For more than 25 years, the Judaic Studies Program at UCF has enhanced Judaic knowledge, scholarship, and awareness in Central Florida. The program offers an interdisciplinary Minor in Judaic Studies and a Certificate in Judaic Studies. Judaic Studies forms an essential component of the university curriculum because the roots of western culture, civilization, and major world religions lie in ancient Jewish thought and practice, as manifested in the Hebrew Bible and subsequent writings.

For information about the minor, you can view this flyer.

Spring Courses in Judaic Studies

• JST 3402: Jewish People in Dispersion
  Instructor: S. Olshansky | Credit hours: 3
• JST 3210: Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism
  Instructor: C. Lipskier | Credit hours: 3
• JST 3751: Literature of the Holocaust
  Instructor: M. Pelli | Credit hours: 3
• JST 3005: Tenets of Judaism
  Instructor: J. Berger | Credit hours: 3
• JST 3415: Israel: Start-Up Nation
  Instructor: J. Berger | Credit hours: 3
• JST 3149: Judaism and Jesus
  Instructor: K. Hanson | Credit hours: 3

Legal residents of Florida aged 60 or older can take any of these classes without payment. This can be arranged through Kent Woodford, in the UCF Registrar's Office 407-823-5148, kent.woodford@ucf.edu.

Anyone wanting further information about UCF's Judaic Studies Program can contact its director Dr. Kenneth Hanson at 407-823-5039 or our program administrator Jeff Golub at 407-823-5129.

Area Studies Events

James Weldon Johnson Lecture Series

Wednesday, October 18, 2017; 10:30am - 11:15am

James Weldon Johnson Lecture Series

Wednesday, November 15, 2017; 10:30am - 11:45am

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Previous Events

Leonard S. Levin: “Why God Is Subject to Murphy’s Law”

Nov 10

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Highlights

October 14 2016

Professor Moshe Pelli, former director of the UCF Judaic Studies, and Abe and Tess Wise Endowed Professor of Judaic Studies, has just published his new book by the Hebrew University’s Magnes Press in Jerusalem. [Read More]

April 21 2015

Hehalutz (1852-1889); Bikurim (1864-1865): Professor Moshe Pelli, Director of UCF Judaic Studies and Abe and Tess Wise Endowed Professor of Judaic Studies, has just published his new book by the Hebrew University’s Magnes Press in Jerusalem. [Read More]

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Courses

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Recent Faculty Publications

Moshe Pelli

Moshe Pelli, Kochvei Yitzhak, The Journal of the Haskalah in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1845–1873), Monographs and Annotated Indices, Magnes Press of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; 629 pp.; 2016.

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