University of Iowa Community Remembers Longtime Professor Jay Holstein

University of Iowa community remembers longtime professor Jay Holstein

Jay Holstein died earlier this month. He was 87.

University of Iowa religious studies professor Jay Holstein dies

Hunter 11/24/25 Beloved religious studies professor at the University of Iowa, Jay Holstein, has passed away. He was 87 when he died in Ames after a brief illness on November 14th. According to a post on the Iowa Now website, Holstein joined Iowa in 1970 as an assistant professor in the School of Religion and was appointed the first J. J. Mallon Chair in Judaic Studies in 1982, a position that was reaffirmed in 2007. His scholarship centered on …