Undergraduate Studies

The Faculty of Letters, Babeş-Bolyai University, offers a three-year BA programme with a minor in Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Students coming from other specialisations also have the possibility of studying Hebrew as a third foreign language. The curriculum comprises intensive courses of Hebrew, Yiddish, Jewish Culture and Civilisation, Cultural Trends in Judaism, History of the Jewish Literature, Yiddish Literature and Culture, Jewish Writers in the Diaspora, History of the Hebrew Religious Book, Romanian Jewish Writers.

A description of the BA with a minor in Hebrew and Jewish Studies is available here.

Details about admission to the programme can be accessed here.

Postgraduate Studies

The Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeş-Bolyai University, offers a two-year MA programme in Jewish Studies. The curriculum comprises courses such as the General History of the Jews, History of the Jews in Romania, Jewish Philosophy and Thought, Jewish Culture and Civilisation, Hebrew, Yiddish, Yiddish Literature and Press in Romania, History of the Hebrew Religious Book, Memory and History, Jewish Writers in the Diaspora, Religion and the Conflict in the Middle East.

A description of the MA in Jewish Studies is available here.

Details about admission to the programme can be accessed here.

Teacher Training Seminars

Between 2000-2010, the Dr. Moshe Carmilly Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History Institute organised an annual teaching-training seminar titled “Teaching the Holocaust in the schools of Romania”. The participants were history teachers representing counties from across Romania, who were given lectures on how to teach the Holocaust in schools. Coordinated by Dr. Maria Radosav, Senior Lecturer, the seminar was organised by the Dr. Moshe Carmilly Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History in partnership with the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Babeş-Bolyai University, the Institute of Oral History of the Babeş-Bolyai University, Yad Vashem – The International School for Holocaust Studies, Jerusalem, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research), and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

Each year, 30 history teachers from across Romania attended the seminar. The program included lectures on the history of the Jews, antisemitism, and the Holocaust, taught by lecturers from the Babeş-Bolyai University and by guest lecturers from Israel, France, and the United States. This programme also included courses on the methodology of teaching the Holocaust in schools, coordinated by experts from Yad Vashem – The International School for Holocaust Studies, Jerusalem, and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research). The programme also included meetings with survivors of concentration camps, trips to memorial places connected to the Holocaust in Northern Transylvania and to the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

All of the history teachers who took part in the seminar prepared an individual project about teaching the Holocaust in schools, which they presented the following year to the new group of participants to the program. After presenting their own teaching project, the participants were awarded a certificate by the Babeş-Bolyai University, by which they became instructors specialised in teaching about the Holocaust in their respective counties.

This teaching-training seminar organised by the Dr. Moshe Carmilly Institute for Hebrew and Jewish history gained international reputation due to its didactic, formative and scientific value, and was classified by international experts as the third best programme of its kind, after those organised by Yad Vashem – The International School for Holocaust Studies, Jerusalem, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.