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4.00 Credits
The 1948 first Arab-Israeli war still provokes multidimensional debates, in both academic and Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies public circles. In the Palestinian and Arab collective memory, the war is engraved as the Nakba-the catastrophe-while Israel celebrates it as its day of independence. For both, it is the formative event of their history. In recent decades, Israel's "New Historians," alongside other researchers, contributed to changes in the way historians, and even the Israeli public, see their past. In this course, we attempt to provide students with basic knowledge and analytical tools to understand what "really happened," beyond narratives and memories.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates a series of problems regarding the mutual constitution of male and female in the Hebrew Bible. Through close readings of a range of biblical texts (narrative, law, wisdom literature), we address such issues as the absence of the goddess in monotheism, the literary representation of women and men, the construction of gender ideals, and the legislation of sex and bodily purity.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on Jewish history in imperial Russia, from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th. It also gives an overview of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Topics include the government's policies toward Jews; attempts to integrate them into the larger society; the establishment and development of Russian Jewish civil society; Jewish participation in the revolutionary movement; aspects of Jewish social, economic, and cultural life in villages, town, and cities; the role of women in family and communal life; military service; anti-Jewish violence; and emigration.
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4.00 Credits
Identical to MEIS-UA 302. Offered every semester.
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4.00 Credits
Examines models for understanding the nature of magic as a phenomenon in society, then applies those models to help understand the different kinds of magic in Jewish history, from biblical times to the present.
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4.00 Credits
Over the past few decades, many readers have come to a fuller appreciation of the emotional and imaginative power of the Bible's narratives, which still speak with remarkable clarity to our own sensibilities, leading one critic to characterize the Bible as a "full-fledged kindred spirit" of modernism. The course pursues this "kindred spirit," using a broadly literary approach as its guide. While the focus is on narrative-the Pentateuch (Genesis to Deuteronomy) and the Former Prophets (Joshua to Kings), as well as shorter narrative books (Ruth, Jonah, and Esther)-it also studies Ecclesiastes and Job as ancient precursors to modern skepticism. Finally, it studies one modernist engagement with the Bible: Kafka's Amerika.
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4.00 Credits
Open to students who have completed Elementary Hebrew II (HBRJD-UA 2) or Intensive Elementary Hebrew (HBRJD-UA 5), or those who have been placed at this level through the placement examination. Builds on skills acquired at the elementary level and develops a deepening command of all linguistic skills. Modern literary and expository texts are read to expand vocabulary and grammatical knowledge, with conversation and composition exercises built around the texts. Introduces selections from Israeli media. Addresses the relationship between classical and modern Hebrew.
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4.00 Credits
Studies the Middle East and its Jewish communities through an examination of culinary history and foodways. Particular attention is paid to food as a marker of class, ethnic, and religious identity. After a brief theoretical introduction to foodways literature, we examine cookery and culinary representation in the classical Islamic period as background for the modern era. Colonialism and a transition in the economic position of the Middle East transformed both the culinary preferences of the region's inhabitants and relations between indigenous Jews and other religious communities. By the mid-20th century, most Middle Eastern Jews had immigrated to Europe, the United States, or Israel, further impacting their foodways. In the later period, we focus on food and memory; food and Sephardic identity formation; Israeli and Palestinian national cuisines; globalization and Middle Eastern food; and food copyrighting.
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4.00 Credits
Continuation of Intermediate Hebrew I (HBRJD-UA 3). Open to students who have completed HBRJD-UA 3 or who have been placed at this level through the placement examination.
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4.00 Credits
An in-depth study of Spinoza's main political work, the Theological-Political Treatise. Among the topics to be discussed are prophecy and prophets, miracles and laws of nature, Spinoza and biblical criticism, Spinoza's view of the Jewish Law, his political theory, and the book's influence on the Enlightenment.
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