This MA is unique in the way that it offers a tailor-made programme for each student. Next to the introductory course ‘Doing Jewish Studies’ students will get a programme with tutorials and courses centred around their own interests. Any topic in the broad field of Jewish studies is possible, ranging from Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls, to Yiddish literature and Hebrew cinema, from Jews in colonial contexts to Amsterdam Jewish history. A highpoint in the programme is the International Winter School in Jewish Studies, organized by our faculty together with the Open University of Israel and King’s College London. MA students from all three universities visit together a third country for a week of lectures, debates, and excursions. The last few years the Winter School has been in Jerusalem, Athens and Thessalonica and Prague. Madrid is scheduled to be the next location. Finally, the programme offers ample opportunities for internships in museums, libraries, NGOs and other cultural and political institutions in the Netherlands and abroad.