G9606 MESSIANIC AND SECTARIAN MOVEMENTS IN 7TH-16TH CENTURIES
Yosef H. Yerushalmi – M 2:10-4:00 – 513 Fayerweather Hall
Messianic activism and sectarianism, and the problem of medieval Jewish communal control and authority. Required of all graduate students in Jewish history. Qualified undergraduates with fluency in medieval and modern Hebrew may be admitted with the permission of the instructor.
G8607 MODERN JEWISH POLITICS
Michael Stanislawski - R 2:10-4:00 – 513 Fayerweather Hall
Middle East W1510 ELEMENTARY MODERN HEBREW I
MTWRF 9:00am-9:50am - Location: 511 Kent
An introduction to modern Hebrew, with equal emphasis on listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Middle East W1512 INTERMEDIATE MODERN HEBREW I
Section 001 - MTWRF 9:00am-9:50am - Location:
307 Math
Section 002 - MTWRF 10:00am-10:50am - Location:
307 Math
Prerequisite: Hebrew W1510-W1511 or the equivalent. Vocabulary building, grammar, practice in conversation, reading comprehension, and composition.
Middle East W1514 UPPER INTERMEDIATE HEBREW I
MTWR 10:00am-10:50am - Location: 301M
Fayerweather
Prerequisite: Hebrew W1510-W1511 or the equivalent. Vocabulary building, grammar, practice in conversation, reading comprehension, and composition.
Middle East W4510 ADVANCED MODERN HEBREW I
Ruth Raphaeli-Slivko - MWR 12:00pm-12:50pm - 522B Kent Hall
Prerequisite: Hebrew W1510-W1511 or the equivalent. Vocabulary building, grammar, practice in conversation, reading comprehension, and composition.
Middle East W4512 READINGS IN HEBREW TEXTS I
Ruth Raphaeli-Slivko - MWR 1:00pm-1:50pm - 522B Kent Hall
Prerequisite: Hebrew W1510-W1511 or the equivalent. Vocabulary building, grammar, practice in conversation, reading comprehension, and composition.
Middle East W4514 ADVANCED HEBREW CONVERSATION I
Section 1 - Ruth Raphaeli-Slivko - T 12-12:50 p.m. – 52BA Ketn all
Section 2 - Ruth Raphaeli-Slivko - T 1:10-2:00 p.m. - 522B Kent
Hall
This course is open only to students enrolled in Advanced Hebrew as an
optional fourth weekly hour, or to students who attended Advanced Hebrew in the past.
Middle East W3542 INTRODUCTION TO ISRAELI LITERATURE
Dan Miron - MW 1:10pm-2:25pm - Location: 301 Fayerweather
Comp.Lit.-Middle East G4524 EAST & WEST IN ISRAELI
CULTURE
Uri Cohen - W 6:10pm 08:00pm - 628 Kent Hall
Middle East G6530 DYNAMICS OF ISRAELI CULTURE & POETRY
Dan Miron - T 9:00am-10:50am - Location: 522A Kent HallComp
Lit Middle East W4322 LITERATURE OF CATASTROPHE
Dan Miron - MW 2:40pm-3:50pm - Location: 405 Kent
Hall
Reading of survivors testimonies and philosophical accounts
focusing on the Jhe$
Holocaust and the Armenian Catastrophe, with a particular emphasis
on the failu$
Comp Lit Middle East W4322 LITERATURE OF CATASTROPHE
Dan Miron - MW 2:40pm-3:50pm - Location: 405 Kent Hall
Reading of survivors’ testimonies and philosophical accounts focusing on the Jewish olocaust H
Holocaust and the Armenian Catastrophe, with a particular emphasis on the failures of memory and the limits of literary representation.
Religion V2505 JUDAISM
Alan F Segal - MW 11:00am-12:15pm - Location: TBA
A historical overview of Jewish belief and practice as these have crystallized and changed over the centuries. Special attention to ritual and worship, the forms of religious literature, central concepts, religious leadership and institutions, Israel among the nations.
Religion V3571 ISSUES IN MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT
Jonathan Schorsch - MW 11:00am-12:15pm - Location: C01 - 80
Claremont
This course examines some of the major statements in Jewish thought from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – hasidic, reformist and orthodox.
Religion W4510 THE THOUGHT OF MAIMONIDES
David C Shatz - T 6:10pm-8:00pm - Location: 101 - 80 Claremont
A close examination of Maimonides' major ideas, with emphasis on the relationship between law and philosophy; biblical interpretation; the nature of God; creation and providence; human nature; ethics and law; human perfection.
Religion W4811 MYSTICAL DIMENSIONS OF ISLAM AND JUDAISM
Elliot Wolfson - R 6:10pm-8:00pm - Location: 101 - 80
Claremont
The course will explore mystical dimentions that have evolved in Judaism
and Islam in a comparative perspective with the aim of pointing to
similarities and differences between the two major religions of Abraham.
Topics to be discussed include: mystical experience and the possibility
of union in a theistic tradition; the sanctity of scriptural language and
the limits of speech; meditation, prayer and contemplative ascent; erotic
asceticism and ascetic eroticism; hermeneutics of secrecy and cultivation
of occult fraternities; ethical dualism and mystical antinomianism;
mystical quest for unity and the blurring of social boundaries.
Yiddish W1101 ELEMENTARY YIDDISH I
Section 001 Miriam Hoffman - MTR 11:00am-12:25pm - 317 Hamilton Hall
Section 002 MTR 1:10pm-2:35pm Location: 316 Hamilton Hall
Section 003 MTR 6:10pm-7:25pm Location: 315 Hamilton Hall
Language Lab: one fifty-minute period every other week. Credit is not given for Yiddish W1101 until Yiddish W1102 has been completed. With the instructor's permission the second term may be taken without the first. Thorough study of elementary Yiddish grammar, with reading, composition, and oral practice. The cultural and linguistic background of the language.
Yiddish W1102 ELEMENTARY YIDDISH II
MTR 6:10pm-7:25pm Location: 408 Hamilton Hall
Language Lab: one fifty-minute period every other week. Credit is not given for Yiddish W1101 until Yiddish W1102 has been completed. With the instructor's permission the second term may be taken without the first. Thorough study of elementary Yiddish grammar, with reading, composition, and oral practice. The cultural and linguistic background of the language.
Yiddish W1201 INTERMEDIATE YIDDISH I
Miriam Hoffman MTR 1:10pm-2:20pm Location: 317 Hamilton Hall
Language Lab: one fifty-minute period every other week. Credit is not given for Yiddish W1101 until Yiddish W1102 has been completed. With the instructor's permission the second term may be taken without the first. Thorough study of elementary Yiddish grammar, with reading, composition, and oral practice. The cultural and linguistic background of the language.
Yiddish W3333 ADVANCED YIDDISH I
Miriam Hoffman MW 2:40pm-3:55pm Location: 406 Hamilton Hall
Language Lab: one fifty-minute period every other week. Credit is not
given for Yiddish W1101 until Yiddish W1102 has been completed. With the
instructor's permission the second term may be taken without the first.
Thorough study of elementary Yiddish grammar, with reading, composition, and oral practice. The cultural and linguistic background of the language.
Yiddish W3500 YIDDISH LITERATURE: A SURVEY IN TRANSLATION
Jeremy Dauber - TR 2:40p.m.-3:55p.m. - 404 Hamilton Hall
Requirements: All readings will be in translation. No experience with
Yiddish or Jewish literature necessary. An introduction to literature
in Yiddish, ranging over eight centuries and three continents. The survey
will focus on the great works by major Yiddish writers, but will also pay
attention to how these writers reflect and represent changing trends in
Jewish life. Writers considered will include Gluckel of Hameln, Nachman
of Bratslav, S. Y. Abramovitch, Sholem Aleichem, I.L. Peretz, Lamed Shapiro,
David Bergelson, Sholem Asch, Itzik Manger, Sh. An-sky, Chaim Grade, and
Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Yiddish G9501 TWENTIETH CENTURY YIDDISH PROSE
Jeremy Dauber - T 4:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m. - 326 IAB
Requirements: Knowledge of Yiddish. A look at the major Yiddish
prose writers of the post-"klasiker" period. Particular attention will be
paid to authorial style and to questions of literary influence and
exchange, but also to questions of Jewish historical and political
considerations as treated in the literature of the time. Writers read
will include Sholem Asch, Dovid Bergelson, H.D. Nomberg, Der Nister, I.B.
Singer, Joseph Opatoschu, Lamed Shapiro, and I.M. Weissenberg.
GER G6745 EUROPEAN CULTURE AND THE JEWS: THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH
CENTURIES
Steven E. Aschheim - W 2:10-4:00 p.m. - 1 Deutsches Haus
This course will examine some of the multiple intersections between
European (mainly, but not exclusively, German-speaking) culture and the
modern Jewish experience. It will seek to analyse some of the complex and
creative ways in which Jews sought to internalize, appropriate and
renegotiate aspects of European culture. It will attempt to map out the
dynamics and ironies of these changing personal and collective
self-definitions and realte them to varous intellectual and artistic
creations. We will also trace the multiple ways in which Jews were
represented and the functiosn that these portrayals and stereotypes played
within the broader culture. In addition, this course will examine some of
the prolematics of the "Jewish intellectual" and probe som eof the
surprising connections between "culture and catastrophe" thqa tthis
encounter entailed. The seminar will examine these links as they
manifested themselves in the work of such thinkers as Karl Marx (On the
Jewish Question), Richard Wagner (Judaism and Music), Max
Nordau (Degeneration),and others; in case-studies of Vienna and the
Weimar Republic; in Zionism; and in anti-semitism and the Holocaust.