Baltimore Hebrew University

 
5800 Park Heights Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21215

Baltimore Hebrew University is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and was founded in 1919 as a college to promote Jewish scholarship and academic excellence in its students. Academics at the Maryland school focus on the relationship between Jewish civilization and world civilization. Baltimore Hebrew University offers its students courses in Hebrew language and literary sources and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Graduate programs at Baltimore Hebrew University are offered in Jewish studies, Jewish education, and Jewish communal service. The Maryland school also offers a doctoral program in Jewish studies, with several concentrations including Bible, history, and Jewish thought and mysticism. Students at Baltimore Hebrew University have the option to enroll in an early childhood Jewish education certificate program.

Baltimore Hebrew University also operates the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman School of Continuing Education, which is open to all members of the community to provide lifelong learning. Non-credit courses are offered in Hebrew, Yiddish, Jewish philosophy, and Jewish history, music, art, and literature.

A 100-hour study program called Me'ah offers a small group of students the opportunity to study with faculty from Baltimore Hebrew University for two years. The first year of study covers Hebrew Bible and rabbinics, while the second year focuses on medieval and modern Jewish history. Another program called Limud partners full-time faculty members from Baltimore Hebrew University with area synagogues or Jewish organizations and institutions. Faculty members give two free lectures per academic year.

Quick Facts:

Baltimore Hebrew University is located 50 miles north of Washington, D.C., in the center of Baltimore's Jewish community.

Baltimore Hebrew University does not offer its students any on-campus housing options.

The Maryland school is surrounded by almost 100,000 people living in more than 35,000 Jewish households.

Baltimore Hebrew University offers its students scholarships that can be used toward full-time or part-time study. The Maryland school also has a limited number of fellowships available for its students.

The Joseph Meyerhoff Library at Baltimore Hebrew University contains more than 80,000 volumes in its collection and is the largest independent Judaica library in the Southeast.

Baltimore Hebrew University's library is home to more than 100 videotaped testimonials from Holocaust survivors and other witnesses that were collected by the Baltimore Jewish Community Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.