Department of Jewish Studies, School of Arts and Sciences

Website: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu

Chair: Paola Tartakoff

Undergraduate Director: Michal Raucher

Core Faculty:

Paola Tartakoff, Jewish Studies and History; Ph.D., Columbia

Azzan Yadin-Israel, Jewish Studies; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Affiliated Faculty:

Debra Ballentine, Religion; Ph.D., Brown

Ethel Brooks, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ph.D., New York

Rebecca Cypess, Mason Gross School of the Arts-Music; Ph.D., Yale

Maurice Elias, Psychology; Ph.D., Connecticut

Leslie E. Fishbein, American Studies; Ph.D., Harvard

Judith Gerson, Sociology; Ph.D., Cornell

David Greenberg, Journalism; Ph.D., Columbia

Charles Haberl, AMESALL; Ph.D., Harvard

Paul Hanebrink, History; Ph.D., Chicago

Martha Helfer, German; Ph.D., Cornell

Michael Levine, German; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins

Emma Wasserman, Religion; Ph.D., Yale
 

The Department offers an interdisciplinary approach to the academic study of all aspects of the Jewish experience. Courses offered by the Department, which are open to all students, address the historical, social, cultural, religious and political life of the Jewish people from ancient times to the present. Drawing on faculty from eight departments, as well as on visiting fellows sponsored by the Bildner Center, the Jewish Studies curriculum offers over sixty interdisciplinary courses. Students pursuing a B.A. degree may major or minor in Jewish Studies. Students may also minor in Hebrew language . The Department of Jewish Studies and the Bildner Center work together to promote Jewish Studies at Rutgers.

Jewish studies offers courses that originate in the department and cross-listed courses that originate in other departments, both of which may be counted toward the Jewish studies major or minor. Credit is not given for both a Jewish studies course (01:563) and its corresponding cross-listed course.

For further information about the Department of Jewish Studies, contact the office, which is housed at the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 12 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1282 (telephone: 848-932-2033), or send an email to info@jewishstudies.rutgers.edu. Information is also posted on the department's website.