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Yours in Struggle: African Americans and Jews in the 20th Century U.S.

JEWISHST 286D | MW 3:00PM-4:20PM | This colloquium explores the history of African Americans and Jews in 20th century US beginning with Jewish immigration from...

The Jewish-American Novel: Diaspora, Privilege, Anxiety, Comedy

JEWISHST 155J | TTh 10:30AM-11:50AM | Jews are sometimes referred to as "the people of the book." Would Portnoy's Complaint count as a book that...

Modern Jewish Mysticism: Devotion in a Secular Age

JEWISHST 125 | TTh 1:30PM - 2:50PM | The twentieth-century was a time of tremendous upheaval and unspeakable tragedy for the Jewish communities of Europe. But...

Blood and Money: The Origins of Antisemitism

JEWISHST 86Q | TTh 3:00PM - 4:20PM | For over two millennia, Jews and Judaism have been the object of sustained anxieties, fears, and fantasies, which have in...

"Writing History, Writing Biography: Capturing H.G. Adler's Many Worlds" with Peter Filkins |Th 9/26 | 4PM | Bldg. 260 Rm 252

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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

Academics

The Taube Center for Jewish Studies investigates all aspects of Jewish culture, history, religion, literature, language and education from biblical times to the present. Courses are offered on the undergraduate and graduate levels in a program complemented by a full range of guest lectures, conferences, and symposia.

Read more about the program here

Meet Our Students

our graduate students in jewish studies

Any Stanford graduate student from any discipline affiliated with the Taube Center or with an academic interest in Jewish Studies. Our graduate students come from the School of Humanities and Sciences departments, the Graduate School of Education, and the School of Law. We welcome all Stanford students!

Graduate Students