Study and Teaching

The Jewish Studies dual-subject bachelor's degree programme

The new Bachelor's degree programme ‘Jewish Studies’, which can be flexibly combined with other degree programmes at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, will begin in the winter semester 2025/26.

The ‘Jewish Studies’ degree programme studies the history, religion and culture of the Jews. The programme is offered as a two-subject Bachelor's degree course and is primarily focused on historical and cultural studies. In the basic modules, students acquire basic knowledge about Judaism and the key texts of Jewish tradition as well as a trans-epochal and trans-national insight into the history of the Jewish diaspora. The basic knowledge is deepened in advanced modules, in which students have the option of focussing on pre-modern or modern Judaism. The study of Hebrew is an essential part of the degree programme.

Graduates of the degree programme acquire a well-founded and broad basic knowledge of Jewish tradition and in-depth specialist knowledge of pre-modern or modern Jewish history and culture. Modern Hebrew is taught over the entire three years of the degree programme; other language levels of Hebrew are also offered. In addition, the basic modules provide an introduction to academic work and the advanced modules enable students to practise independent research and development of topics. Optional supplementary modules include the possibility of an internship or recognition of academic achievements abroad.

Courses at the Martin Buber Institute in summer semester 2025

• P: Designing memory digitally: Nazi crimes in Italy and the work on online photo exhibitions

  • Erinnerung digital gestalten: NS-Verbrechen in Italien und die Arbeit an Online-Fotoausstellungen

   

• SE: History of anti-Semitism in Europe: From the Enlightenment to the First World War

  • Geschichte des Antisemitismus in Europa: Von der Aufklärung bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg (AS)

   

• LC: Hebrew Basic Course IIa & IIb

  • Hebräisch Grundkurs IIa & IIb

   

• SE: Jews and politics in the long 19th century

  • Juden und Politik im langen 19. Jahrhundert (AS)

   

• L: Jewish history in the long 19th century

  • Jüdische Geschichte im langen 19. Jahrhundert

   

• CO: Colloquium on Jewish History (OS)

  • Kolloquium jüdische Geschichte (OS)

   

• P: War, the military and the experience of violence in Israeli literature and film

  • Krieg, Militär und Gewalterfahrung in der israelischen Literatur und im Film

   

• P: After Nuremberg: The prosecution of National Socialist crimes in the post-war period

  • Nach Nürnberg: Die strafrechtliche Verfolgung nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen in der Nachkriegszeit

   

• AS: Religion and nationalism in Jewish history

  • Religion und Nationalismus in der jüdischen Geschichte

   

• AS: Science and politics: a Jewish orientalist in the age of the world wars
  • Wissenschaft und Politik: ein jüdischer Orientalist im Zeitalter der Weltkriege