Humanities

The Faculty of Humanities was the Hebrew University’s first faculty, and has since been home to the great minds that have nurtured and inspired subsequent generations.

About Humanities: The Breadth of Human Experience

The Faculty of Humanities is a wellspring of Israel’s intellectual life and a worldwide leader that was recently ranked 41st among the world’s universities in the arts and humanities. It spans a rich diversity of disciplines and research fields — from cultures, civilizations and languages to education, archaeology and the full array of Jewish studies — whose variety reflects the breadth of human experience.

Monday concert series a highlight of campus cultural life

The Department of Musicology’s Monday Afternoon Concert series is a proud Jerusalem tradition that is one of the city’s oldest — and few — free concert series. It offers an eclectic array of performers, styles and compositions to a devoted and equally diverse crowd of music lovers.

The announcement that the Mandel Foundation is to establish the Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities on the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University heralds one of the largest gifts in support of the humanities worldwide. More

New exhibit marks 70th anniversary of founding of University’s Museum for Jewish Antiquities

A new exhibit at the Institute of Archaeology, marking the 70th anniversary of one of the Hebrew University’s earliest initiatives, shares many of the collection’s early treasures — still used today as source material for archeological research and teaching — with the public for the first time. [Image shows section of ceiling tile painting of pomegranates from synagogue in Dura Europos, photo: Gabi Laron]

Hebrew University Bible Project scholars have been at work on their critical edition of the Hebrew Bible, a version intended mainly for the use of other scholars, since 1958. “What we’re doing here must be of interest for anyone interested in the Bible,” says project head Dr. Michael Segal of the Department of Bible in the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies. More

To shape tomorrow, look to the past

As citizens of the world, how can we talk about where we should be going without knowing how we got to where we are today? The humanities must not be abandoned says Hebrew University President Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson: its fields have served as the basis for the intellectual development of humanity throughout the generations.