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Welcome
to the Jewish Studies Program at Barnard!
The
Barnard College Program in Jewish Studies is a dual-major program that
enables undergraduates to acquire a thorough knowledge of the most important
aspects of Jewish culture, civilization, and history in an interdisciplinary
setting. The purpose of the program is to help the student identify
resources for constructing rigorously detailed and methodological majors.
The program begins from the assumption that a meaningful major can be
most profitably
framed in one of the existing departments—such as, but not limited
to, American Studies,
Ancient Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Asian and Middle Eastern
Cultures, Classics,
Comparative Literature, English, History, Music, Religion, Sociology,
and Women’s
Studies. The program director works with the student to ensure that
the subject matter of that major contains enough interest in Jewish
subjects and is rigorous enough in methodology.
This
program is supervised by the Committee on Jewish Studies:
Ingeborg Rennert Professor of Jewish Studies: Alan F. Segal, Director
Professor of Sociology: Jonathan Rieder
Professor of History: Deborah Valenze
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