Formation | September 1969 |
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Founder | Leon Jick |
President | Robin Judd |
Website | associationforjewishstudies.org |
The Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) is a scholarly organization in the United States that promotes academic Jewish Studies. The AJS was founded in 1969 and held its first annual conference that year at Brandeis University. [1] [2] In 1976, the AJS began to publish a scholarly journal, the AJS Review. [1] The AJS is the largest academic Jewish Studies organization in the world. [3]
In 2023, the AJS's executive committee signed a statement authored by the American Council of Learned Societies against HB 999 in Florida. [4]