Elevator Garage, Chicago, 1936
John Gutmann

The Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies

Since 1976 Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan has thrived as an interdisciplinary endeavor drawing on the rich resources of a diverse faculty, educating undergraduate and graduate students, and engaging the community. The inauguration of the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judiac Studies in 2007 establishes the University of Michigan as a premiere site for Jewish Studies in the United States.

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• FRANKEL INSTITUTE'S NEW THEME: Studying Jews: New Topics, New Methods, New Directions
• NEW RESEARCH FELLOW: McGinity Begins 2–year stay in Ann Arbor
• 2009–2010 INSTITUTE APPLICATIONS ARE DUE: Learn about The Culture of Jewish Objects here

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• September 11, Center Lecture: Mauro Perani
• September 18, Institute Colloquium: Hana Wirth–Nesher
• September 25, Institute Colloquium: Todd Endelman
  

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American Jewish Identity Politics, edited by Deborah Dash Moore, is now available from the University of Michigan Press. The volume explores changes among American Jews in their self-understanding during the last half of the 20th century. Written by scholars who grew up after World War II and the Holocaust who participated in political struggles in the 1960s and 1970s and who articulated many of the formative concepts of modern Jewish studies, American Jewish Identity Politics provides a window into an era of social change. These men and women are among the leading experts of Jewish history, society, and culture. For more information on the book, click on Spotlight.