Summer Field Schools
Schools held by the Sefer Center can be basically divided into 2 main types: field-observation schools and field-working schools.
Field-observation schools combine academic component with an opportunity for students to travel to places of historical and cultural importance with the monuments of Jewish material and spiritual culture, immersion in the atmosphere of Jewish history and culture in different regions.
Students who participate in field-working schools spend most of their time on practical field work: collecting valuable ethnographic data, cataloging information about Jewish cemetaries, providing archeological excavations.Logiccally, during field working schools participants - usually they are well-prepared and skilful students - have lowered number of lectures and seminars in comparison with the other school type.
List of Field Working schools and Field schools in Jewish Studies:
2026
2025
- Expedition on Jewish Epigraphy to Azerbaijan (Quba/ Krasnaya Sloboda,August 17-29, 2025)
- Popular science expedition "Jewish Studies on Wheels" to Western Belarus (August, 22-27, 2025)
- Expedition to Jewish Autonomous Region and Khabarovsk (September, 13-21, 2025)
2024
- Expedition to Rostov-na-Donu (June, 15-23, 2024)
- Expedition to Yaroslavl, Rybinsk and Kostroma (August, 14-25, 2024)
2022
2021
- Online School "Digital Epigraphy at the Junction with Digital Humanities"
- Field School-Expedition on Jewish Ethnography and Epigraphy in Tula
- Online School on Field and Digital Research in Aramaic and Hebrew Studies
2020
- Online Field school on Jewish studies Digital ethnography: new perspectives in Jewish research
- School-expedition to study the cultural and historical heritage of mountain Jews in Dagestan. (October 11-18, 2020)
2019
- School-Expedition on Jewish Ethnography in Rybnitsa (Transnistria) July1-11, 2019
- Field School on Jewish Epigraphy in Orhei (Moldova) July1-11, 2019
- Field School on Jewish Ethnography and Epigraphy in Dagestan (Russia), August, 20-29, 2019
2018
- School-Expedition in Rybnitsa (Transnistria), June, 24 - July 1 2018
- Field School on Jewish Ethnography and Epigraphy in Bryansk and Starodub (Russia), August, 6-12 2018
- Field School on Jewish Ethnography and Epigraphy in Dagestan (Russia), August, 21-29 2018
2017
- School-Expedition in Smolenskaya Oblast (Russia), May, 7-11 2017
- School-Expedition in Bryanskaya Oblast (Russia), May, 12-15 2017
- Field School on Jewish Ethnography and Epigraphy in Transnistria, July, 4-16 2017
- Field School on Khazar Archaelogy in Tsimlyansk (Russia), August, 1-13 2017
2016
- Field school on Khazar archaelogy in Divnogorye (Russia), June 26 - July 3, 2016
- Field school on Jewish ethnography in Smolenskaya oblast' (Russia) 5-12 July 2016
- Field school on Jewish ethnography and epigraphics in Bryanskaya oblast' (Russia)
- Field school on Jewish ethnography and epigraphics in Beshenkovichi (Belarus)
2015
- Ethnogrpahic Expedition to Israel, 5-18 October 2015
- School-Expedition in Glubokoe (Belarus), 22-30 July 2015
- School-Expedition in Smolenskaya oblast (Russia), 4-13 August 2015
- School-Expedition in Rezekne (Latvia), 20-28 July 2015
2014
- School-Expedition in Lepel (Belarus), 23–31 July 2014
- School on Jewish Epigraphy and Ethnography in Ludza (Latvia), 4-12 August 2014
- Epigraphic School-Expedition in Birzhai (Lithuania), 13-21 August 2014
2013
- Excursion tour (school) in Austria-Hungary (Budapest-Vienna), 11-18 August 2013
- Field school (expedition) in Lithuania (Birzhai), 5-12 August 2013
- School on Jewish Studies in Georgia, 2-10 May 2013
2012
- Summer School in Latvia , August 1-10, 2012 (20 ptsp.)
- Summer Expedition in Balti (Moldova), August 5-15, 2012
- School expedition on Epigraphics and Ethnography in Zheludok, July 22-29, 2012 (19 ptsp.)
- Summer School on Hasidism in Medzhibozh, June 24- July 1, 2012 (23 ptsp.)
2011
- Summer School of Antropology of Religion In Volgograd, July 19-28, 2011
- Summer Judaic Schools in Balti (Moldova), August 1-10, 2011 (19 ptsp.)
- Spring School in Bukhara and Samarkand, May 1-8, 2011 (26 ptsp.)
2010
- Summer Judaic Schools in Ivano-Frankovsk (Ukraine), July 20 August 10, 2010 (16 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Czech and Slovak Republic, August 12 - 20, 2010 (22 ptsp.)
2008
- Summer Judaic Schools in Poland, August 13-20, 2008 (19 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Uzhgorod (Ukraine), August 21-27, 2008 (28 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Молдавии, July 28 - August 3, 2008 (32 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Bershad (Ukraine), July 17-30, 2008 (21 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Kazan (Russia), June 30 - July 6, 2008 (61 ptsp.)
2007
- Summer Judaic Schools in Taman (Russia), August 16-23, 2007 (24 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in в Chernovtsy (Ukraine), August 8-14, 2007 (39 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Belarus ("wheeled school"), July 31 - August 7, 2007 (35 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Mogilev-Podolsky, July 18-31, 2007 (20 ptsp.)
2006
- Summer Judaic Schools in Lvov (Ukraine), August 8-14 2006 (50 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in St.Petersburg, July 30 August 5, 2006 (27 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Balt/Tulchin, June 27 - July 10 2006 (20 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Odessa, June 26 - July 2, 2006 (50 ptsp.)
2005
- Summer Judaic Schools in Vilnius (Lithuania), August 15-21, 2005 (30 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Crimea, August 3-17, 2005 (38 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Tulchin, July 14 – 25, 2005 (18 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Baku (Azerbaijan), June 26 – July 3, 2005 (30 ptsp.)
Schools held earlier:
2004
- Summer Judaic Schools in Crimea (Ukraine), August 15 – 27, 2004 (50 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Taman (Russia), August 2 – 10, 2004 (32 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Belarus («wheeled school»), 1 – 11 июля 2004 (36 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Samarkand, April 30 – May 6, 2004 (38 ptsp.)
2003
- Summer Judaic Schools in Proskirov (Khmelnitsky, Ukraine), August 26 – 31, 2003 (35 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in Crimea (Ukraine), June 25 – July 3, 2003 (35 ptsp.)
- Summer Judaic Schools in в Samarkand (Uzbekistan), June 16 – 22, 2003 (45 ptsp.)
