FALL 2010 JUDAIC STUDIES COURSES

NEW COURSES

JST 201 Making Jews Modern
Prof. Natan Meir and Prof. Michael Weingrad
TTh 10-11:50

The fascinating story of the Jewish encounter with the modern world, told through film, historical source-texts, poems, photographic archives, scholarly essays, and music.  You’ll be introduced to the personalities, projects, locales, and sounds of Jewish modernity, from Moscow to New York, from Warsaw to Tel Aviv, from Baghdad to Los Angeles, from 200 years ago to the present day.

HST 399 Ancient Jewish History
Prof. Loren Spielman
MW 2:00-3:50

This course examines Jewish culture during the Second Temple Period from the reign of Cyrus the Great until the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome. We will look at the complex relationship between Jewish society and Persian, Greek, and Roman imperial cultures, the growth of the Jewish Diaspora, sectarianism (including the Dead Sea scrolls), and the crisis precipitated by the destruction of the Jerusalem temple.

OTHER COURSES

ENG 330U Jewish & Israeli Literature
MWF 9-10:05

HST 344U Jews & Judaism in the United States Since 1945
MW 2-3:50

HST 399 The Holocaust
TTh 2:00-3:50

ENG 318 The Bible as Literature
MWF 3:15-4:20

HEB 101 First Year Hebrew
MWF 9-10:05

HEB 201 Second Year Hebrew
MWF 11:30-12:35

HEB 301 Third Year Hebrew
MWF 2-3:05

List of planned Winter Courses: The Religion of Ancient Israel; Rabbinic Culture in Late Antiquity; The Shtetl; History of Zionism; Messiahs in Modern Jewish Literature; History of Antisemitism; Hebrew.

List of planned Spring Courses: Retelling the Bible; The Shtetl; Israel in the Eyes of the West; Hebrew.