Department of Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies at SFSU

The degree in Jewish Studies is portable: students gain a wide range of skills for numerous professions while focusing on the study of Jews, Judaism and Jewishness globally and historically. Through the lens of Jewish culture, religion, politics and literature, students adopt what they learn in the classroom to a world beyond the campus. Since we are the only degree-granting Department of Jewish Studies in the Bay Area and in the California State University system, students learn to create new intersections between the degree in Jewish Studies and the professions of their dreams. We train students for the future.