We are delighted to announce that our generous benefactor Elie Hirschfeld, Brown class of 71, has been appointed to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.

Professor Saul M. Olyan, Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies, has published a book, with Oxford University Press, entitled “Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible."  

Professor Adam Teller (Brown University) presents a lecture entitled "From Amsterdam to Istanbul: Fundraising and Jewish Refugee Relief in the Seventeenth Century" as part of Birkbeck Arts Week 2019 on May 22, 2019 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm at Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL.  

The Providence-Jerusalem Exchange Fellowship Program will provide students from Brown University (Brown) and Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) with a year-long program of study focused on Israeli-Palestinian relations.

With support from a new grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, scholars from Brown University’s Judaic Studies program are set to begin digitizing much of the groundbreaking scholarship they have published in-house.

The Program in Judaic Studies is pleased to announce that Professor Paul Nahme has been awarded a Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica from Harvard University to undertake his research project entitled "Jewish Racial Affect in Weimar Germany"

The Program in Judaic Studies is pleased to announce that Professor Katharina Galor has been awarded a three-year grant from the Leo Baeck Foundation, Berlin (funded by the Schwarz-Schütte Foundation), to support research for her new book project: Gender and Temporality in Jewish Memory: A Visual and Material Cultural Analysis.