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Center for Jewish Studies

Center for Jewish Studies

Our Mission and Vision

At the Center for Jewish Studies, we are dedicated to exploring the important questions about Jewish history and culture from antiquity to the modern age. Our acclaimed faculty, path-breaking research, expanding undergraduate program, and focus on deepening ties within the University attest to the success and ongoing promise of our mission: to foster a new understanding of Jewish culture and history.

We support the academic study of the historical, cultural, linguistic, ethnic, geographic, and religious diversity of the full range of peoples who identify themselves as Jewish, while fulfilling the educational mission of the liberal arts to promote critical thought, reflection on values, and analysis of sources.

Congratulations to Riv-Ellen Prell, Professor of American Studies and Jewish Studies faculty member, for her selection as the 2011 Marshall Sklare Memorial Award honoree. This is an award given by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ), recognizing the achievements of a senior scholar whose scholarly work has made a great impact on the social scientific study of Jewry.

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