Elte Assziriológiai És Hebraisztikai Tanszék, Budapest

The Center of Jewish Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was established by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (New York) in 1987 as a teaching and scholarly research institution, with Prof. Géza Komoróczy as its head. At the time, the main goal of the Center was to pursue researches in Jewish culture, history (with a special respect to the history of Jews in Hungary) and tradition (including Bible and rabbinics). On the one hand, we wanted to establish Jewish Studies on an academic (university) level, as a university major, which had not existed in Hungary ever before, and on the other hand, to combine university teaching with research. Masters in Jewish Studies In a joint program with the Department of Cuneiform (Assyriology) and Hebrew, the Center introduced a Jewish Studies major at the Philosophical faculty of the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest in 1989. The Jewish Studies major, fitting into the current university system of Hungary .