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2025-2026 Franklin & Marshall College Catalog 
  
2025-2026 Franklin & Marshall College Catalog

Judaic Studies Minor (Hebrew Language and Literature Track)


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The Judaic Studies program is designed to introduce students to the religion, history and literature of the Jewish people and to their interactions with the other peoples among whom they have lived. In the Western world, Jewish thought has been foundational to our common culture, yet the experience of the Jewish people, like that of other excluded minorities, has often diverged profoundly from that of the majority. The study of Judaism and of the varieties of Jewish experience can thus be both a complement and a corrective, to any course of study examining the history and culture of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the Americas. The program for minors provides a comprehensive introduction to the religious, cultural and political traditions of Jewish life from its origins to present day.

Judaic Studies Program Faculty


Professor Jeffrey Podoshen, Chair
 

Members of the Judaic Studies Program Committee

Alan Glazer
Henry P. and Mary B. Stager Professor of Business

L. Scott Lerner
Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and French and Italian

Marco Di Giulio
Professor of Hebrew Language & Literature

Jeffrey S. Podoshen
Professor of Marketing

Kostis Kourelis
Associate Professor of Art History

Ilan Benattar
Robert F. & Patricia G. Ross Weis Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies & History

Kabi Hartman
Director of the Program in Support of Academic Excellence and Senior Teaching Professor of English

Additional faculty not on the program committee also contribute to this program.

Minor Requirements:


The Hebrew Language and Literature minor track includes:

  • at least three Hebrew language courses, one of which must be at the 300-level;
  • any three JST courses.

Appropriate substitutions may be approved by the program chair.

Minors must take at least four courses at Franklin & Marshall.

To be considered for honors in Judaic Studies, graduating seniors, in addition to meeting the College’s general requirements for honors, must complete and defend a thesis of high quality.

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