We also sponsor visiting faculty and bring a wide array of visitors to campus each semester for talks and lectures. Students can avail themselves of excellent library resources to pursue virtually any aspect of Jewish studies. Soon these will include the new Leonard L. Milberg '53 collection of Jewish-American writers, to be housed in Firestone Library. The Near Eastern studies collection, for example, contains over 26,000 modern and rabbinic Hebrew printed books, comparable in quantity and quality to the holdings of other American universities with strong Jewish studies curricula. The program awards the Carolyn L. Drucker '80 Prize for the best senior thesis or theses on a Jewish studies subject.
All undergraduates are eligible for nomination by their departments.
We are now developing a junior year abroad program in Jerusalem specifically for Princeton undergraduates, in which students can improve their competency in Hebrew while taking electives that fulfill the program requirements. They can also undertake summer courses in Yiddish, which are offered in this country and abroad. The program has resources, although modest at present, to assist students in such study elsewhere as well as for senior thesis research. The requirements for the certificate in Jewish studies are compatible with the requirements for departmental concentrations of all types, enabling students to explore Jewish themes within their chosen field of study as well as other disciplines. The certificate can be used to demonstrate serious academic grounding in Jewish studies for students intending to pursue Jewish academic or professional careers.