Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies

The Center for Jewish Studies gathers faculty, students, and visiting academics for research and debate across the wide scholarly landscape of Jewish Studies. The Center builds upon UC Berkeley's long tradition of exemplary work in the field, with a faculty comprised of professors from the disciplines of Comparative Literature, Near Eastern Studies, History, Sociology, Law, Political Science, Journalism, Rhetoric, and Music. The Center is a diverse interdisciplinary campus unit, offering both a "Designated Emphasis in Jewish Studies" for PhD students and a "Minor in Jewish Studies" for undergrads. The Center also sponsors an annual series of Endowed Lectures, and hosts Post-Doctoral Visiting Scholars and Visiting Faculty that augment both course offerings and public lectures.

We at the Center are truly humbled by the opportunity to share this ever growing body of rigorous, thought-provoking work across the UC Berkeley campus and with the larger Jewish Studies community.