Hindu-Jewish Studies

Hindu-Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University were established in 2018, at the Sir Dr. Naim Dangoor Centre for Universal Monotheism. The Hindu-Jewish program at Bar-Ilan aspires to acheive various aims: To further Hindu Studies and Hindu-Jewish Studies in various departments at Bar-Ilan University. To Hold Asian-Jewish Conferences and programs such book inaugurations. To promote Hindu Studies and Hindu-Jewish Studies on a graduate level, i.e. to supervise MA and PhD dissertations. To further Research in both Hindu Studies and Hindu-Jewish Studies. To Promote Global Bhagavad gita Studies in order to bring together East and West. To Establish a Chair in Hindu-Jewish [...]

The Program in Hindu-Jewish Studies was established at the Department of Asian Studies, The University of Haifa, at 2011 and has operated for seven years, until 2018. It offered courses on Hindu Studies, a comparative Hindu-Jewish course taught with Prof. Yossi Chajes, and held six conferences. The most important achievement in terms of research has been the publication of Dharma and Halacha; Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion (2018). This volume has brought together fine scholars and has contributed significantly to the emerging field of Hindu-Jewish Studies.

“This is a fine collection of chapters on an important topic. Hindu-Jewish (and Indian-Israeli) connections are timely and significant. I recommend this work and congratulate professors Ithamar Theodor and Yudit Kornberg Greenberg on this pioneering effort.” NATHAN  KATZ , Florida International University “Chapter by chapter, this edited collection reconstructs categories and unsettles assumptions that have long dominated how we imagine religion. The scholars included here lay out thoughtful, focused comparative studies of Hindu and Jewish ritual, ethics, and theology. Along the way, they decenter European and North American approaches to religion, engaging scholars from around the world. This is [...]