AJS Directory of Endowed Chairs in Jewish Studies

A directory of academic institutions with endowed chairs in Jewish studies. More than 230 endowed chairs are listed below. Please contact the AJS at ajs@ajs.cjh.org to make changes to institutional information.

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Institution	Program	Number of Endowed Chairs in Jewish Studies
Arizona State University	Jewish Studies Program	3
Barnard College	Jewish Studies	1
Brandeis University	Department of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies	10
Case Western Reserve University	Program in Judaic Studies	1
Colby College	Jewish Studies Program	1
Colgate University	Jewish Studies	1
College of Charleston	Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program	1
Columbia University	Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies	6
Concordia University	Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies	1
Cornell University	Program of Jewish Studies	4
Dartmouth College	Jewish Studies Program	1
Dickinson College	Judaic Studies Program	1
Duke University	Center for Jewish Studies	2
Emory University	Tam Institute for Jewish Studies	4
Fairfield University	Program in Judaic Studies	1
Florida Atlantic University	Jewish Studies Program	2
Franklin & Marshall College	Judaic Studies	1
Graduate Theological Union	Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies	1
Harvard University	Center for Jewish Studies	8
Hebrew College	Jewish Studies	4
Hebrew University	The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies	24
Indiana University	Robert and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program	6
Jewish Theological Seminary	all departments	30
Johns Hopkins University	Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program	2
Lafayette College	Department of Religious Studies	1
Lehigh University	Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies	3
McGill University	Department of Jewish Studies	1
Michigan State University	Jewish Studies Program	1
Middlebury College	Program in Jewish Studies	1
Monash University	Australian Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilisation	4
New York University	Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies	10
Northeastern University	Jewish Studies Program	1
Ohio State University	Melton Center for Jewish Studies	1
Penn State University	Jewish Studies Program	1
Portland State University	The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies	1
Princeton University	Program in Judaic Studies	1
Rutgers University	Alan and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life	1
San Diego State University	Jewish Studies Program	1
San Francisco State University	Jewish Studies Program	2
Smith College	Program in Jewish Studies	1
Stanford University	Taube Center for Jewish Studies	4
Syracuse University	Judaic Studies Program	1
Temple University	Jewish Studies	1
Touro Graduate School of Jewish Studies	all departments	1
Tulane University	Jewish Studies	1
University at Buffalo, SUNY	Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage	1
University of Alabama	Department of Religious Studies	1
University of Calgary	Israel Studies Program	1
University of California, Berkeley	Jewish Studies Program	4
University of California, Davis	Jewish Studies	1
University of California, Los Angeles	Center for Jewish Studies	3
University of California, San Diego	Judaic Studies Program	6
University of California, Santa Barbara	Jewish Studies	1
University of California, Santa Cruz	Jewish Studies Program	1
University of Chicago	Graduate Programs in Jewish Studies	4
University of Cincinnati	Department of Judaic Studies	1
University of Connecticut	Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life	1
University of Denver	Center for Judaic Studies	1
University of Hartford	Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies	2
University of Memphis	Bornblum Judaic Studies	1
University of Michigan	Frankel Center for Jewish Studies	4
University of Minnesota	Center for Jewish Studies	2
University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Harris Center for Judaic Studies	3
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Carolina Center for Jewish Studies	6
University of Oklahoma	Judaic Studies Program	2
University of Pennsylvania	Jewish Studies Program	3
University of Pittsburgh	Jewish Studies Program	1
University of San Francisco	The Swig Judaic Studies Program	1
University of Scranton	Judaic Studies	1
University of Sydney	Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies	3
University of Texas - Austin	Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies	2
University of Toronto	Centre for Jewish Studies	5
University of Virginia	Jewish Studies Program	1
University of Washington	Jewish Studies Program	3
University of Waterloo	Jewish Studies Program	1
University of Western Ontario	Jewish Studies Program	1
University of Wisconsin-Madison	Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies	6
Vanderbilt University	Jewish Studies	2
Virginia Commonwealth University	Center for Judaic Studies	1
Washington University in St. Louis	Program in Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies	2
Wellesley College	Jewish Studies Program	1
Yale University	Program in Judaic Studies	5
Yeshiva University	all departments	12
York University	Jewish Studies Program	3