201 Milbank Hall
854-8291
http://jewish.barnard.edu/jewish-studies
Acting Chair: Beth Berkowitz, Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies
Other Officers of the University:
Jeremy Dauber (Atran Associate Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture and Director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies), Elisheva Carlebach (Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History), Arthur A. Goren (Russell Knapp Professor of American Jewish History), Dan Miron (Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature), Michael Stanislawski (Nathan Miller Professor of Jewish History), Samuel Moyn (Professor of History), Yinon Cohen (Yosef H. Yerushalmi Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies), Seth Schwartz (Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization),Gil Anidjar (Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature), Uri S. Cohen (Assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature), Rebecca Kobrin (Assistant Professor of History), Jonathan Schorsch (Assistant Professor of Religion), Tamar Ben-Vered (Lecturer of Hebrew Language), Nehama Bersohn (Lecturer in Hebrew Language), Ruth Raphaeli (Senior Lecturer of Hebrew Language), Miriam Hoffman (Lecturer in Yiddish), Reena Kreitman (Lecturer in Hebrew Language) Reeva Simon (Assistant Director Middle East Institute)
The program in Jewish Studies enables undergraduates to acquire a thorough knowledge of the most important aspects of Jewish culture, civilization, and history in an interdisciplinary setting. The purpose of the program is to help the student identify resources for constructing rigorously detailed and methodological majors.
The program begins from the assumption that a meaningful major can be most profitably framed in one of the existing departments-such as, but not limited to, American Studies, Ancient Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Classics, Comparative Literature, English, History, Music, Religion, Sociology, and Women's Studies. The program director would then certify that the subject matter of that major contains enough interest in Jewish subjects and is rigorous enough in methodology.
