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Expanding Jewish Studies

UCI seeks to grow interdisciplinary research, courses and programs designed to enhance knowledge, understanding of Jewish culture, history.
CONFRONTING ANTISEMITISM

The UCI Center for Jewish Studies launches a new UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWS PROGRAM
Jewish Studies public lectures

The UCI Center for Jewish Studies offers public lectures in Jewish studies, the Holocaust, and Israel, featuring renowned scholars and writers from around the world. Photo: Holocaust lecture, in conjunction with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Classes on Zionism and Israel

We offer a wide array of classes on Jewish history, religion, and culture, including regular course offerings on the history of Zionism, the State of Israel, and a popular class on the history of Jerusalem.
Sephardic studies

The UCI Center for Jewish Studies has a strong presence in Sephardic Studies, with faculty working on Judeo-Spanish, Sephardic, and Latin American Jewish literature and history.
Photo: Interior of the Magen David synagogue in Mexico City.

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Mission

The mission of the Center for Jewish Studies is to serve as the hub for the interdisciplinary and comparative study of Jewish and Israeli culture and society at UCI and in Orange County; to engage the wider community through public programs and lectures; to support cutting-edge research and to inspire undergraduate scholarship in Jewish and Israel studies; and to promote tolerance and appreciation of cultural and religious pluralism on the UCI campus.

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