The Program in Judaic Studies aims to promote and support the study of Jews and Judaism across Brown. To that end, we announce research grants for Brown undergraduate andgraduate students working in related fields. Funds may be used in a wide variety of ways,across Brown. To that end, we announce research grants for Brown undergraduate andgraduate students working in related fields. Funds may be used in a wide variety of ways,including acquisition of research materials, traveling to research sites, etc.

Brown RISD Hillel and the Program in Judaic Studies are excited to announce:

The 2013 Israeli Elections and the Rise of the New Israelis
A conversation with Yoram Peri

"Indigenous Jews: Oil, Anthropology , and French Colonial Law in the Algerian Sahara" by Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA).

Jacobson, David C., Beyond Political Messianism: The Poetry of Second-Generation Religious Zionist Settlers

In recent decades, a group of second-generation religious Zionist West Bank settlers have turned away from the collectivist political messianic ideology of the first generation of settlers and have begun to explore poetry as a mode of individual self-expression. Based on interviews of eight key figures in this new trend and an analysis of their poetry, Beyond Political Messianism: The Poetry of SecondGeneration Religious Zionist Settlers tells the story of how they revolutionized the religious Zionist settler culture by moving poetry into the mainstream of that culture and how they introduced into the world of secular Israeli literature images and language drawn from their lives as religiously observant Jews. Among the themes central to these poets’ concerns are: the formation of a religious identity based on faith and ritual observance, the relationship of the contemporary Jew to the Bible and to traditional Jewish texts, appropriate ways to write about erotic experiences, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.