Fall 2018
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HEBR 101 First Semester Modern HebrewRuth Rosenwald, Lecturer, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ MWF 12:00-12:50 HUM 279 |
HEBR 201 Third Semester Modern HebrewRuth Rosenwald, Lecturer, Jewish Studies 3Units/ MWF 1:00-1:50 HUM 381 |
JS 280 Introduction to Jewish StudiesMarc Dollinger, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ T 4:00-6:45 HUM 277 |
JS 377 JerusalemEran Kaplan, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ T Th 12:30-1:45 CA 255 |
JS 430 Israeli Democracy: Politics, Institutions, and SocietyEran Kaplan, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ TTh 9:30-10:45 HUM 286 |
JS 437 Holocaust and LiteratureKitty Millet, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ T Th 9:30-10:45 HUM 382 |
JS 468 Israeli Media Landscape: Journalism, Communications, and SocietyAnat Balint, Israel Institute Visiting Professor 3 Units/ M W 12:30-1:45 BH 223 |
JS 501 Judaism, Christianity, and IslamFred Astren, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ M W 2:00-3:15 HUM 121 |
JS 540 Anti-SemitismMarc Dollinger, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ T Th 2:00-3:15 HUM 374 |
JS 548 The Jewish Sixties: A Journey through the Social Protest Movements of the 1960sMarc Dollinger, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ T Th 11:00-12:15 HSS 152 |
JS 632 Jewish History I: Beginnings to 1650Fred Astren, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ Th 4:00-6:45 HSS 153 |
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Spring 2018
HEBR 102Second Semester Modern Hebrew Ruth Rosenwald, Lecturer, Jewish Studies 3Units/ MWF 1:10-2:00 HUM 208 Continuation of first semester modern Hebrew. |
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HEBR 202Fourth Semester Modern Hebrew Ruth Rosenwald, Lecturer, Jewish Studies 3Units/ MWF 12:10-1:00 HUM 211 Continuation of modern Hebrew at the intermediate level. |
JS 301Judaism: An Introduction Rachel Gross, Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ TTh 9:35-10:50 HUM 277 Explores religious and cultural practices of Judaism in United States by surveying religious practices of Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist Jewish congregations. Relates these practices to Jewish experience and history. |
JS 408Israeli Cinema Eran Kaplan, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ Th 5:10-7:55 HUM 386 Survey of Israeli cinema with critical readings. |
JS 410Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism Kitty Millet, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ TTh 9:35-10:50 HUM 121 The spiritual life and various ways in which Jews have sought spiritual resources from Jewish tradition. Topics include: Kabbalah, Jewish renewal, feminist spirituality, grieving the Holocaust. |
JS 415The Hebrew Bible Kenneth Cohen, Lecturer, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ W 3:10-5:55 HUM 384 The Hebrew Bible in English translation from historical, literary, and religious points of view; culture and religion of ancient Israel and the ancient Near East. |
JS 421Food Fights: The Politics of American Jewish Consumption, 1654-Present Rachel Gross, Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ TTh 2:10-3:25 HSS 152 Exploration of the politics of religion, food, and eating among Jews in the US from the late nineteenth century to the present. Focus on American Jewish foodways: cultural, social, historical, political, and economic practices of food production and consumption that have sustained and demarcated Jewish communities. |
JS 467On the Cultural Frontlines: Contemporary Trends in Israeli Art Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Visiting Artist in Israeli Studies 3 Units/ W 9:10-11:55 HUM 277 |
JS 480European Jewish Writers Kitty Millet, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ TTh 12:35-1:50 HUM 583 Survey of the works of modern Jewish writers throughout Europe between the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries; influence of the Jewish Enlightenment on modern Jewish literature. |
JS 501Judaism, Christianity, Islam Fred Astren, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ MW 1:10-2:25 HUM 129 Beliefs, practices, social organization, and history of the three monotheistic religious traditions; importance of these traditions for European and Middle Eastern civilizations. |
JS 54620th Century American Jewish Women Writers Kitty Millet, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ T 3:35-6:20 HUM 382 Exploration through novels, short fiction, and memoir the connections American women forge and the tensions they experience via encounters with self, family, Judaism, American society, and world history. |
JS 560Arab-Israeli Conflict Eran Kaplan, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ TTh 12:35-1:50 HUM 129 Examination of causes of the Arab-Israeli conflict; beginnings in the late nineteenth century; Jewish-Palestinian confrontation during the British Mandate (1917-1948); Arab-Israeli wars since 1948; Israeli-Palestinian confrontation since 1948; attempts to end the confrontation since 1967. |
JS 633Jewish History II: 1650 to Present Marc Dollinger, Professor, Jewish Studies 3 Units/ TTh 11:00-12:15 HSS 152 Jewish history from 1650 to present. Central theme is the encounter of traditional ethnic and religious minority with modernity. Topics: emancipation, antisemitism, immigration, Zionism, Israel, America, Holocaust. |