Jewish Studies at Stanford

The Taube Center for Jewish Studies offers an interdisciplinary program for the study and understanding of Jewish cultures, literatures, languages, religion, politics, and history.

The Taube Center’s mission includes three goals:

  • To promote research and the production of outstanding scholarship

  • To offer Stanford students the opportunity to study Jewish history, Hebrew, Yiddish and other Jewish languages and literatures, Talmudic Studies, and Sephardic Studies

  • To serve as an intellectual resource for the broader community

Featured Courses

Spring
  • Nunez, A. (PI)
Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Spring
  • Zipperstein, S. (PI)
Thursday 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Spring
  • Daniels, J. (PI)
Tuesday Thursday 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

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March
31
Date
Thu March 31st 2022, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location
Stanford Law School

The Stanford Center for Law and History, the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, and Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies are hosting a…

News

Congratulations to Taube Center graduate, Ilana Horowitz (PhD in Education and Jewish Studies, 2018), for her recent op-ed in the New York Times!
Lehrhaus Judaica has returned as New Lehrhaus, the Bay Area hub for adult Jewish learning. We are happy to promote these free courses taught by premier scholars across the Bay Area including upcoming courses with Stanford's own faculty members Steven J. Zipperstein and Charlotte Fonrobert. 
American Jewish historian Lila Corwin-Berman visits the Taube Center for Jewish Studies and is featured in the J.! Read the article here >>