 He served as President of the American Studies Association (1982–1984), and in 1986 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.He received Lifetime Achievement Awards from both the Modern Languages Association (2002,2004) and from the American Studies Association (2007).After his official retirement from an academic career, Bercovitch returned to his early interests in Jewish Studies (he has translated Sholom Aleichem and other Yiddish writers) and received an Emeritus Professor Grant from the Mellon Foundation for a project on "The Ashkenazi Renaissance, 1880-1940."