UWM is one of the only places in the world where students can earn a BA in Jewish Studies completely online. If you are on campus, you can earn your degree in Jewish Studies with a mixture of online and in-person classes. UWM is also one of the only places where you can learn Modern Hebrew in fully online classes, allowing you to take classes from anywhere in the world and to fit language learning into the rest of your schedule. Special pricing for out-of-state students for Jewish Studies and Hebrew courses greatly reduces the cost from regular out-of-state rates.
Studying Jewish Studies at UWM allows you to engage richly with the culture and religion of the Jewish people through language, history, arts, media, politics, and literature. Our personalized program really lets you get to know your professors. Our approach to Jewish Studies is broad and inclusive, attracting Jewish and non-Jewish students.
Our students go on to careers in Holocaust education, Jewish communal services, religious education, or on to rabbinical school or advanced graduate study. Some of our students double major in Jewish Studies and History, or Jewish Studies and Religious Studies, as some of our courses count for both majors.
Jewish Studies Courses
JEWISH 100 Introduction to Judaism
JEWISH 101 Jewish Culture in America: History, Literature, Film
JEWISH 131 Introduction to Biblical Studies
JEWISH 192 First-Year Seminar:
JEWISH 193 First-Year Seminar:
JEWISH 199 Independent Study
JEWISH 230 Bible Stories
JEWISH 231 Introduction to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
JEWISH 232 Survey of the Literature of the Post-Biblical Period
JEWISH 234 Survey of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Literature in Translation
JEWISH 235 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible
JEWISH 247 Topics in Jewish Literature, Art, and Culture:
JEWISH 252 American Jewish Community: 1654 to the Present
JEWISH 261 Representing the Holocaust in Words and Images
JEWISH 282 Jewish Identity in Contemporary America
JEWISH 289 Internship in Jewish Studies, Lower Division
JEWISH 297 Study Abroad:
JEWISH 299 Ad Hoc:
JEWISH 321 The Holocaust and the Politics of Memory
JEWISH 328 The Arab-Israeli Conflict
JEWISH 328G The Arab-Israeli Conflict
JEWISH 331 Topics in Biblical Literature:
JEWISH 332 Women in the Bible
JEWISH 350 Global Jewish Film and Television:
JEWISH 358 The Jews of Modern Europe: History and Culture
JEWISH 358G The Jews of Modern Europe: History and Culture
JEWISH 368 Jewish and Christian Responses to the Holocaust
JEWISH 379 Introduction to Jewish History
JEWISH 411 Old Testament Texts:
JEWISH 411G Old Testament Texts:
JEWISH 421 Introduction to Yiddish Literature:
JEWISH 449 Modern Jewish Thought
JEWISH 489 Internship in Jewish Studies, Upper Division
JEWISH 497 Study Abroad:
JEWISH 499 Ad Hoc:
JEWISH 500 Seminar in Jewish Studies:
JEWISH 699 Advanced Independent Study
JEWISH 799 Independent Study
| Name | Rank | Degree | School | Graduate Faculty | Emeritus Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel N. Baum | Senior Lecturer | PhD | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | No | No |
| Yael Gal Ben Yitschak | Senior Lecturer | MA | Middlebury College | No | No |
| Joel Berkowitz | Professor | PhD | City University of New York Graduate Center | Yes | No |
| David Brusin | Senior Lecturer | DD | Reconstructionist Rabbinical College | No | No |
| Dana Margolis | Senior Lecturer | MA | University of Texas at Austin | No | No |
| Lisa Silverman | Associate Professor | PhD | Yale University | Yes | No |