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Harvard Judaica at 60
When Charles Berlin ’58, Ph.D. ’63 was a 26-year-old grad student, he became the bibliographer in Judaica at Harvard’s Widener Library. This September marks Berlin’s 60th anniversary with the Judaica Division, the second largest collection of its kind in the world. Read Harvard Magazine’s feature article, “A Moral Obligation,” about the Judaica Collection and Charles…
The CJS welcomes Benjamin Dunning to its Executive Committee
The CJS extends a warm welcome to Benjamin Dunning, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Harvard Divinity School, and a member of the Center’s Executive Committee. He teaches primarily in the areas of Christianity in Antiquity, critical theory, and gender and sexuality studies….
Arie Krampf reflects on his Spring ’22 teaching experience at Harvard
The Political Economy of Israel, a Reflection During the Spring Semester of the 2021-2022 academic year, I served as Rohr Visiting Professor at the Department of Government and the Center of Jewish Studies at Harvard University. I taught a course on “The Political Economy of Israel: Ideology, Security, Economy”. When I designed the syllabus for…
The CJS welcomes Annette Yoshiko Reed to its Executive Committee
The CJS extends a warm welcome to Annette Yoshiko Reed, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Harvard Divinity School, and a member of the Center’s Executive Committee. Her research spans Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity, with a special concern for retheorizing religion, identity, and difference….
Derek Penslar wins AIS Award
Congratulations to Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, for winning the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) Lifetime Achievement Award 2022. The AIS Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a senior scholar in any field of Israel Studies whose lasting and path-breaking contributions have significantly shaped the field. …
New Harvard Judaica Student Research Papers
New Harvard Judaica Student Research Papers are now available online or in print. Latest papers include: The Holocaust in American Jewish Life: Redefining Memory, Community and Activism, 1960-1976 by Raya Koreh ’18 The Impact of Experience on Israeli Entrepreneurial Success by Max August ’20 Friends or foes?: Palestinian Arabs in the Eyes of American Women Zionists,…
CJS announces recipients of 2022 Harry and Cecile Starr Prizes in Jewish Studies
The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 Harry and Cecile Starr Prizes in Jewish Studies. Shoshana F. Boardman ’22, a senior in Winthrop House, and Jonathan Louis Katzman ’22, a senior in Dunster House, won the Starr Prize for their exceptional senior theses. Shoshana, a…
CJS announces recipients of 2022 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies
The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies. Shoshana F. Boardman ’22, a senior in Winthrop House, was awarded first place for her essay “Babylonian Incantation Bowl Onomastics.” Sonia F. Epstein ’22, a senior from Eliot House, submitted…
Welcome to our 2022-2023 Fellows
Please join us in welcoming our 2022-2023 Fellows. The Starr Fellows are recent Ph.D. recipients working on topics in Jewish Studies and the Arts, including History of Art and Architecture, Visual Studies and Visuality, History of Music, and Ethnomusicological studies, Film Studies, History of Theater and Dance, Performance Studies. The Faculty co-hosts for this cohort are:…