We are accepting applications for fall 2022 graduate student research awards.

The Program in Judaic Studies is accepting applications for undergraduate and graduate student research awards for spring 2022.

The Program in Judaic Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of the Fall 2021 graduate student research awards.

The Program in Judaic Studies is accepting submissions for the Undergraduate Essay Prize.

Graduate Student Research Grants - fall 2021.

Brown Judaic Studies (BJS) announces the launch of our Open Access Books program.

Read the Watson Institute article about our February 9-10, 2020 conference entitled "Gender in Israeli and Palestinian Film"

Excerpts from the fall 2019 CLS Language Panel show students discussing what it means to study Hebrew at Brown University.

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.

Essays that engage the scholarship of Shaye J. D. Cohen

Brown Judaic Studies has published a new monograph entitled "The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World" (Geoffrey Herman and Jeffrey Rubenstein, editors), produced and distributed by the Society of Biblical Literature.

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.

Brown Judaic Studies has published a new monograph entitled  "When Texts Are Canonized" (Timothy H. Lim, editor), produced and distributed by the Society of Biblical Literature.  

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

A message from Professor Michael Satlow about Judaic Studies Book Discussion Group:

In recognition of a $3.5 million gift made by Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld to support the renovation and ongoing maintenance of Brown University's Judaic Studies Building, the University has renamed the building, at 163 George Street, the "Hirschfeld House."

Professor David Jacobson is offering a Wintersession course, UNIV 1001 - The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Contested Narratives, which will include course study and travel to Israel and Palestine.