The Posen Foundation works internationally as a service provider to
support secular Jewish education and educational initiatives on
Jewish culture in the modern period and the process of Jewish
secularization over the past three centuries. At a time when the
majority of world Jewry defines itself as secular and is not well
educated in Jewish culture, the Foundation offers this growing
community the opportunity to deepen and enrich the study of its
cultural and historic heritage - from a secular, scholarly perspective.
The
Foundation has pioneered multiple education initiatives, such as supporting the development of college and university curricula on Jewish secularism and
secularization; encouraging research into the history, languages, and
cultures of the Jews; supporting academic conferences on Jewish
secularism, the Jewish secular, and Judaism as Culture; and funding
teachers' professional development programs, large-scale publishing projects, and
demographic surveys. The Foundation is committed to supporting the academic study of Jewish secularism. Through its signature
grant program, the Posen Project, more than three-dozen institutions of
higher education have developed courses in Jewish secularization and
Judaism as Culture. The Foundation is also deeply committed to the
understanding of historic and modern antisemitism, and has been the
primary financial supporter of the Center for the Study of Antisemitism
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since its inception in 1982.
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