YKS 2022 | Ilan Stavans - "A Tourist Guide through Heaven and Hell: How Jews Envision the Afterlife"
YKS 2021 | Aimée Israel-Pelletier - "On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt"
YKS 2020 | Pamela Nadell: "America's Jewish Women"
YKS 2019 | Luis Cortest: "Why Philo Matters?"
YKS 2018 | James Diamond: "Do We All Serve the Same God, the First 'Commandment'"
YKS 2017 | John Efron: "German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic"