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On September 27, 2024, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard invited colleagues, friends, and family to honor Shaye J. D. Cohen, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, at his retirement. On July 1, 2025, Professor Cohen’s retirement has taken effect. Below is a tribute from his…

The CJS main office at the HMANE (6 Divinity Ave.) will be closed for in-person visits this week  Wednesday-Friday, June 25-6.27 because of building maintenance. We will be available by email, and our Vanserg office will operate as usual all week. The main office will reopen on Monday, 6.30 at 9:00 am….

The CJS extends its congratulations to Professor Hannah Marcus for this wonderful achievement! Hannah Marcus is Professor of the History of Science in the Department of the History of Science and the Faculty Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University. She is a member of the CJS Executive Committee. Her research…

The CJS is happy to present a recording of the talk by Elad Lapidot: “Emmanuel Levinas and Decolonial Jewish Thought.” The event was co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and Harvard Divinity School This event was held in-person at Harvard Divinity School on April 17, 2025….

The CJS is happy to present a recording of the Symposium on Transmitting Indigenous, Vulnerable, and Endangered Languages. The event was co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights,(EMR), and the Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard. This event was held in-person at…

The Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School invites you to a talk with: Dr. Micah Goodman, Israeli scholar, author, philosopher, and current Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem Join the HKS for a conversation between MEI Faculty Chair Professor Tarek Masoud and Dr. Micah Goodman, Israeli scholar, author, philosopher, and current Research Fellow…

The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) invites you to a book talk: Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine A book talk by Marina Sapritsky-Nahum, Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London. Wednesday, May 7, 5:00-6:30 pm CGIS-Knafel Building, 2nd Floor Room K-2621737 Cambridge Street…

The CJS extends its congratulations to Professor Annette Yoshiko Reed for this wonderful achievement! Professor Reed, Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and a member of the CJS’s Executive Committee, was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship along with two other Harvard professors: Christopher Muller, Professor of Sociology, and Katarina…

The CJS congratulates Julia Tellides ’24 for the publication of her thesis in the the Harvard Judaica Collection Student Research Papers Series. Julia’s paper, Defending “The Jerusalem of the Balkans”: Resilience and Disempowerment in Interwar Jewish Thessaloniki is available digitally and in print upon request. For further details see the Harvard Judaica Newsletter….