Australian Association for Jewish Studies

The Australian Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS) is a scholarly organization in Australia that promotes academic Jewish Studies. AAJS was founded in 1987 and held its first annual conference that year in Melbourne.^[1] AAJS is Australia's national association for tertiary academics, Jewish educators, researchers, curators, students and others devoted to the study of any aspect of Jewish life, thought and culture.

Since February 2017, the president of the association has been Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann.^[2][3] The current vice-presidents are Dr Lynne Swarts (NSW) and Dr Anna Hirsh (Victoria).^[4][5]

AAJS annual conferences have been held all over Australia, for example Canberra (ACT Jewish Community, 2021), Sydney (Sydney Jewish Museum, 2020, 2017; UNSW and Shalom College, 2015), Melbourne (Monash University, 2019; Deakin University, 2022), Perth (St Catherine’s College, University of Western Australia, 2018), Brisbane (Griffith University, 2016) and Adelaide (The University of Adelaide, 2014).^[6]

AAJS is the publisher of the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies.