Jewish Studies at the University of Virginia

We are an interdisciplinary program drawing on more than thirty affiliated scholars from religious studies, history, anthropology, sociology, literature, music and other fields.​ With courses in the history, languages and literatures of the Jewish people in the Diaspora and in Israel, the beliefs, thought and practices of Judaism, the interaction between Jews and other peoples and Israeli history and memory.  

We offer a Jewish Studies Minor and Major in a thriving undergraduate environment as well as master and doctoral degrees in Jewish Textuality, Practice and Modern Thought through the Department of Religious Studies.