The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Expands Its Support for Sephardic Studies at Brandeis University

Edmond J. Safra placed extraordinary importance on studying, preserving, and transmitting the richness of Sephardic Jewish history and culture. The Edmond J. Safra Foundation is proud to deepen that legacy at Brandeis University with a further $1.1 million gift, opening new horizons for the next generation of scholars.

This new commitment builds on the Foundation’s earlier endowment of the Edmond J. Safra Chair in Sephardic Studies – held by Professor Jonathan Decter – and reinforces Brandeis’s position as a global leader in the field.

Over the next six years, the grant will fund four doctoral students in Sephardic Studies. The Edmond J. Safra Doctoral Fellows will join one of the most robust and wide-ranging Jewish Studies graduate programs in the United States, enriched by strong instruction in Hebrew and Arabic and by three internationally recognized research centers: the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, and the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry.

Learn more: Brandeis University’s announcement.