The Ashkenazium (Gradute School for Jewish Studies in Budapest), Milton Friedman University
Contact details
Vasvári Pál utca 5Budapest 1061
Hungary
Email: office@ashkenazium.eu
https://www.ashkenazium.eu/
Head of Department/Director
Dean Prof. Michael Chighel
Email: chighel@ashkenazium.eu
Activites
Awards degrees in Jewish Studies as a sole or major componentMA Ashkenazi Jewish Studies
Pursues academic research activities
Degrees offered
MA Ashkenazi Jewish Studies
Main research activities
Opened in 2021, the studies at the school are focused on Ashkenazi life and letters. This special focus is based on the conviction that Jewish existence since the Second World War, with its two great demographic and cultural centres in Israel and in America, stands to make considerable gains in self-understanding through interdisciplinary studies of the Jewish people’s millennial sojourn in Europe. The studies avoid both any antiquarian nostalgia for a lost world and any sanguine dreams of an Ashkenazi renaissance. They are oriented by the major questions facing Jews today, turning a critical eye to the rich and complex background of these contemporary questions in European Jewish life and letters. The founders of the Ashkenazium are Rabbi Dr. Slomó Köves, the Executive Rabbi of the United Hungarian Jewish Congregation, and Dániel Bodnár, President of the Milton Friedman University.
There is a Jewish Studies library