Jewish Studies

In this year’s List Lecture, Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College) examined how Jews, Arabs, and Christians engaged the promises of European modernity in the nineteenth century. Focusing on parallel moments of optimism and eventual disillusionment, the...

The nature of Midrash has perplexed scholars since the very inception of Jewish Studies as an academic discipline. This systematic analysis of midrashic terminology presented by Ishay Rosen-Zvi, offers a perspective that stands in sharp contrast to the...

Center for the Study of World Religions hosted our annual List Lecture Speaker Adam Afterman. Dr. Adam Afterman is a Professor at the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel Aviv University, specializing in Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah. He is...

In the fourth annual List Lecture in Jewish Studies, Professor Steve Kepnes outlines a number of ways in which Jewish liturgy can be seen as "Theo-Drama" with specific analyses of the Kedushah, (Holiness) and Hallel (Praise) liturgies.

On April 3, 2023, Shaul Magid delivered the Albert & Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture at the Center for the Study of World Religions. In this talk Magid explored the relationship Critical Race Theory and Black Studies have with Jewish Studies, in...

HDS is known to take interfaith dialogue very seriously. But what happens when that dialogue leaves the classroom? How does it work in the context of the “real world”—where faith is lived in addition to studied—and where trauma is a matter of experience...

This is the bicentennial year of Harvard Divinity School, and in addition to high profile special events on campus, most of us are naturally taking the long view, placing our work in the light of that 200-year history. The Center, though young by HDS...

On Thursday, October 1, Steven Kepnes, director of the Chapel House and chair of the Department of Religion at Colgate University, will deliver the Albert and Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR)...

Arthur (Avraham Yizhak) Green defines himself as a neo-Hasidic Jewish theologian. Hasidism, as he sees it, is an approach to religion that begins with the prophet’s intoxicating and transformative insight that “The whole world is filled with God’s glory...