Community Text Study Program

Community Text Study Program

Join our Community Text Study Program

Meetings twice a month September through April

The Melton Center’s community text study program offers participants the opportunity to study Jewish topics from an academic perspective. The sessions are held twice a month on Zoom during the academic year, are 1.5 hours long, and are led by our faculty.
Last year we studied a range of topics that included: historical approaches to Italian Jewish humanists in the Renaissance; medieval Jewish perspectives on the bible as literature and the Israel-Hamas War, to name a few.
There are short reading assignments before each session, and there is no cost to join.
 
Community Text Study Schedule Fall 2026
September 2, 2026:
Yet More about Italian Jews
Matt Goldish
https://history.osu.edu/people/goldish.1
 
September 9, 2026:
Yet More about Italian Jews
Matt Goldish
https://history.osu.edu/people/goldish.1
 
October 14, 2026
Jewish Approaches to the Song of Songs
Daniel Frank
https://nesa.osu.edu/people/frank.152
 
October 21, 2026:
Jewish Approaches to the Song of Songs
Daniel Frank
https://nesa.osu.edu/people/frank.152
 
November 18
TBA
 
December 2, 2026
TBA
 
For more information and to join the text study sessions contact Tamar Becker, becker.905@osu.edu