Program In Judaic News Today

Join the Program in Judaic Studies for this year's Rose and Isaac Ebel Lecture with Iuliia Skubytska on Thursday, February 22. War brings loss. Loss of people, loss of heritage, loss of memory. In this context, preservation becomes an act of resistance to pervasive and overwhelming destruction. It also becomes an act of documenting a new reality, the one that emerges as the war profoundly transforms people’s lives, landscapes, water, air, and soil. In her lecture, Dr. Iuliia Skubytska wil...

Join the Program in Judaic Studies for this year's Kwartler Family Lecture with Sarit Kattan Gribetz on Tuesday, December 5. Abstract According to the first-century historian Josephus Flavius, Queen Helena of Adiabene traveled from northern Mesopotamia to Jerusalem because she loved the Jewish God and wished to worship in the temple. Helena became a beloved patron of Jerusalem, feeding its residents during famine and erecting monumental buildings, including a palace and a mausoleum. Late an...

The collection includes more than 2,700 original books, atlases, pamphlets, newspapers and magazines relating to human and political rights, liberty, and independence around the time of the American Revolution.

Fourteen Ukrainian and Russian scholars affected by the war in Ukraine have found safety and intellectual shelter at Princeton.

Sheinerman is concentrating in history and pursuing a certificate in Russian, East European and Eurasian studies. She is editor in chief of The Prince, and as an intern at The Miami Herald was part of the team awarded a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Surfside condominium collapse.   

Sixteen Princeton University faculty members were transferred to emeritus status earlier this year by the Board of Trustees.

When Judah Goldin was named Duke’s first chair of Jewish Studies in 1943, the program was housed in the Graduate School. Twenty-nine years later, the Center for Jewish Studies was established—thanks to two visionaries, two universities and a host of generous donors. Today, as the Center for Jewish Studies celebrates its golden anniversary, it has become a world-renowned interdisciplinary program offering an undergraduate certificate in Jewish Studies and supporting master’s and doctoral ca...

Princeton professors Martha Himmelfarb and Simon Morrison have received the University’s Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.

April 12, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Christine Hayes Christine Hayes, a scholar of classical rabbinic Judaism specializing in Talmudic-midrashic studies and Jewish law in late antiquity, has been appointed the Sterling Professor of Religious Studies, effective Feb 20. The Sterling Professorship is awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his or her field and is one of the university’s hig...

Four Princeton faculty members awarded NEH grants Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications Dec. 21, 2020 9:24 a.m. Four Princeton faculty members have received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Alison Isenberg, professor of history, received a $30,000 grant for research and writing “Uprisings: The Impact of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination and the Case of Trenton, New Jersey," a book on unrest in Trenton, New Jersey, in the aftermath of the a...