JEWISH STUDIES

The interdisciplinary Jewish Studies Program at Cornell is built upon the strength of our premier faculty from eleven departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, with expertise in Jewish Studies from antiquity to the present. Jewish Studies faculty are also affiliated with a broad range of other interdisciplinary programs. Cornell Jewish Studies is also unique for counting among its faculty a colleague in the Food Science department in CALS who specializes in Kosher and Halal practices... Cornell University has a long and distinguished history of fostering the study of Judaica. Felix Adler, who is perhaps best remembered for his later role in founding the Society for Ethical Culture, joined the Cornell faculty in 1874 as a professor of Hebrew and Near Eastern literatures. He was succeeded by Nathaniel Schmidt, who taught Semitic languages and history at Cornell from 1896-1932. The Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures (now Near Eastern Studies), was founded in 1965 by..

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