Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies
The Center for Jewish Studies gathers faculty, students, and visiting academics for research and debate across the wide scholarly landscape of Jewish Studies. The Center builds upon UC Berkeley's long tradition of exemplary work in the field, with a faculty comprised of professors from the disciplines of Comparative Literature, Near Eastern Studies, History, Sociology, Law, Political Science, Journalism, Rhetoric, and Music. The Center is a diverse interdisciplinary campus unit, offering both a "Designated Emphasis in Jewish Studies" for PhD students and a "Minor in Jewish Studies" for undergrads. The Center also sponsors an annual series of Endowed Lectures, and hosts Post-Doctoral Visiting Scholars and Visiting Faculty that augment both course offerings and public lectures.
We at the Center are truly humbled by the opportunity to share this ever growing body of rigorous, thought-provoking work across the UC Berkeley campus and with the larger Jewish Studies community.
Diasporic Kitchens: Jewish-Mexican Recipes and Stories
Yiddish at UC Berkeley - Fall 2025
Jewish Narratives of Escape from Ukraine and Russia after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine 2022
Withstanding Reason: Shestov and Levinas in Times of Catastrophe
Modern Permutations of an Ancient Antisemitic Myth: The Blood Libel during the Holocaust
Transnational Visions: Israeli Discourse on Cinema
All Consuming: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat
Cosmopolitans, Zionists, & Elders of Zion: Anti-Jewish Tropes in the Soviet Union and its Aftermath
Jewish Narratives of Escape from Ukraine and Russia after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022
Psychoanalysis for Diabetics: Freud in the Popular Jewish Press
Historical Context Matters: Three Faces of Antisemitism Before and Since October 7
Happy Ottoman Purim! Commemorating Muslim Victories through Jewish Holidays, 1516-1860
Beyond Conflicts and Comparisons: A Conversation on Poetics and Politics in Palestine-Israel
Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism
Propaganda and Persecution: The French Resistance and the “Jewish Question”
The Satirical World of Dzigan and Schumacher, the Most Famous Yiddish Comedy Duo of the 20th Century
American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York
When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash
Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York
Soul House: A Poetry Reading
The Debate Over Anti Zionism and Antisemitism: Understanding the Terms and Stakes
God’s Body in Pain: Disability and Divine Solidarity in Jewish Text and Tradition
Anti-Zionism on Campus: Legitimate Protest or Dangerous Hate Speech?
Transing the Talmud
The Mothers, the Mamzers and the Rabbis
How Antisemitism Shapes White Nationalism
The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Resistance and Survival in the Holocaust
Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel
Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth
Shared Appeals to Different Gods: Jews, Christians and Medieval Prayer