The Herzog Centre for the study of Jewish and Near Eastern Religions and Culture , Trinity College, University of Dublin
Contact details
Arts BuildingCollege Green
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 896 1000
Email: undergraduate.sllcs@tcd.ie
https://http://www.tcd.ie/nmes/herzog-centre/
Head of Department/Director
Dr. Zuleika Rodgers
Email: rodgersz@tcd.ie
Activites
Awards degrees in Jewish Studies as a sole or major componentJoint Honours degree course in Middle Eastern and Jewish and Islamic Civilisations: Including a wide range of areas across the full spectrum of ancient and modern topics in the areas of history, politics and religion to the arts, languages, and international relations. There is the option to take classes in modern and ancient Hebrew.
MLitt Jewish Studies
PhD Jewish Studies
Certificate in Holocaust Education: provides in-depth tuition on the historical significance and contemporary resonance of the Holocaust.
Offers courses in Jewish Studies
Provides supervision in Jewish studies for students working towards a research degree
Pursues academic research activities
Degrees offered
BA Middle Eastern and Jewish and Islamic Civilisations
MLitt Jewish Studies
PhD Jewish Studies
Main research activities
Our Department enables students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, to study many periods and societies of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as to focus on Jewish and Islamic cultures (both within the region and also globally). Our teaching is research-led, and over the course of their degree our students are themselves trained in research methods, leading to the final-year dissertation.
Students can choose to take an ancient or modern language as part of their studies including Arabic, Modern or Ancient Hebrew, Turkish, Sumerian, Akkadian or Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs. Studying a language not only enables conversation with a whole new range of interlocutors, and the study of written sources: being a part of the degree which is not essay-based, it broadens students’ mind with a different way of thinking and learning.
Academic staff in the Department research and teach across a range of areas that embraces the full span of Middle Eastern Studies: the Ancient Near East and its languages, Hebrew Bible, Ancient and Modern Jewish history and culture, Modern Middle East and North Africa, Medieval and Modern Islamic societies, Human Rights and the Holocaust.
Trinity College has a long tradition of teaching the languages and cultures of the Near and Middle East, and this is reflected in the Old Library’s holdings, which include ancient Egyptian papyri as well as Jewish and Muslim books from the Early Modern and Ottoman periods. The Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities and the Rykle and Angelika Borger Assyriology collection provide valuable resources for teaching and research.
The Centre's activities focus on the development of the subject in the University, and in the wider community. Undergraduate courses in Near Eastern, Jewish and Islamic Studies are taught in all four years and students take options spanning the ancient, medieval and modern periods. Encountering Jewish culture is not confined to the classroom and the Centre organises various activities that include study tours. Central to the Centre's mission is the provision of public education. We run public lectures that cover different aspects of Jewish culture and we invite international guest speakers to talk on their subjects of expertise. Many of these events are co-hosted by other Trinity departments and the Holocaust Educational Trust Ireland.
There is a Jewish Studies library
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