Program Overview

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Program Overview

The university program provides a comprehensive education in Jewish Studies, with a range of undergraduate and graduate programs available.

Undergraduate Programs

• Certificate Program in Jewish Studies
  • Spotlight on Undergraduates
• Majors with Judaica Focus
  • Religious Studies Major
  • History & German Majors
  • Hebrew Language

Graduate Studies

• Ph.D. Graduate Program in Religion
• M.A. in Religious Studies
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship
• Study Abroad

Courses

• All Courses
• Spring Courses 2026

People

• Affiliated Faculty
• Emeritus Faculty
• Post Docs
• Staff
• Graduate Students

Collections

The program has various collections available for research and study.

Funding and Opportunities

• Undergraduate Research Scholars Program
  • Seymour H. Shore Scholarship Program
  • Ostad Fellowship in Jewish Studies
    • Spotlight on Undergraduate Research: Elliott Davis
    • Spotlight on Undergraduate Research: Morghan Cyr
    • Spotlight on Undergraduate Research: Samantha Holmes
    • Spotlight on Undergraduate Research: Tyler Goldberger
• Library Research Awards in Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible
• Event Requests

Conferences and Events

• NAPH 2026: National Association of Professors of Hebrew Conference
  • Travel Information
• Celebrating Marc Brettler's Scholarship: The Bible in the Public Square Revisited
  • Celebrating Marc Brettler
  • Participants
  • Travel Information
• Workshop: Jewish Studies in the Aftermath of October 7
  • PARTICIPANTS
• INIRE: International Network for Interreligious Research and Education
  • INIRE 2023: In the Name of God: A Voice for War, a Call for Peace
    • Schedule
    • Location & Travel Information
    • What is INIRE?
    • CFP: INIRE 2023: In the Name of God: A Voice for War, a Call for Peace
  • INIRE 2022: Religion and Immigration
  • 2019 INIRE Summer School Reflections
• Academic Events
  • Common Ground Conference: Anti-Semitism, Zionism and Collaboration

NCJSS

• North Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar
• Leadership
• Previous Years
• Shatzmiller Fellows
  • Previous years

Specific Course: Jewish History, 1492 to the Present

JEWISHST 251

Major developments in Jewish history from the early modern period to today, including:

• The Kehillah
• The Spanish-Jewish Diaspora
• The rise of Polish Jewry
• The Safed Kabbalah
• Sabbatianism
• The emergence of the Chassidut
• The Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment)
• Emancipation and the nation state
• Reform Judaism
• Economic modernization
• Racial antisemitism
• Zionism
• The Holocaust
• The State of Israel
• Flourishing Jewish pluralism in the United States
• The future: nation and Diaspora?

Curriculum Codes

• CCI
• EI
• CZ
• SS

Cross-Listed As

• HISTORY 251
• ICS 253
• RELIGION 340

Typically Offered

Occasionally

Center for Jewish Studies

Located at 230 Gray Building, Campus Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708.

Academics

• Certificate Program
• Majors in Jewish Studies
• Hebrew Language
• Graduate Studies

Resources

• Collections
• News
• Events
• Videos of Past Lectures

About Us

• Overview
• Partners
  • Jewish Life at Duke
  • Humanities at Duke
  • Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina
  • Duke-Carolina Institute for Jewish Studies