PH. D. Degree | Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

General Info

The Department offers students the opportunity to pursue doctoral degrees in the following areas:

Ancient Period: Social, Political, Economic, Cultural and Intellectual-Religious Aspects

Second Temple, Mishnaic and Talmudic Period: Movements and Sects, Popular vs. Elite Religion, Religious Leadership, Social, Cultural, Economic and Intellectual-Religious Aspects, Land of Israel and Diaspora

Medieval Period: Social, Cultural, Economic and Intellectual-Religious Aspects, Jews in Ashkenaz and the Islamic Lands

Modern Period: Social, Political, Economic and Intellectual-Religious Aspects, Haskala Movement, Orthodoxy, Women’s History, and Gender Studies, Holocaust Period

History of Yishuv and State of Israel, Immigration from European and Islamic Lands

Ph. D. Degree

Study Requirements:

A. Supplementary studies according to a program to be determined by the Head of the Department and the student's advisor.

B. Participation in a departmental seminar.

C. Participation in two courses in the department or in another department.

C. Knowledge of English and another modern foreign language.

D. Writing a final dissertation.