In addition to hosting an undergraduate major, training graduate students, and building a thriving intellectual community on campus, Yale’s Program in Jewish Studies also collaborates with units across the university and draws on the university’s long and deep engagement with Judaism to further the study of Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture.
Ladino palm-reading manuscript from Yale’s Judaica collection
The Program supports programs in Biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, and Yiddish and works closely with the Judaica library collection and staff. It also partners with Yale University Press to publish books in Jewish Studies, including translations of classic Jewish writings.
The Program regularly brings to campus Postdoctoral Associates, Visiting Faculty, and Research Scholars.
The Program in Jewish Studies often partners with the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (housed in the Whitney Humanities Center), the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (housed at Yale Libraries), and the Brodie Center for Jewish and Israeli Law (housed at Yale Law School), along with a wide range of departments and programs across the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Jewish Studies across Campus
Jewish history from antiquity to the modern period can be found across campus: artifacts from the third-century Dura Europos synagogue at the Yale Art Gallery, coins from Jerusalem in the Numismatics Collection, early modern editions of Philo and Josephus at the Beinecke and Divinity School Special Collections, and much more!
