Frankel Center for Jewish Studies and Other Jewish-related Learning opportunities on Campus

The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University offers Jewish studies classes for credit. The Center employs an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Jewish civilizations and thought. Its programs and classes explore the rich culture and historical experience of the Jewish people, and their unique traditions, interactions with other cultures, and impact on world civilizations. Students benefit from the academic excellence and expertise of faculty in many departments, as well as academic advising, study abroad programs, lectures, exhibits and events.

For a list of current Jewish Studies Fall Courses click click here . Also for a list of upcoming lectures and talks by Frankel Center faculty check out the Frankel Center calendar and the Colloquia

In addition to the Jewish studies courses offered through the Frankel center, the Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies (HJCS)program (part of the Near Eastern Studies Department) offers a variety of courses as well.

Upcoming Frankel Center events

Monday, September 13
12:30 pm, 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022
Numerus Clausus Exiles: Jewish Students and the Quota System in Interwar Europe
Michael Miller, Central European University

Thursday, September 16
12 noon, Rooms A & B, Alumni Center
Turkic-Karaite Biblical Translations
Dan Shapira, Bar Ilan University

Wednesday, October 6
4 pm, 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022
Before and After Babel: Linguistic Exceptionalism and Pluralism in Early Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Antiquity
Steven Fraade, Yale University

Thursday, October 7
12 noon, Rooms A & B, Alumni Center
Language Use and Choice Among Jews in Postwar Warsaw, 1860-1939
Kalman Weiser, York University

Monday, October 11
12:30 pm, 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022
From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print
Neal Netanel, UCLA

Wednesday, October 13
4 pm, 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022
Jews and Muslims in Modern France: A Century of Coexistence and Conflict
Ethan Katz, University of Cincinnati

Monday, October 25
4 pm, International Institute, Room 1636
Auschwitz in the 21st Century
Piotr Cywinski, Director of Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

Tuesday, October 26
4 pm, 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022
The Bitter Taste of Success: Gendered Politics in Israel
Sarai Aharoni, Bar-Ilan University

Thursday, October 28
12 noon, Rooms A & B, Alumni Center
Communism, Publishing, and Paths to Polishness in Postwar Warsaw: A Case Study
Karen Auerbach, University of Southampton (UK)


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