Jewish Culture and Society

Key areas

Principal areas of specialisation in The Program in Jewish Culture and Society include:

Modern Hebrew language
Modern and contemporary Hebrew literature
Modern and contemporary Jewish literature in English and English translation
Biblical prose and poetry
Post-Biblical Hebrew literature
Education in Australian and Jewish day schools
Second language teaching and acquisition
The representation of European (especially German and Austrian) Jewry in 20th Century Hebrew literature
Holocaust literature
Inter-faith relations
Jewish History
The study of contemporary Antisemitism
Israel-Diaspora relations
The Arab Israeli conflict
Israeli history
The culture of the modern state of Israel
Israeli society
Israel and Jewish film