickson

Hendrickson Publishers

Through our academic publishing program, we seek to meet the needs of the religious studies academic community worldwide with works on the Hebrew Bible and Hebrew language, ancient Near Eastern studies and archaeology, New Testament and Greek language, biblical theology, Judaism, patristics, church history, historical theology, practical theology, and religion and culture.


IJP

Index to Jewish Periodicals

A comprehensive, annually published guide to articles, book reviews, feature stories, and other contents in English, appearing in more than 200 periodicals devoted to Jewish affairs. Most references are not found in the standard periodical literature guides available in many libraries.


IU Press

Indiana University Press
(Online Exhibitor)

Indiana University Press’s mission is to inform and inspire scholars, students, and thoughtful general readers by disseminating ideas and knowledge of global significance, regional importance, and lasting value.


Ingram Academic

Ingram Academic
(Online Exhibitor)

Ingram Academic is thrilled to showcase course books from a variety of publishers include Academic Studies Press, Berghahn Books, Fordham University Press, The New Press, and many more. AJS attendees can visit the Ingram Academic site to request desk and exam copies.


ISD

ISD LLC

Distributor of scholarly books from publishers worldwide.


JPS

The Jewish Publication Society

(In-person and Online Exhibitor)

The Jewish Publication Society (JPS) is about the great books of Judaism. For the past 125 years JPS has been the preeminent publisher of books at the heart of Jewish culture in the English reading world.


Kafir

Kafir Yaroq Books

Books for the study of source texts of the Hebrew tradition


Kohlhammer

Kohlhammer
(Online Exhibitor)

Kohlhammer is a family-owned German publishing house, established in 1866. It has upheld a tradition of publishing the finest in a wide range of academic books, both for professionals and for interested and informed readers.


Koren

Koren Publishers
(Online Exhibitor)

Koren Publishers publishes a wide variety of Jewish religious texts and books in Hebrew and English.


Littman

The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
(Online Exhibitor)

The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization aims to explore, explain, and perpetuate the Jewish heritage.


NYU Press

NYU Press
(Online Exhibitor)

NYU Press is an award-winning publisher in the humanities and social sciences.


OAJA

Official Anti-Jewish Acts Project

A compendium of over 2,700 official anti-Jewish laws, acts, and regulations since 456 BCE.


oxford

Oxford University Press 
(Online Exhibitor)

Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world, publishing in 70 languages and 190 countries.


Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan is a global publisher of quality non-fiction and academic books including monographs, textbooks, and handbooks.


PSUP

Penn State University Press
(Online Exhibitor)

Penn State University Press publishes rigorously reviewed, high-quality works of scholarship and regional and contemporary interest, with a focus on the humanities and social sciences.


Posen Library

The Posen Library
(Online Exhibitor)

A vibrant, growing collection curated by leading Jewish Studies scholars which offers unprecedented direct access to thousands of primary sources reflecting Jewish creativity, diversity, and culture world-wide, spanning biblical times to the 21st century.


pup

Princeton University Press
(Online Exhibitor)

Princeton University Press publishes distinguished trade and textbooks in Jewish Studies.


religions

Religions
(Online Exhibitor)

Religions is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal on religions and theology, published monthly online by MDPI.


rowman

Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books
(Online Exhibitor)

Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books publishes critically acclaimed general interest, scholarly books, college textbooks, professional titles, and award winning reference titles.


rutgers

Rutgers University Press

Rutgers University Press is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge to scholars, students, and the general reading public. The Press reflects and extends the University’s core mission of research, instruction, and service. We enhance the work of our authors through exceptional publications that shape critical issues, spark debate, and enrich teaching throughout the world for a wide range of readers.


srp

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

In coordination with AJS, the Jewish Book Council's Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature's booth will display 2021 books by the AJS membership. We look forward to greeting you at the Jewish Book Council Booth.


The Scholars Choice

The Scholar’s Choice

The Scholar’s Choice is a combined exhibit company which markets books on behalf of university and academic publishers. We exhibit at 80–100 conferences a year, bringing the latest in scholarship by presses who choose not to exhibit on their own.


suny press

SUNY Press
(Online Exhibitor)

SUNY Press is publisher of nationally recognized and rapidly growing lists of publications in the areas of Jewish Studies.


penn press

University of Pennsylvania Press

Penn Press exists to publish meritorious works that advance scholarly research and educational objectives.


u toronto press

University of Toronto Press
(Online Exhibitor)

University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America.


wsup

Wayne State University Press
(Online Exhibitor)

Wayne State University Press is a leading publisher of Great Lakes books, Judaica, and African American studies, as well as a wide range of other scholarly and general interest titles. The Press disseminates research, advances education, and serves the local community while expanding the international reputation of the Press and the University.


yale up

Yale University Press
(Online Exhibitor)

The largest U.S.-based university press, YUP is known for its prize-winning books across an array of subjects.