Jewish Studies Welcomes New Director
Professor Starr begins a three-year term as Director of Jewish Studies this fall.
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COVID-19 & Reactivation Planning 
Class of 2020
Congratulations to the class of 2020 and to all our Jewish studies minors.
Center advances social sciences research with spring grants
The center this spring funded 14 research projects and two conferences, involving two-dozen faculty members and researchers affiliated with five colleges and schools.
Cornell library gains permanent access to genocide archive
Witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other acts of genocide are dwindling in numbers, but their faces and voices will live on through Cornell University Library’s recently acquired permanent access to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (VHA).
New Course: Jews, Christians and Others in Late Antiquity
How did Jews define themselves in relation to Christians, and vice versa? In what ways did Jews and Christians part ways with one another, as scholars often maintain, and what were the factors at play in their separation? And, lastly, what role did other religious and political groups, such as Gnostics, Zoroastrians, Romans, Mandaeans, Manichaeans, and early Muslims play in these developments?
New Course: Brazil to Brooklyn: Jewish Cultures of the Americas
J. Branfman
Jewish cultures in the New World are far more diverse than most Americans realize. Some know the history of Ashkenazi (German and Eastern European) Jews, most of whom immigrated to the U.S. between 1880-1920. In addition to Ashkenazi cultures, our course introduces the Sephardi (Spanish/Portuguese), Mizrahi (Arab), Persian, and Ethiopian Jews who have immigrated to the Americas since the 16th century.