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Eshnav Program

Eshnav is the one-month annual academic training program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for select students (including academically excellent undergraduates, post-graduates and young academics already teaching in the field). The program includes work research in Israeli archives and libraries, offering individual mentoring and tutorials by leading Israeli academics, as well as Ulpan course and tours across the country.

The first Eshnav Summer University program in Israel took place on July 18 - August 7, 1997, and was organized by AYJS and Sefer Center in cooperation with the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization and the Melton Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Joint Authority for Jewish and Zionist education of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

It was the unprecedented initiative to gather the best FSU students of the academic Jewish studies programs in Jerusalem for 3 weeks of unique educational, mentoring, research and social experience (academic chair - Prof.Shaul Stampfer).

The goal of the “Eshnav” project was to introduce Israel - the world center of the Academic Jewish studies for the Jewish studies students from all over FSU. The selection to the project was competitive.

Eshnav participants project are granted a chance to conduct their own researches and projects by taking advantage of the rich educational resources located in universities. The participants also had an opportunity to attend the World Congress of Jewish studies and some other conferences, they learned about the Jewish studies programmes for graduate and post-graduate students in the Universities of Israel and experienced the Land and People of Israel.

For today almost 300 students, post-graduates and young researchers have joined the project "Eshnav" (some of them participated twice or more).