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 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…
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…
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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 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….
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 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….
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 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,…
