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CommunityBrandeis supports numerous forums for dealing with the complex challenges facing Jewish communities today. Public conferences and lectures and print and Internet publications inform and help define issues, shape opinions and educate the public on the most significant Jewish topics of the day. > more | OpportunityWhether students have no previous background in Jewish studies or have been immersed in them during pre-collegiate years, in Brandeis classes students learn to approach the study of texts, historical materials, and traditional societal values and behaviors from a critical and dispassionate perspective. > more | JusticeReinforced by the well-known Judaic concept of tikkun olam – the idea that humankind is charged morally with repairing the world – Brandeis has from its founding embraced the struggle for social justice. This focus and emphasis on social justice has long been a magnet for incoming students. > more | ||||||||
Exploring Judaism's Rich History and Culture | ||
Brandeis University offers an extremely broad array of courses, training programs and research centers that explore Jewish history, societies and cultures, political and communal concerns, and texts, literatures and artistic expressions from ancient times to the present. The university’s faculty represents diverse disciplines. Brandeis students can encounter over 3,000 years of the Jewish experience with scholars of the Bible and ancient civilizations, rabbinics, American Jewish history and sociology of contemporary Jewish communities. They can learn about medieval Judaism in the Christian and Muslim worlds, and Jews in the Ottoman Empire, early modern Italy, Eastern Europe and Russia. They confront the multicultural nature of Jewish studies in Sephardic studies, Israel studies, Hebrew literature, American Jewish literature, Holocaust studies, Yiddish literature, Jewish film, theater and other arts, women’s and gender studies, and Jewish education. > MORE |