Marshall Sklare Award

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The Marshall Sklare Award is an annual honor of the Association for the Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ). The ASSJ seeks to recognize "a senior scholar who has made a significant scholarly contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry." In most cases, the recipient has given a scholarly address. In recent years, the honored scholar has presented the address at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies.

The award is named in memory of the "founding father of American Jewish sociology" Marshall Sklare (1912-1992), who had been Klutznick Family Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Sociology at Brandeis University.[1]

Past recipients, field of study, and the title of their scholarly paper have been:[2]

  • 2007, Barry R. Chiswick, Economics "The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Ph.D."[3][4]
  • 2006, Deborah Dash Moore, History, "On City Streets"
  • 2005 Elihu Katz, Communications, "Two Dilemmas of Religious Identity and Practice among Israeli Jews"
  • 2004 Egon Mayer, Sociology
  • 2003 Samuel Heilman, Sociology, "How did Fundamentalism Manage to Infiltrate Contemporary Orthodoxy?"
  • 2002 Jonathan Sarna, History, "From Past to Present: Contemporary Lessons fom the Study of American Judaism"
  • 2001 Calvin Goldscheider, Sociology and Demography, "Social Science and the Jews: A Research Agenda for the Next Generation"
  • 2000 Charles Liebman, Sociology, "Some Research Proposals for the Study of American Jews"
  • 1999 Sergio DellaPergola, Demography, "Thoughts of a Jewish Demographer in the Year 2000"
  • 1998 Bernard Reisman, Communal Service
  • 1997 Walter Zenner, Anthropology, "The Ethnography of Diaspora: Studying Syrian Jewry"
  • 1996 Samuel Klausner, Sociology
  • 1995, Daniel Elazar, Political Science
  • 1994, Celia Heller, History
  • 1993 Seymour Martin Lipset, Sociology
  • 1992 Sidney Goldstein, Demography

[edit] References

  1. ^ Marshall Sklare, 70, an Authority On Sociology of American Jewry - New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.
  2. ^ Association for the Scientific Study of Jewry. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.
  3. ^ AJS conference program, 2007
  4. ^ Homepage at Economics Faculty, UIC. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.