The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies invites applications for the 2023-2024 Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica The Starr fellowships for 2023-24 will be available to scholars working on topics related to Jewish migration in the sixteenth through twenty-first centuries. Application Deadline: Friday, January 6, 2023 For detailed information on how to apply visit our…
J-term and Spring 2023 fellowship application process now open
Attention Graduate and Undergraduate Harvard students! The CJS is pleased to announce that the application process has opened for J-term and Spring research and study fellowships. For detailed information on how to apply visit our Fellowships and Prizes page. The deadline for submitting your application, project proposal, itemized budget, and letter of recommendation (should be uploaded by the…
Zoe Beenstock: “Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine.”
The Mahindra Humanities Center’s Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies will present the following talk on October 27, 6:00 P.M.: Professor Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa “Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine.” Zoe Beenstock is associate professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Haifa. She is the author of The Politics of Romanticism: The Social Contract…
Recording Available: “Black and Jewish Voices” Series | Shula Mola: “I was not black, I became black here”: Formation of Blackness in Israel
Dr. Shula Mola presented her fascinating talk on September 12, 2022. If you missed it, a recording is now available on our website….
Happy Jewish New Year!
The Center for Jewish Studies would like to wish all of you a happy, healthy new year! L’Shanah Tova!…
Congratulations Sandy Cantave Vil!
Please Join us in congratulating Sandy Cantave Vil. Sandy has been approved for a well-deserved and long-overdue job upgrade; she is now our Program Coordinator! Sandy’s duties remain the same, but this new title (and higher job grade) reflect the growth in the complexity of her responsibilities over the years we have been fortunate enough…
Yeshiva University announces a conference marking the 25th Yahrzeit of Rabbi Professor Yitzhak (Isadore) Twersky
Understanding Halakhah, History,and Spirituality Yeshiva UniversityBernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies A conference marking the 25th Yahrzeit ofRabbi Professor Yitzhak (Isadore) Twerskyand the publication of his collected writings Ke-Ma`ayan ha-Mitgabber:Law and Spirit in Medieval Jewish ThoughtSunday September 11, 2022 / 15 Elul 5782Wilf Campus / Furst Hall / 500 W. 185th Street / Suite…
Jewish Studies Fall 2022 Courses Page is now Live!
Not sure which Jewish Studies course you’d like to take? Contemplating what would be your best choice of language to study? For a complete listing, visit our Fall 2022 Courses webpage: https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/academics/courses/courses-fall-2022/…
The CJS welcomes Visiting Professors Miriam Goldstein and Scott Ury
The CJS extends a warm welcome to our Visiting Professors for the 2022-2023 academic year: Professor Miriam Goldstein, Gerard Weinstock Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will be teaching JEWISHST 156 – The Cairo Genizot and their Literature Professor Scott Ury, Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer of…
Standing together against hatred and violence
The CJS would like to share with you this message from Harvard’s President Lawrence Bacow to last week’s anonymously-sent messages to a group of LGBTQ+ Harvard affiliates. These disturbing messages, received by some Harvard students, faculty and staff, included a litany of homophobic slurs…