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The Swig Judaic Studies Program is a Jewish Studies Program at The University of San Francisco in San Francisco, California.

The program was funded by the Melvin Swig family over twenty years ago. It has the distinction of being the first Judaic Studies Program to be established at a Catholic University in the United States. The program enhances the interfaith efforts of the University of San Francisco both on and off campus by fostering an exchange of ideas and scholarship.

On campus, the endowment provides funding to offer Classes in Jewish Culture and Thought and Hebrew Programs, and it extends beyond the University of San Francisco to the larger San Francisco Bay Area community through the Swig Public Lecture Series.

The program also contributes to the Annual Writer Series, Ulpan San Francisco, The Flannery-Hyatt Institute for Interfaith Understanding, and Swig Judaic Studies Library Resources. The endowment ensures the continuity of this valuable program as a permanent part of the The University of San Francisco academic curriculum.

The Swig Public Lecture Series, sponsored by the Swig Judaic Studies Program at the University of San Francisco, is a free lecture series that is offered to the public in San Francisco, California.

Funded by Melvin Swig, a San Francisco businessmen and philanthropist, the series brings distinguished scholars to the University of San Francisco to lecture in the field of Jewish Studies.

Melvin Swig's dedication to interfaith dialogue and his commitment to academic instituitions inspired him to initiate the endowment for the Swig Judaic Studies Program at the University of San Francisco in the late 1970s. As the first Catholic University in the United States to establish a Jewish Studies program, the University of San Francisco especially welcomes scholarly inquiry into the historic relationship between Judaism and Christianity. The Swig Lecture is presented to the general public and subsequently published as a formal paper for distribution to colleagues in the U.S. and abroad.

Swig Judaic Studies Program http://www.usfca.edu/judaicstudies/

The Writer Series http://www.usfca.edu/judaicstudies/2005-06%20Writer%20Series.htm

Judaic Studies Lectures

Jewish-Catholic Relations in a Secular Age http://www.usfca.edu/judaicstudies/novak.html

The New Otherness: Marrano Dualities in the First Generation http://www.usfca.edu/judaicstudies/yovel.html

Inaugural Symposium of the Flannery-Hyatt Institute for Interfaith Understanding http://www.usfca.edu/judaicstudies/symposium.html

• The University of San Francisco

• official website (URL accessed 8-Apr-06)