РОССИЙСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ГУМАНИТАРНЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ

Academic Programs 1991-2016

1) Five-Year Program "Jewish Languages, Culture, Texts, and Archives"

(in cooperation with RSUH Division for Archival Studies)

2) Five-Year Program "Jewish Languages, Literature, Culture"

(previous title "Jewish Languages, Literature, History", in cooperation with RSUH Division for History and Philology)

3) Five-Year Program "Jewish Civilization"

(in cooperation with RSUH Division for Art History)

4) Five-Year Program "Judaism and Traditional Jewish Culture"

(in cooperation with RSUH Center for the Study of Religion)

5) Five-Year Program "Sociology and Social History of the Jews"

(in cooperation with RSUH Division for Sociology)

6) Four-Year Program "Jews in Eastern Europe" (BA)

 (in cooperation with RSUH Division for Art History)

7) One-Year Program "Social Work and Individual Identity in Modern Society"

(since 2006, in cooperation with the World Union for Progressive Judaism, the program trains young Jewish community leaders)

8) Evening courses of Yiddish

(on demand, in cooperation with Moscow Hillel)

Basic Courses

LANGUAGES:

- Biblical Hebrew
- Modern Hebrew
- Biblical Aramaic
- Yiddish

HISTORY:

- Ethnic Jewish History
- Ancient Jewish History
- Medieval Jewish History
- Modern Jewish History
- History of the Jews in Eastern Europe till the middle of the 18th cent.
- History of the Jews in the Russian Empire till the beginning of the 20th cent.
- Soviet Jewish History
- Modern Israeli History
- Jewish Historiography

LITERATURE: 

- Bible as Literature
- Medieval Jewish Literature
- Rabbinic Literature
- Yiddish Literature
- Hebrew Literature
- Modern Israeli Literature
- Russian-Jewish Literature

CULTURE AND TRADITION:

- History of Jewish Thought
- Jewish Folklore
- Traditional East-European Jewish Culture
- Jewish Paleography
- History of Jewish Biblical Exegesis
- History of Judaism
- Jewish Liturgy and Jewish Religious Practive
- Jewish Art
- Basic Categories of Jewish Civilization
- Classic Jewish Texts
- Jewish-Christian Dialogue
- History of Anti-Semitism
- Jewish Identity