AMERICAN ACADEMY FOR JEWISH RESEARCH
- AMERICAN ACADEMY FOR JEWISH RESEARCH
- AMERICAN ACADEMY FOR JEWISH RESEARCH, organization of
scholars, rabbis, and interested laymen; formally established in 1920
and incorporated in 1929 under the laws of the State of Maryland. The
original officers were Louis Ginzberg, president; Gotthard Deutsch, vice
president; Henry Malter, secretary; and Jacob Z. Lauterbach, treasurer.
The Academy's functions include periodic public meetings at which
learned papers are read and discussed, joint scholarly ventures,
publication of scholarly works, and the establishment of a working
relationship with other groups of similar character and aims. An annual
meeting is held at the end of each year, at which members and invited
guests are asked to present the results of their particular
investigations; most of these reports are published in the yearly
Proceedings (1930–present). Monograph series produced by the
Academy are Ya'acov b. Ela'zar Kitab al Kamil (N. Allony),
Affricated Sade in Semitic Languages (R. Steiner), and
Economics & Toleration in 17th Century Venice (B.
Ravid). The Academy also financed and endowed publications of several
critical editions of classical texts, such as Midrash Leviticus
Rabbah, the tractate Ta'anit of the Babylonian Talmud,
Yerushalmi Neziqin with introduction and commentary by
Professor Saul Lieberman (first printing 1983; second printing 1986).
Among other works published by the Academy are the Union Catalog of
Hebrew Manuscripts and Their Location (1973) by Aron Freimann and
Le-Toledot Nusah ha-She'iltot (Textual History of the
She'iltot,
1991. by R. Brody. It has made numerous grants to promising young
scholars. The income of the Academy is derived from membership
dues, allocations by welfare boards, special contributions, and
bequests. The Academy's membership is composed of fellows, who are
nominated and elected by their peers, and associate members who
are enrolled upon nomination. Most of its affairs are conducted on
a volunteer basis. The Academy's presidents from the late 1960s on
have been salo baron (1968–71; 1975–81); Louis Finklestein
(1971–75); Harry M. Orlinsky (1981–83); Isaac E. Barzilay
(1983–89); David Weiss Halivni (1989–92); Arthur Hyman
(1992–96); robert chazan (1996–2000); david ruderman
(2000–04); and paula e. hyman from 2004.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research
(1928), secretary's report.
(Abraham Solomon Halkin)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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