Ten volumes of Jewish culture, published by Yale in collaboration with the Posen Foundation (I wonder how big the grant is; Posen also supports Israeli scholars). Dershowitz is in the last volume, per Patricia Cohen.
“This monumental project includes the best of Jewish culture in its historical and global entirety,” the editor in chief, James E. Young, a professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, said in a news release.
The series… is starting at the end, with Volume 10, a collection of works that date from 1973 through 2005 and include cultural figures like the writers Saul Bellow and Judy Blume, the architect Frank Gehry, the sculptor Louise Nevelson, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Harvard law professor Alan M Dershowitz.
And I thought the Dersh was the height of Jewish culture. What do I know?
Won’t Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg be pleased to be snuggling-close to Harvard law professor Alan M Dershowitz?
Freud, Einstein, Marx, Primo Levi, Spinosa. Maimonides, Mendelssohn, Messiaen and — The Dersh! Whatta joke. How about Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel?
The Posen Foundation sponsors a Judaic studies program at the University of Miami in which one of the readings is Dershowitz’s “The Vanishing American Jew”.
Also a program at the University of Michigan in which one of the readings is Dershowitz’s “Are Critics of Israel Anti-Semitic?”, from The Case for Israel.