Jonathan Skolnik Appointed Editor of Association for Jewish Studies Magazine

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Jonathan Skolnik, associate professor of German, adjunct associate professor of history, and adjunct associate professor of Judaic and Near Eastern studies in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, has been appointed as co-editor of AJS Perspectives, the magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS).

Skolnik’s research and teaching focuses on German-Jewish Studies, intellectual history and film studies. He is the author of “Jewish Pasts, German Fictions: History, Memory, Minority Culture in Germany, 1824-1955” (Stanford University Press, 2014) and has edited special issues of New German Critique on secularization and disenchantment and German-Jewish religious thought. He has held fellowships from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, and has served as vice president of the North American Heine Society. Skolnik was also interim director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at UMass Amherst in 2016-17.

Founded in 1969, the Association for Jewish Studies is a learned society and professional organization whose mission is to advance research and teaching in Jewish Studies at colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning, and to foster greater understanding of Jewish Studies scholarship among the wider public. As editor of AJS Perspectives, Skolnik also serves as a member of the AJS Board of Directors.