Abraham S. Yahuda (1877–1951) was the first Jewish scholar to hold a chair in Jewish studies at a modern Western university—the University of Madrid. Here is the first known syllabus preserved by a modern professorial chair in Jewish studies. Neither of Yahuda’s nearest peers, Harry Wolfson at Harvard University and Salo W. Baron at Columbia University, seem to have safeguarded their original syllabi.

Michal Friedman and Allyson Gonzalez ask the history of Wissenschaft des Judentums to embrace to a fascinating and influential player whose legacy has, until now, been resigned to the periphery: A. S. Yahuda.