SJSU Jewish Studies Program

We are grateful for the generosity of foundations, individuals, and agencies. Major givers include:

Eli Reinhard

Eda and Joseph Pell

The purpose of Jewish education,
as our tradition states,
is "lilmod v'la'asot":
to learn and to do.

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SJSUJewish Studies

Jewish Studies seeks to help students explore the multicultural diversity and complexity of Jewish and Israeli culture, history, literature, religion, politics, philosophy, languages, art, and cinema as well as, throughout, to foster critical thinking within and across disciplines. As is true with any good learning, it seeks to enable learners to make the leap from knowledge to commitment and action.

An Interdisciplinary Program

Jewish Studies at SJSU is an interdisciplinary program crossing two colleges and eight departments: History, Religious Studies, English and Comparative Literatures, Hebrew language study, Art History, Political Science, Journalism and Mass Communications, and TV, Radio, Film and Theater.

Scholarships

Thanks to a generous gift from community member Sheri Sager, the Jewish Studies Program is able to award scholarships each semester to outstanding Jewish Studies students completing the minor program. (more...)