The Center is committed to establishing, deepening, and expanding of the academic teaching of Jewish studies in an international perspective. In last decades the Center deliberately focuses its activities primarily on the post-Communist East European space, taking into consideration growing interest in developing of Jewish Studies in this region and interest in Israeli expertise in this field. 

In cooperation with our international partners, we organize short-term visits of Israeli professors for the purpose of academic teaching in the universities of Baltic States, Czech Republic, Georgia, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Poland. We also maintain our long-term academic contacts with the Latin America region (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, etc.).

 The Center’s varied program aims to create enduring scholarly ties between university programs abroad and Israeli faculty in the various fields of Jewish studies. In the past two decades, hundreds of Israeli lecturers took part in our activity in Israel and abroad, including world-renowned experts in Jewish languages, Jewish Thought and Kabbalah, Jewish History and Literature, Israeli Studies, Arab-Israeli Conflict, etc.

Our main goal is to turn Jewish and Israeli Studies to a bridge that connects Jewish civilization with other nations and cultures as well as to serve as a shared foundation to create a joint basis for Jews around the world.

 

 

Academic Program 2022-2023, Fall Semester

 

	Lecturer	Hosting Institution	Course Title
1	Dr. Samuel Barnai	Riga University	Israel: Domestic and Foreign Policy
2	Prof. Zeev Khanin	University of Bucharest	Israeli Society and Politics
3	Prof. Michael Silber	Charles University, Prague	Jewish History in the Modern times as Transnational History
4	Dr. Dina Moyal	Vilnius University	Antisemitism in USSR
5	Dr. Semion Goldin	Ion Creanga State  University, Moldova	Jews in Eastern Europe as Part of Ethnic History of the Region