All topics and themes in the broad field of Jewish studies are possible. Through the tailormade programme the MA accommodates a broad variety of specializations. In the last few years students have specialized, amongst others, in histories of Caribbean Jews, memory cultures of Brazilian Jewry, early modern Yiddish pinkasim, contested Jewish religious rites in modernity, Arab movies in the Israeli cinema, Political identities of American Jewry, Arab Jewish (anti-)Zionisms, Second Temple Period Judaism, Haskalah, and Sephardic Kabbalah.