BA in Judaic Studies

The Jews have endured for millennia despite the lack of a common land and language and a long tradition of anti-Judaism and antisemitism. Judaic studies enables students to explore how minorities can survive and thrive, even in unfavorable circumstances. Jews have played a formative role in important developments in modernity, from physics to psychoanalysis to postmodernism. Judaic studies seeks to understand the extraordinary and disproportionate contributions of Jews to secular culture. Study of the Holocaust exposes students to a range of troubling but unavoidable questions. GW offers courses in the history, literature and memory of the Holocaust.