This exhibition of posters, which was displayed in the Rabin Building from November 2012 until January 2013, celebrated the first decade of Scholion. Scholion opened in 2002/3 as a joint project of the Mandel Foundation and the Hebrew University, at the initiative of their respective heads: Mr. Morton Mandel and Prof. Menachem Magidor, and under the directorship of Prof. Israel Yuval. It was created in order to foster interdisciplinary research in Jewish studies, and also to encourage the Hebrew University’s scholars in the humanities, who traditionally worked individually each in his or her own study, to make the University their place of work and thus build up a scholarly community for themselves, their colleagues, and their students. Each year, Scholion - whose mandate was expanded in 2011 to include the full gamut of the humanities - accepts, for three-year tenures, an eight member research group (four senior scholars and four doctoral students) and two Mandel Postdoctoral Fellows, so that at any given time there are thirty scholars at Scholion (three groups and six Mandel Fellows). The exhibition gave some idea of the issues addressed by the groups and the Fellows of the first decade, and also called attention to some of their accomplishments - including the dissertations and degrees completed by nearly all of the doctoral fellows, the prestigious academic appointments achieved by virtually all Mandel Fellows, the six volumes published (as the “Mandel Scholion Library”) by research groups, and more. It also looks forward to the near future, which will see Scholion moving into its new home as a central element of the new Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
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