Jewish studies

Jewish Studies and Jewish Studies are the official names of a scientific discipline that can be studied at several German universities, relating themselves as members of the tradition of Jewish Studies, which developed as a separate academic discipline in the 19th century.

History

Judaism is the traditional technical term that prevailed after the Second World War in German-speaking countries, in reference to the names of other disciplines such as Oriental Studies, Romance Studies, Hebrew Studies. The first foundations of German- Judaic Institute of Humanities Faculties taken place since the 1960s in Vienna (Prof. Kurt Schubert), West Berlin (Prof. Jacob Taubes ), Cologne ( Prof. Johann Maier ) and Frankfurt / Main ( Prof. Arnold Goldberg ). At the Humboldt University in East Berlin there was the subject of Israel studies. The recent designation Jewish Studies draws on the by the Shoah ( Holocaust ) in the first Anglo-American and Israel continued discipline Jewish Studies at; as the founder applicable in the United States Salo W. Baron (1895-1989), a historian at Columbia University, first university teacher in Vienna. According to the website of the Association of the Judaizers in Germany there is no content, or methodological difference between Jewish Studies and Jewish Studies.

Subject

The tray has the teaching and research of more than 3000 years of history of religion and culture of Judaism to the destination. Jewish religious and cultural history are characterized here not as a passive object of external influences, but as an active acting part of the general culture. Essential for the confrontation with the Jewish religious and cultural history, knowledge of the source language of Judaism, especially Hebrew, but Aramaic, Judeo - Arabic, Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo- Persian and Judaeo - Greek. The study of the Hebrew language as possible in all its stages of development ( biblical, rabbinic, medieval, modern) is regarded as a prerequisite for the critical reading source. This principle applies not only for the postgraduate phase, but already in the bachelor's degree programs, is where mostly working on Anglo-Saxon universities with translations, ie, with texts from second hand. With this specific Judaic expertise to Jewish Studies / Jewish Studies takes off from other compartments of the Philosophical Faculty, the punctually with Judaism deal ( Semitic studies, history, philosophy, etc.).

Jewish Studies / Jewish Studies sees itself, although in the tradition of Jewish Studies, as far as the philological and cultural historical claim, but there is a difference: While the science of Judaism was a discipline by Jews for Jews, including the redefinition of one's identity should serve in the modern state, is placed in Jewish Studies / Jewish Studies importance to explore Judaism from a neutral point of view. Therefore, the tray is usually in the Philosophical Faculties (or, where these no longer exist in its classical form, in history and cultural studies at ) settled and not of Theology at the faculties. The subject should be neither denominational nor limited to viewing Judaism as a religion alone.

Jewish Studies / Jewish Studies may at German universities as one-or two - subject Bachelor 's degree program (Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt / Main, Halle / Saale, Heidelberg, Cologne and others) and partly as a Master's degree program ( Dusseldorf, Heidelberg, etc.) be studied. Chairs with a smaller equipment is available in Bamberg, Freiburg / Breisgau, Göttingen, Mainz and Munich. All courses are open to candidates and applicants regardless of their religion openly. An exception is the connected in cooperation between the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam and the Abraham Geiger College rabbinical training.

Universities

Germany

  • Berlin (FU ), Institute of Jewish Studies
  • Dusseldorf, Institute for Jewish Studies and Department of Yiddish
  • Frankfurt am Main, Department of Jewish Studies
  • Freiburg im Breisgau Jewish Studies
  • Greifswald Jewish Studies
  • Halle- Wittenberg, Department of Jewish Studies / Jewish Studies
  • Heidelberg ( College of Jewish Studies ), University homepage
  • Cologne, Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies
  • Mainz, Professor of Jewish Studies
  • Munich, Department of Jewish Studies
  • Potsdam, Institute of Jewish Studies / School of Jewish Studies
  • Tübingen, Institutum Judaicum / Jewish Studies
  • Erfurt, Institute of Jewish Studies, Department of Religious Studies
  • Bamberg, Chair of Jewish Studies

Austria

  • Vienna, Institute of Jewish Studies

Switzerland

  • Basel, Institute of Jewish Studies
  • Lucerne, Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies ( IJCF )
  • Bern, Institute of Jewish Studies
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