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The NEJS Department Office is located in the Lown Center for Judaic Studies (Room 211). Get directions to our offices and the Brandeis campus.
Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (NEJS)
Brandeis University
415 South Street
Mailstop 054
Waltham, MA 02453
Phone: 781-736-2950
nejs@brandeis.edu
Faculty and Staff for the NEJS Department
Expertise: Islamic thought, theology, law and jurisprudence; Arabic language (Qur'anic, classical, and modern); and Classical Arabic literature and poetry
Expertise: Hebrew language, modern Israeli literature and culture, Israeli theater and drama pedagogy, creative reading and writing, theories and methodologies in second language acquisition
Expertise: Israeli society and culture in modern Hebrew literature as it relates to feminism, war and peace, the Holocaust, family structure, economic and cultural dislocation
Expertise: Jews of the Islamic world, medieval Hebrew literature, medieval Jewish studies, Separdic studies, medieval Jewish thought
