A History of EAJS Congresses

EAJS Congresses

The Twelfth EAJS Congress will be held in Frankfurt, Germany, on 16-20 July 2023

1982: First EAJS Congress, Oxford, 18th-21st July 1982

1984: Methodology in Jewish Studies. Second EAJS Congress, Oxford, 22nd-26th July 1984

1987: The Interpretation of Scripture in Judaism. Third EAJS Congress, Berlin, 26th-31st July 1987

1990: Commentary, Interpretation, Translation. Fourth EAJS Congress, Troyes, 8th-13th July 1990

1994: Jewish Studies in a New Europe. Fifth EAJS Congress, Copenhagen, 14th-18th August 1994

1998: Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Sixth EAJS Congress, Toledo, 19th-23rd July 1998

[Proceedings published as Judit Targarona Borrás and Angel Sáenz-Badillos (Editors) Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Proceedings of the 6th EAJS Congress Toledo, July 1998. 2 volumes. Leiden, Brill, 1999]

2002: Jewish Studies and the European Academic World. Seventh EAJS Congress, Amsterdam, 21st-25th July 2002

[Keynote lectures published as Albert van der Heide and Irene E. Zwiep (Editors) Jewish Studies and the European Academic World. Plenary Lectures read at the VIIth Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) Amsterdam, July 2002. Collection de la Revue des Études juives dirigée par Simon C. Mimouni en Gérard Nahon. Peeters, Paris-Louvain, 2005  ISBN 90-429-1616-8 / 2-87723-871-7]

2006: Past and present perspectives in Jewish Studies. Eighth EAJS Congress, Moscow, 23rd-27th July 2006

2010: Judaism in the Mediterranean Context. Ninth EAJS Congress, Ravenna, 25th-29th July 2010

2014: Jewish and Non-Jewish Cultures in Contact: New Research Perspectives. Tenth EAJS Congress, Paris, 20th-24th July 2014

2018: Searching for Roots of Jewish Traditions, Eleventh EAJS Congress, Kraków, 15th-19th July 2018