Exploring History. Interpreting Text. Understanding Cultures.
Our Mission
Our mission is to foster research and scholarship in Judaic studies, enrich undergraduate and graduate education in Judaic studies as part of a general liberal arts education, and provide resources for continuing education and community service. Through creative scholarship, undergraduate and graduate courses, scholarly lectures, and community events, we intend to pursue empirical, historical, literary, philosophical, and theoretical approaches to the field of Judaic studies.
The Judaic Studies Experience
Programming
Enrich students and the community through sponsorship of programming initiatives, lectures, and cultural events.
Academics
Expand knowledge in the literatures and cultures of the Jewish people through our interdisciplinary academic coursework.
Study Abroad
Students may spend a semester or academic year at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, or other universities.
Connections
The Center actively works with many departments, centers, programs, and institutes across the University on instructional, research, and programming initiatives in areas of shared interest. Faculty affiliated with the Center also have formal working relationships with several institutions of higher learning in Israel, including the University of Haifa, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the University of Tel Aviv.