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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (back to top)

Comp Lit 210 The Bible as Literature

Comp Lit 278: Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation: Pre-1939

Comp Lit 278 Hebrew Literature in Translation 2: Dilemmas of Israeli Identity

Comp Lit 278-1 Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation: The European Period

Comp Lit 279 Modern Jewish Literature

Comp Lit 310 Studies in Literary Genres: Storytelling in Modern Jewish Literature

Comp Lit 390 Messianism, Mysticism and Magic in Modern Jewish Literature

ENGLISH (back to top)

English 205 Writing About Children and the Holocaust

English 368 Studies in 20th Century Literature : Representing the Holocaust

English 368 The Rise of Israeli Women’s Prose

English 378-21 Studies in American Literature: Jewish American Literature

GENDER STUDIES (back to top)

Gender Studies 382\0 (Also listed as 390) Gender, Race, and the Holocaust

GERMAN (back to top)

German 111-1-20 First Year Yiddish

German 112-1-20 Intermediate Yiddish

German 113 Intensive Elementary Yiddish

German 234 Jews and Germans: An Intercultural History

German 242- Imagining Modern Jewish Culture in Yiddish and German

German 335 An Introduction to Yiddish Literature in English Translation

HEBREW LANGUAGE (formerly AAL - AFRICAN and ASIAN LANGUAGES)

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AAL 101 Hebrew 1 **

AAL 102 Hebrew 2 **

AAL 203 Hebrew 3

AAL 316-1-20 Topics in Hebrew Literature,

AAL 355-1-20 Hebrew Literature

HISTORY (back to top)

History 101 Freshman Seminar : The Rise Of The Nazis, 1928-34

History 101 Freshman Seminar: Poland, WWII and the Holocaust

History 101 Freshman Seminar: The Images of the Jew in Modern Literature

History 203 Pre-Modern and Early Modern Jewish History (1492-1789)

History 203 Modern Jewish History 1748-1948

History 300 Historical Background to the Establishment of Israel: the 1920s-1940s

History 300 Jews and Muslims in the Islamic Middle Ages: Cross-Cultural Interactions

History 300 Medieval Jewish History

History 300 Jewish and Christian Responses to Natural Disaster

History 300 Jewish Messianic Movements: The History of the End of History

History 348 Jews in Eastern Europe, 1917-1991

History 349 History of the Holocaust

History 374 Historical Background of Jewish-Muslim Relations

History 391 Eastern European Jewish Experience from the 10-19th Centuries

History 391 The Nascent State of Israel: Identity, Nation-Building, and Ethnicity

History 391 Modern Jewish History

History 391 Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire

History 391 Jews in the USSR, 1917-1991

History 392/395 Arabs in a Jewish State: the Arab Minority in Israel

History 392/395 Religious Conversion in Early Modern Mediterranean World

History 392/395 The Six-Day War (1967)

History 392/395 The Making of the Shtetl: Cultural History of the Jewish Town in Poland

History 392/395 Imagining the Jew: Western Literary Encounters with Jewish History

History 392/395 Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism

History 392/395 African Americans and Jews in the 20th Century

History 392/395 Jews in Modern America

History 392/395 Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Thought

History 392/295 Readings in Hasidism and Jewish Mysticism

History 392/395 Historical Background of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

History 392/395 Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

History 392/395 The Cold War and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

History 392/395 Between History and Memory: Jewish Autobiography as a Historical Source

History 392/395 Political Islam in the Contemporary Middle East

History 392/395-30 Blood Libel: Magic, Torture, Cannibalism

History 395-40 Holocaust Survivor Research

JEWISH STUDIES (back to top)

101-6 Freshman Seminar Job’s Tears:

Jewish Response to Suffering from the Bible to Maus

JS 278 (Cross-listed with Comp. Lit) Hebrew Literature in Translation:

The Israeli Period

JS 278-1 (Cross-listed with Comp. Lit) Hebrew Lit in Translation:

The European Period

JS 379 (Cross-listed with English) Storytelling in American Jewish Literature

JS 350 Representing the Holocaust in Literature and Film

PHILOSOPHY (back to top)

Philosophy 311 Studies in Medieval “Maimonides”

POLITICAL SCIENCE (back to top)

Political Science 376 Immigration and Militarization: Sociological Aspects of

Israeli Society

Political Science 390 Media & the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Political Science 390 Government and Politics in Israel

Poli Sci 395 (Previously offered as 390) Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Political Science 395 Politics and Society in Israel

RELIGIOUS STUDIES (back to top)

Religion 101 (Freshman Seminar) Introduction to Kabbalah
Religion 220 Introduction to Hebrew Bible
Religion 230 Introduction to Judaism Religion 320 Art of Biblical Narrative
Religion 321 Prophecy in Ancient Israel
Religion 329 Topics in Bible: Biblical Text in Hebrew:
Religion 329 Topics in Bible: The Book of Samuel
Religion 329 Topics in Bible: Modern Debates About the Hebrew Bible
Religion 329 Topics in Bible: History and History Writing in Ancient Israel
Religion 329 Topics in Bible: King Solomon The Man and Myth: Texts from

Samuel, Kings and Chronicles
Religion 329 Topics in Bible: Jeremiah: Prophet and Revolutionary
Religion 329 Topics in Bible: Moses and David
Religion 329 Topics in the Bible: In the Persian Time
Religion 329 Topics in Hebrew Bible: Archaeology & Hebrew Bible
Religion 329 Varieties of God in the Hebrew Bible
Religion 330 Varieties of Ancient Judaism
Religion 330 Ancient Judaism: Sacred and Profane
Religion 331 Classical Jewish Thought
Religion 333 Jewish Women Writers and the Search for Religion
Religion 339 Topics in Judaism: Modern Jewish Thought
Religion 339 Topics in Judaism: American Judaism
Religion 339 Topics in Judaism: Reading Talmud in Translation
Religion 339 Gender and Judaism
Religion 339 Topics in Judaism: Good and Evil: Readings in the Ethics of

Levinas and Arendt
Religion 339 Art of Rabbinic Literature
Religion 339 The Sabbath in Rabbinic Literature
Religion 339 Midrashic Text in Hebrew
Religion 351 Muhammad, the Jews, and the Origins of Islam
Religion 352 Biblical Themes in Muslim Tradition
Religion 379 Topic in Comparative Religion: Jewish and Christian Response

to Natural Disaster

SOCIOLOGY (back to top)

Sociology 327 Comparing Youth Cultures: Focus on Israel

Sociology 376 Cultural Encounters: Focus on Israel

Sociology 376 Gender and Society in Israel

Sociology 376 Media and Society: Focus on Israel

SPANISH (back to top)

Spanish 232 Discovering Jewish Latin America

Spanish 397 Discovering Jewish Latin America: From Jewish Gauchos

to Cosmopolitan Culture in Argentina

SCHOOL OF CONTINUING STUDIES (back to top)

Continuing Studies 300 Introduction to Judaism

379-CN Sec. 64 The Bible and Islam

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL POLICY (back to top)

Teach_Ed 351 The Holocaust and Education: The 21st Century