Drs. Cryshanna Jackson Leftwich and Adam Fuller Team Up To Give Lunch and Learn at JCC
On Thursday, January 15, CJHS director Dr. Adam Fuller will give a co-talk at the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown as a lunch and learn. The talk, titled “From Exodus to Freedom Rides: Jewish and Black Americans Marching Together for Civil Rights” will address the relationship between Jewish and African American civil rights movements, particularly in the 1960s. The event is sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Click here to read Youngstown State University’s press release.
Dr. Fuller Writes Eulogy for Norman Podhoretz
Dr. Adam Fuller’s eulogy for Jewish intellectual, Norman Podhoretz, appeared in the Jewish Journal.
Read the article here.
Dr. Adam Fuller Writes on Jewish Heroism in Yiddish Pulp Literature in The Jewish Journal
CJHS Director’s op-ed, “Stories of Jewish Heroism and the ‘Yiddish Sherlock Holmes’” was featured in The Jewish Journal on December 4, 2025.
You can read Dr. Fuller’s article here.
Dr. Adam Fuller Writes About Jewish Self-Defense Organizations in The Jewish Journal
CJHS Director’s op-ed, “The Rise of Jewish Self-Defense Organizations” was featured in The Jewish Journal on November 5, 2025.
You can read Dr. Fuller’s article here.
Dr. Adam Fuller’s Book “The Armed Jew” Featured in the Jewish News Syndicate
The Armed Jew: The Case For Jewish Gun Ownership was featured in the Jewish News Syndicate:
Dr. Adam Fuller’s Book Praised in Magazine, ‘Polyhymnia’
Clayman Professor Adam Fuller’s new book, The Armed Jew: The Case for Jewish Gun Ownership, was praised and recommended by the magazine, Polyhymnia, in a review, titled, “If Not Now, When?”
Kyle Starkey, Jesse McClain, and Adam Fuller Take Students to US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC
The 2025 annual bus trip to Washington, DC to visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum was led by History professor Kyle Starkey, English adjunct Jesse McClain, and Political Science professor Adam Fuller on October 12. Two full busses brought YSU students and a few faculty members to DC to tour the national museum to learn about the Shoah. Kyle Starkey’s HIST 3788 (“The Holocaust”) students attended as part of a class project. Students across the university also attended. Political Science professor Cryshanna Jackson-Leftwich and Sociology professor Amanda Fehlbaum also joined the trip this year. The Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies sponsors the USHMM bus trip annually, so if you missed out getting a seat this time, there will be more ahead.
