The Jewish Studies Program at Cornell University was founded in 1973 and attained the status of an intercollegiate program in 1976. The interdisciplinary program is built upon the strength of our premier faculty from eleven departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, with expertise in Jewish Studies from antiquity to the present. We offer Cornell students a wide selection of courses on Jewish culture, history, media, and texts from: ancient Israel; late antique Mesopotamia; medieval Iberia; the Shoah; Modern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas; and beyond. Students at Cornell can also study Hebrew and Yiddish.