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The Harris Center for Judaic Studies promotes and supports scholarship in Jewish Studies at UNL. Founded in 1991 with an emphasis on educating the people of the Great Plains region about Jewish civilization and the nature and history of anti-Semitism, today the Harris Center serves as a hub of academic activity and public programming.
The Center administers an interdisciplinary minor in Jewish Studies, support for undergraduate and graduate research, and a scholarly community for faculty working on topics related to Jewish Studies, broadly conceived. We also offer a wide range of public lectures and conferences.
A copy of the Tanakh on the Director's bookshelf.
The ancient synagogue at Dura Europos, in what is now modern Syria, dating from 200-300 CE.
Zabel's, a grocery store owned by a Jewish family in Omaha in the early 20th century. Courtesy of Marcia Kushner.
A visit from Israel's Chief Sephardic Rabbi to the historic synagogue of Porto, Portugal, 2004. Courtesy of Naomi Leite.
Poster for a Krivosha Lecture, one of the Harris Center's several endowed lecture series.
Passover Seder, UNL Hillel/Jewish Student Association, March 25, 2013.
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Note: The Harris Center will be closed during the intersession period. Email sent to the office will be checked periodically during the intersession.