Winter 2010

January 4 - March 14
Check the university website (http://www.sa.pdx.edu/soc/) for locations two weeks prior to the beginning of the term.

Hst 344U Jews & Judaism in the U.S. Since 1945
MW 2:00 - 3:50
Maizels

Topics include immigrant culture and memory; antisemitism; postwar affluence and migration; the counterculture; Jewish-black relations; liberalism, radicalism, and neoconservativism; feminism and the transformation of women's roles; the revival of orthodoxy.

Hst 399 The Holocaust
TTh 2:00 - 3:50
Meir

An introduction to the Nazi-planned and executed genocide of European Jewry that has come to be known as the Holocaust. Topics includes the German and European contexts for the rise of Nazism; the nature of antisemitism and its links to Nazi ideology and policy; the circumstances of European Jewry in the interwar period; the "Final Solution"; the nature and definition of resistance; the question of the "bystanders"; and varieties of responses to the Holocaust.

Eng 308 Messiahs in Modern Jewish Literature 
TTh 8:00 - 10:00
Weingrad

How have the religious concepts of redemption, apocalypse, and messianism been transformed in modern Jewish literature? How are these concepts used to convey the experience of secular modernity, of Zionist state-building, of the Holocaust? We will read a range of novels and poems by major modern writers such as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Uri Zvi Greenberg, all in English translation, as well as theoretical and historical essays about Jewish messianic movements from antiquity to the present. Recommended: a course in modern Jewish literature or history.

Eng 410/510 Baghdad: Cities of Modern Jewish Literature
T 5:30 - 9:10
Weingrad

In the early 20th century it is estimated that Jews comprised as much as one third of the population of the city of Baghdad. This course looks at novels, stories, and memoirs dealing with the Jewish experience in this extraordinary city, as well as the ways in which this experience has been memorialized after it came to an abrupt end in the 1950s.

Heb 102 First-Year Hebrew
MWF 9:00-10:05
Yariv

Heb 202 Second-Year Hebrew
MWF 11:30-12:35
Yariv

Heb 302 Third-Year Hebrew
MWF 2:00-3:05
Yariv