Welcome to The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin provides a multi-disciplinary Jewish Studies curriculum for students at the University of Texas and an innovative crossroads the study of Jewish life in the Americas, its place in Jewish history, and its contemporary and future relationship to the State of Israel. Learn more...
SCJS will host 2013 Latin American Jewish Studies Association conference
The XVI International Research Conference of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) will be held at the University of Texas at Austin June 9-11, 2013. The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies will be the principal host. [Read more...]
News
Professor Naomi Lindstrom appointed Associate Director of Schusterman Center
Dr. Lindstrom also received a 2011–2012 President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award.
Summer Language Institute 2012 registration open, new Web site debuts
Yiddish is one of four languages students may take in this intensive summer program, equivalent to two years of study.
Schusterman Center offers free screenings of Austin Jewish Film Festival selections
The center will offer free public screenings of four films on campus and at Texas Hillel.
Award-winning author Joseph Skibell talks of Talmudic tales
Skibell, a visiting professor at the Michener Center for Writers, will deliver the lunchtime lecture at Texas Hillel Weds. 11/16.
Photographer Loli Kantor unveils new exhibit on Eastern European Jewish Life
Kantor, a longtime friend of the Center, will showcase 'And If a Voice Was Heard' at Austin's B. Hollyman Gallery.
