Congratulations to Professor Adam Teller whose book, entitled "Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century", has received an Honorable Mention for this year’s Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies awarded by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the best book in any discipline on any aspect of Polish affairs.

Professor Adam Teller, Professor of Judaic Studies and History, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR).

Professor Saul M. Olyan, Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies has been recognized with a Festschrift.

Congratulations to Professor Adam Teller whose new book “Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century” was just named a finalist for a national Jewish book award in the history category.

Professor Adam Teller launches (virtually) his new book entitled "Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century."

Tablet magazine writer, Roklh Kafrissen, published an article on April 7, 2020 entitled “Rokhl’s Golden City: How a brawl in Tel Aviv changed the theater scene in New York, and why Israeli soldiers are speaking Yiddish to fight COVID-19.”

Professor Saul M. Olyan, Director of the Program in Judaic Studies and Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR).

Professor Adam Teller, Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Brown University, has published a new book with Princeton University Press.

Professor Adam Teller presented a lecture, at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, entitled "The Reconstruction of Jewish Life after the Chmielnicki uprising 1648" which tackled the question of how Polish-Lithuanian Jewry succeeded in overcoming so quickly the terrible devastation of the mid-seventeenth century uprising.

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 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.

On 9 November 2018, Saul Olyan delivered an invited lecture at the Collège de France in Paris entitled "Les droits des animaux existent-ils selon la Bible hébraïque?" 

Professor Michael Satlow, Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies, has published a book, with Routledge, entitled "Judaism and the Economy."

Professor Katharina Galor returns to teach Ancient Synagogues, Churches, and Mosques in Palestine, JUDS 1670, CRN17238, M 3pm-5:30pm in Sayles Hall 200. Come check it out. 

Welcome Professor Jonathan Decter, Hirschfeld Presidential Scholar, fall 2018.  He will be teaching Jews in the World of Islam, JUDS 1750, CRN 17044, Th 4pm-6:30pm in Friedman Hall 201. 

Professor Olyan delivers a lecture entitled "Quelques associations culturelles positives de la vieillesse dans la Bible hébraïque" at the Collège de France symposium "Vieillir et être vieux dans le Proche Orient ancien" on May 22, 2017.

Mary Gluck, Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies, is awarded the 2015-2017 Hungarian Studies Association Book Prize for her book entitled “The Invisible Jewish Budapest”.

Judaic Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Lawrence Wills as Visiting Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies.

Professor Adam Teller, Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, has published a book entitled “Money, Power, and influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania: The Jews on the Radziwill Estates.”  

Professors Ruth Adler Ben-Yehuda and David C. Jacobson co-chaired the National Association of Professors of Hebrew at Brown University this June 2016.