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The Sefer Center's Winter School in Jewish Studies will be held on January, 30 –February, 2, 2025.
The Winter School is open to undergraduate, graduate students and young faculty (up to and including age 45) whose interests include Biblical studies, Israel studies and history of the Middle East before and after October 7, Jews and Jewish themes in European art and culture, Jewish manuscripts and intellectual history. Within the framework of two parallel lecture streams, the School will consider the themes of the search for the meaning of history in Late Antiquity and in the XX-XXI centuries; Sephardic writing culture in the Middle Ages and early Modern times; the reasons for and the main stages of participation of Eastern European Jews in the formation of modern popular American culture; Old Testament texts in European fine arts of the VI-XVII centuries; Israel's relations with its Middle Eastern neighbors.
The program of the School includes mini-courses (consisting of 3 lectures), giving each participant an opportunity to listen to 3 mini-courses; plenary lectures, participate in master classes and cultural program.
The organizers provide the school participants with educational and cultural program, accommodation in a boarding house near Moscow, meals, transfer to the boarding house from Moscow/to Moscow. Payment of travel expenses for non-resident participants to Moscow is not provided. Charity entrance fee for the school from 5000 rubles.
Applications for participation in the School (online application form in Russian) will be accepted until December 22, 2024. Notifications about the results of the competitive selection for the Winter School will be sent out by December 27, 2024. See the table below for course descriptions and literature lists (in Russian).
