Honours BA in Jewish Studies - St. George in Toronto Canada | University of Toronto

Our bachelor's degree offers students an in-depth exploration of Jewish Studies, a discipline that examines Jewish culture, society, and religious traditions within wider historical and cultural frameworks. Through our curriculum, learners develop expertise in diverse academic approaches spanning different eras, global regions, textual traditions, and literary forms. As a result, our students engage with Jewish history (covering ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary periods), Jewish artistic and literary expressions, and Jewish languages (primarily Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, and Yiddish), along with Judaism's theological, philosophical, mystical dimensions, and modern Israeli studies.
This interdisciplinary program allows each participant to customize their coursework to expand their academic horizons. It delivers rigorous instruction in the religious, cultural, political, and historical aspects of Jewish communities across various civilizations. A key goal of our three undergraduate Jewish studies tracks is to equip students with innovative analytical frameworks for examining issues through Jewish perspectives while drawing insights from Jewish historical developments. We train students to employ multiple scholarly methods to investigate Jewish experiences from interdisciplinary, transnational, historical, and contemporary viewpoints.