Jewish Studies

Phone: 843.953.5682
Yaron Ayalon, Director
Joshua Shanes, Associate Director

About the Program

The goal of the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program Jewish Studies major is to enable students to understand the diversity and complexity of the Jewish experience. Students will acquire a sophisticated understanding of the historical, religious, philosophical, literary, sociological, and linguistic components that constitute the Jewish experience, as well as an armory of interpretative and analytical skills that can be applied within and across a broad range of disciplines. The program includes the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies, the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, and the Arnold Center for Israel Studies, and has an active program of extra-curricular lectures in those and many other Jewish subjects. The Sylvia Vlosky Yaschik Jewish Studies Center is home to a small Judaica library, faculty offices, lounges and meeting facilities that foster academic, cultural and social aspects of Jewish Studies and Jewish student life. The College’s Addlestone library houses the Jewish Heritage Collection, world-class archives on southern Jewish history and culture that offers research resources of exceptional depth to students and scholars.

Majors

• Jewish Studies, B.A.  

Minors

• Jewish Studies Minor