Jewish Studies
- Master´s programs
Institute for Jewish Studies
14195 Berlin
To be eligible for admission to the master’s program, applicants need to fulfill the following requirements:
- A bachelor’s degree in Jewish Studies or an equivalent degree that corresponds in terms of structure and content to a bachelor’s degree program with at least 60 credit points in courses in or related to Jewish studies.
- Proof of Hebrew language skills (“Hebraicum”) which may have been acquired as part of the 60 credit points mentioned above.
- Proof of English language skills (level B2 CEFR).
The DSH - or German Language University Entrance Exam for Foreign Students. It is obligatory for all applicants whose first language is not German and who have earned their initial degree from a university (or equivalent institution) where the language of instruction is not German.
Students do not pay tuition fees; the university charges small administrative dues and fees each semester.
The Master’s program in Jewish studies offers a specialist and research-oriented education that is geared toward interdisciplinary studies. It comprises the subject-specific core areas of Jewish studies and offers as an alternative to the subject-specific electives area the profile areas “Judaism and Islam” and “Holocaust Studies” which accentuate the social and political relevance of the Master program. The profile area “Judaism and Islam” is enhanced by the Master programs of related disciplines at the Free University such as Arabic studies, Iranian studies, Islamic studies, philosophy, religious studies, Semitic studies, and Turkology. The modules for the profile area “Holocaust Studies” are studied at the American Touro College Berlin.
The Master’s program comprises three areas: the core area, the electives area (alternatively the profile areas "Judaism and Islam" or "Holocaust Studies") and the complementary area.
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1. Core area |
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Jewish self-conceptions and tolerance |
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Jewish living worlds |
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Jewish responses to Modernity and Postmodernity |
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2. Subject-specific electives |
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Normative traditions and cultural transformations |
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Judaism and Islam |
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Jewish history of knowledge (“Wissensgeschichte”) |
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History of the Holocaust |
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Aftermath of the Holocaust |
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History and Aftermath of the Holocaust |
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Or profile area „Judaism and Islam“: |
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Normative traditions and cultural transformations |
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Judaism and Islam |
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Jewish history of knowledge (“Wissensgeschichte”) |
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Or profile area „Holocaust Studies“ |
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History of the Holocaust |
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Aftermath of the Holocaust |
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History and Aftermath of the Holocaust |
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The complementary area allows the students to enhance their chosen subject specific electives or profile area with language modules and modules from other master's programs. |
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- Christina von Braun, Micha Brumlik, Handbuch Jüdische Studien, Cologne 2018.
- Martin Goodman, Jeremy Cohen, David Sorkin, The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, Oxford 2003.