JWST-Jewish Studies

Examines scholarship about Jewish cultures, communities, and intellectual through the prisms of a variety of disciplines: history, anthropology, literature, feminist studies, biblical commentary, art history, philosophy, and music. Seeks to equipment students with a sophisticated understanding of the methods scholars have used to illuminate both the coherence and the diversity of Jewish experience from antiquity through the 20th Century.

Explores how digital tools change the way we know about the Holocaust by (1) critically understanding and analyzing digital representations of the Holocaust and (2) using and developing digital skills to engage with stories about the Holocaust.