Jews on the Move - Translocations, Transmissions & Transformations in Jewish Culture
Together with the Israel Istitute for Advanced Studies, the Mandel school is proud present 2015's summer school agenda. Throughout recorded Jewish history, from antiquity to the present, Jews have relocated as immigrants, refugees, and travelers, and various kinds of movement ־ exile, migration, pilgrimage ־ as well as the movement of ideas and practice, have shaped Jewish history and culture. “Jews on the Move” is an intensive, week-long graduate level program. It offers the opportunity to work with internationally recognized scholars, in archives and libraries, and will include day trips in Jerusalem.
The program is geared toward graduate students from the various subfields of Jewish studies in the humanities and the social sciences, including students who are interested in various aspects of the Jewish past as well as those focused on present-day realities.
