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A degree in Jewish studies enables students to analyze the civilizations of the Jewish people and their various cultural and religious expressions from the antiquity to the present. The Jewish Studies Program offers a major in Jewish studies, and minors in Jewish studies and in Israel studies. [22]
The Musar movement (also Mussar movement) is a Jewish ethical, educational and cultural movement that developed in 19th century Lithuania, particularly among Orthodox Lithuanian Jews. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Hebrew term Musar ( מוּסַר ) is adopted from the Book of Proverbs (1:2) describing moral conduct, instruction or discipline, educating ...
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Purdue University Press on behalf of the university's Jewish Studies Program. Shofar is the official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations. The journal publishes original, scholarly work and reviews a wide ...
S. Ilan Troen: founding director of the journal Israel Studies [47] Yaron Tsur: co-founder of the Open University of Israel [48] Chava Turniansky: winner of the Israel Prize for Jewish language and literature (2013) [49] Elliot R. Wolfson: winner of the American Academy of Religion Award (1995, 2012); winner of the National Jewish Book Award ...
Jewish education (Hebrew: חינוך, Chinuch) is the transmission of the tenets, principles, and religious laws of Judaism. Jews value education, and the value of education is strongly embedded in Jewish culture. [1] [2] Judaism places a heavy emphasis on Torah study, from the early days of studying the Tanakh.
In 1986, the AIS began to publish a scholarly journal, Israel Studies Review (ISR), published a few times a year by Berghahn Books. ISR explores modern and contemporary Israel from the perspective of the social sciences, history, the humanities, and cultural studies and welcomes submissions on these subjects.
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The Center for Cultural Judaism provides grants through the Posen Project for the study of secular Jewish history and cultures. These grants are intended to cultivate and support the interdisciplinary study of secular Jewish history and cultures within already well-established university programs and departments of Jewish studies, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and other related ...