A Scholarly Reunion
In the late 1980s, three middle-school classmates in Jerusalem’s Nachlaot neighborhood took their seats for a Talmud lesson at the Dugma le-Banim School. At the front of the classroom stood their teacher, a young archaeologist named Zeev Weiss—sporting his trademark New Balance sneakers and just beginning his excavations at the Galilean site of Sepphoris. Back then, neither the wide-eyed students nor their unconventional teacher could have imagined that, decades later, their paths would cross again under such different circumstances.
Arabic Dialectology in Berlin Final
This past July, a select group of graduate and doctoral students from the Faculty of Humanities’ Department of Arabic Language and Literature traveled to Germany for a unique academic experience — an advanced workshop in Arabic dialectology, developed in partnership with the Institute of Semitic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
Artists Program
For Dr. Noam Gal, senior lecturer in Art History at Hebrew University’s Faculty of Humanities, art is best experienced in its natural habitat — not flattened on a lecture hall screen, but alive in space, light, and context. “It’s in my DNA to think about art by encountering it in real life,” shares Gal.
Center for Jewish Art
When Israel Prize laureate Professor Bezalel Narkiss founded the Center for Jewish Art in 1979 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, his goal was both visionary and deceptively simple: to systematically document and research objects of Jewish art and create a comprehensive iconographical index of Jewish subjects.