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Lewis R. Gordon , Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Connecticut, will deliver a metaphilosophical talk about Afro-Jewish philosophy.
Thursday, March 12, 4:00pm, in-person
Please join us in welcoming our Spring 2026 academic visitors.
Click below to see our current Visiting Faculty, Starr Fellows, and Silver Fellow.
The Center for Jewish Studies wishes all of you a fruitful and enjoyable time at Harvard!
Raphael Cormack, Assistant Professor, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, United Kingdom
In conversation with Jessica Marglin and Adam Mestyan, NELC, Harvard
February 18, 12:00pm, on Zoom, registration is required!
Spring 2026 Talks at the CJS
Visit our website to to learn about some exciting talks the CJS will be hosting this spring!
The Center for Jewish Studies Wishes you and yours a happy holiday season and a wonderful new year.
Our offices and all other Harvard University offices will be closed for Winter Recess from Wednesday, 12.24.25 to Friday, 1.2.26.
We will resume regular hours on Monday, 1.5.2026.
websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/12/...
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Nathan Littauer Professorship of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, we are pleased to announce the online publication A Centennial of Jewish Studies at Harvard.
Happy Thanksgiving!
The Center for Jewish Studies will be closed for the holiday
Wednesday – Friday, November 26-28. We will resume regular hours of operation on Monday, December 1, at 9:00 a.m.
Sarit Kattan Gribetz | “A Queen in Jerusalem: Helena of Adiabene and the Malleability of Memory”
Monday, December 1 2025, 4:00 pm
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Room 201
The CJS 2024-2025 Annual Review is available online!
The issue highlights academic scholarship and activities in the Center over the past year:
A NEW message from Director Penslar
Faculty News
Visitor News
Alumni News
Lectures and Events
Academics
Student News and Prizes
Student activity Reports
Spring 2026 Course Registration is Now Open!
Check out ALL Jewish studies courses for the Spring 2026 semester in one place.
Congratulations to Noah Feldman, named Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor!
Professor Feldman is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, chair of the Society of Fellows, founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, and a member of the CJS Executive Committee.
On October 16 the CJS hosted New York Times Opinion Columnist Michelle Goldberg for a conversation with our Director, Professor Derek Penslar.
Read The Harvard Gazette’s coverage of the event.
The CJS @ Harvard 2026-2027 Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellowship application process now open
Applicants must be active members of the clergy who have demonstrated intellectual and academic ability, interest and energy in pursuit of Jewish studies scholarship
Application Deadline: January 15, 2026
The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies invites applications for the 2026-2027 Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica
The Starr fellowships for 2026-27 will be available to scholars working on topics related to Jewish Philosophy.
Application Deadline: Thursday, January 15, 2026
Dr. Ani Avetisyan | “Between Script and Community: Judaeo-Arabic Medical Manuscripts of the Matenadaran Collection (Republic of Armenia)”
November 11, 2025
5:30-7:00 pm
HMANE (formerly the Semitic Museum) room 201, 6 Divinity Ave.
To Harvard Students:
Jewish Studies Spring 2026 Courses Page is Live!
Not sure which Jewish studies course to take? Can’t find what’s available? Looking for a language class?
Browse our Spring 2026 Courses webpage for a complete list of Harvard’s Jewish studies course offerings.
Congratulations to Professor Paul Kosmin
for winning the American Historical Association 2025 Prize in History Prior to CE 1000 for his book The Ancient Shore (Harvard University Press, 2024).
Unabridged 2026 – A Library Research Intensive for graduate students post-docs, fellows, and faculty is now accepting applications.
Find out more:
Fall events at the CJS:
10.16, 4:00 pm
Michelle Goldberg
10.20, 5:30 pm
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
11.4, 4:15 pm
Steven J. Zipperstein
11.12, 6:00 pm
Etgar Keret
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 HARRY AND CECILE STARR PRIZES IN JEWISH STUDIES!
Read the abstracts on our website.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 SELMA AND LEWIS WEINSTEIN PRIZE IN JEWISH STUDIES!
Read the abstracts on our website.
Please join us in welcoming our Fall 2025 academic visitors.
Visiting Faculty, Harry Starr Fellows, and other academic visitors can be found on our website:
Upcoming Events at CJS
September 16, 2025
Michelle Goldberg in Conversation with Derek Penslar
October 20, 2025
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen | “The Healing Power of Stories”
November 4, 2025
Steven J. Zipperstein | “Philip Roth: Stung by Life”
November 12, 2025
Etgar Keret | “Words without Borders”
“The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liberalism”
a symposium sponsored by the
Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at the Harvard Law School
*September 16, 2025*
Professor Shaye Cohen has retired.
Read a tribute from his colleague, Jay Harris, Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies.
The CJS congratulates Rachel Rockenmacher, our Executive Director, for being recognized a 2025 Harvard Hero!
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The CJS congratulates Prof. Hannah Marcus on receiving the Dan David Prize!
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