Post by Brandeis University

Coming fall 2026, a public-facing Brandeis course examines the history of American Jewish life through lectures, discussions, recordings, and community engagement timed to the nation’s 250th anniversary. Moving chronologically and taught by 24 different experts, each class session will be professionally recorded and edited, and materials will be available online. This hybrid course offers individual, self-contained sessions and will run from August through December. “What we wanted to do is invite the public into our classroom with our professors and students, and be part of that semester-long experience,” said Flora Cassen, the inaugural Lavine Family Director of the Brandeis Center for Jewish Studies and co-organizer of the course, alongside Dalia Wassner, director of Jews of the Americas – an initiative of Brandeis at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies. Registration for “America and its Jews at 250: A Public Course” is open now. Learn more on Brandeis Stories: https://bit.ly/4gZFi1d