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Jewish Studies
In 1994, Waltzer began working with
Steve Weiland to develop a Jewish
studies program at MSU. Weiland
would become program director in
1995, with Waltzer taking the reins in
2004. Yael Aronoff, the Michael and
Elaine Serling and Friends Chair in
Israel Studies, became the director in
August 2014.
"There was no program, not
enough faculty!' Waltzer says of what
passed for Jewish studies before. "It's
probably the proudest thing that we
were creating something important
and leaving something of value for
MSU."
Building Jewish studies meant
developing its purpose and program,
garnering support on campus and
raising money. Weiland gives serious
credit to Waltzer for helping make it
happen.
"One of the great things about Ken
is that he is always ready to respond
to opportunities!' Weiland says,
recalling an example
from the late 1990s
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looking for donors.
"A promising candi-
date told us to 'think
big: We went down
the elevator and out
Steve Weiland
to my car — and
then stood there for
an hour while Ken
sketched what would be the concep-
tual foundation for the Jewish stud-
ies program to this day. We still kid
about our 'parking lot' program:'
Moving beyond European Jewish
history, the MSU program would
focus on the United States and Israel
as the two centers of modern Jewish
history. This meant having four pil-
lars: American Jewish history, Israel
studies, Judaism and Jewish thought,
and Hebrew. An annual Israel Film
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Series and a study-abroad component
soon followed.
Weiland credits Waltzer for the
Israel studies component of the pro-
gram, which began in 1998.
Following a presentation at Hebrew
University in Jerusalem on a trip to
develop an innovative Study in Israel
Program tailored to MSU, Weiland
says, "We walked out into the hall
and Ken said let's stay right here for a
while. And he came up with the ratio-
nale and structure for what we began
the following year and maintain to
this day as our 'hallway' program!'
Both the personal and professional
connections with Israel are relatively
new for Waltzer, who traveled to
Israel for the first time in 1995.
"Initially, I read modern Jewish
history in a unilinear way, Europe to
America and trained as an immigra-
tion historian!' he says. "Today, I read
it in a more complex multi-centered
way, with North America and Israel
the two centers of post-Holocaust
modern Jewish history"
He's now been to Israel eight times,
three times to teach and others to
research, lecture and negotiate MSU's
Israel program.
These days it's not uncommon
to see a Facebook post or share
from Waltzer challenging, expos-
ing and deconstructing the Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
movement and others that target or
threaten Israel's existence, or express-
ing empathy for both Jews and Arabs
caught up in the violence.
"I'm working with good people on
the left against the anti-Zionist left!' he
says of his activism in academic circles
and with the new movement, The
Third Narrative. "I'm working against
BDS full-time, full-stop, with every-
thing that I have. We're anti-BDS, anti-
occupation and for active, aggressive
promotion of a two-state solution:'