The 37th AAJS Conference, 16-17 February (Sunday-Monday) 2025 at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum SANCTUARY Full details at http://www.aajs.org.au/next-conference/ Sanctuaries are complex entities: they provide shelter from forces without and they also need to be continually protected and defended from within. Jews are saved (or not saved) by sanctuaries to the same degree that sanctuaries are saved (or not saved) by Jews. At the end of the 19th century, Asher Zvi…
STATEMENT FROM THE AAJS COMMITTEE
On behalf of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies we are writing to express our shock and deep concern at the horrific events that have unfolded in Israel. For members in our association, this war is very personal. Many of us have lived in Israel, and many have friends, family and colleagues who live there. Conflict in the region has an impact on Jewish Studies faculty and students around the…