JEWISHST 481: Research Seminar in Middle East History (HISTORY 481, JEWISHST 287S)
Student-selected research topics.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Crews, R. (PI)
JEWISHST 486A: Graduate Research Seminar in Jewish History (HISTORY 486A)
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
JEWISHST 486B: Graduate Research Seminar in Jewish History (HISTORY 486B)
Prerequisite:
HISTORY 486A.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
JEWISHST 107B: Biblical Hebrew, Second Quarter (AMELANG 170B)
Continuation of 170A
JEWISHST 146: Co-Existence in Hebrew Literature (AMELANG 175, COMPLIT 161)
Is co-existence possible? Does pluralism require co-existence? Can texts serve as forms of co-existence? The class will focus on these and other questions related to coexistence and literature. Through reading works mostly by Jewish authors writing in Europe, Israel and the US we will explore attempts for complete equality, for a variety of hierarchical systems and for different kinds of co-dependence. Guest speaker: professor Anat Weisman, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
JEWISHST 199B: Directed Reading in Yiddish, Second Quarter
For intermediate or advanced students. May be repeated for credit.
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Baker, Z. (PI)
JEWISHST 205: Reading Hebrew, First Quarter (AMELANG 250A)
Introduction to Hebrew literature through short stories and poetry by notable Israeli writers. In Hebrew. Prerequisite: one year of Hebrew or equivalent.
JEWISHST 224: Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics, Philosophy and Religion (JEWISHST 324, RELIGST 234, RELIGST 334)
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is a major French philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century and is among the half-dozen most important Jewish thinkers of the century. Born in Lithuania, Levinas lived most of his life in France; he was primarily a philosopher but also a deeply committed Jewish educator who often lectured and wrote about Judaism and Jewish matters. Levinas was influenced by Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, and others, like Buber and Rosenzweig. We will look at the philosophical world in which he was educated and explore his unique development as a philosopher in the years after World War Two. Levinas reacted against the main tendencies of Western philosophy and religious thought and as a result shaped novel, powerful, and challenging ways of understanding philosophy, religion, ethics, and politics. n In this course, we will examine works from every stage of Levinas's career, from his early study of Husserl and Heidegger to the emergence of his new understanding of the human condition and the primacy of ethics, the face-to-face encounter with the human other, the role of language and the relationship between ethics and religion, and finally his understanding of Judaism and its relationship to Western philosophy. We will be interested in his philosophical method, the relevance of his thinking for ethics and religion, the role of language in his philosophy and the problem of the limits of expressibility, and the implications of his work for politics. We shall also consider his conception of Judaism, its primary goals and character, and its relation to Western culture and philosophy.
Instructors:
Morgan, M. (PI)
JEWISHST 291X: Knowing God: Learning Religion in Popular Culture (EDUC 231X, RELIGST 231X)
This course will examine how people learn religion outside of school, and in conversation with popular cultural texts and practices. Taking a broad social-constructivist approach to the variety of ways people learn, this course will explore how people assemble ideas about faith, identity, community, and practice, and how those ideas inform individual, communal and global notions of religion. Much of this work takes place in formal educational environments including missionary and parochial schools, Muslim madrasas or Jewish yeshivot. However, even more takes place outside of school, as people develop skills and strategies in conversation with broader social trends. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to questions that lie at the intersection of religion, popular culture, and education.
JEWISHST 299A: Directed Reading in Yiddish, First Quarter
Directed Reading in Yiddish, First Quarter
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 5 units total)
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