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  • JWST 251: Archaeology and Society in the Holy Land- 500 BCE- 500 BCE

    4.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in History & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course will survey the archaeological history of the southern Levant (Israel, West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, southern Lebanon and Syria) from the early complex societies of the Chalcolithic through the demise of the biblical early complex societies of the Chalcolithic through the demise of the biblical states of the Iron Age. It will focus in particular on the changing organization of society through time, using excavated evidence from burials, houses, temples and palaces to track changes in heterogeneity, hierarchy and identity. In following the general themes of this course, students will have opportunity to familiarize themselves with the geographic features, major sites and important historical events of the southern Levant. Class materials will be presented in illustrated lectures and supplemented by the study of artifacts in the University Museum's collections. Anyone interested in a better understanding of the land that has given us both the "Old Testament"/TaNak and so much of our daily news, should find much of interest in this course.
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  • JWST 255: The Bible in Translation

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Tigay. May be repeated for credit. Careful textual study of a book of the Hebrew Bible ("Old Testament") as a literary and religious work in the light of modern scholarship, ancient Near Eastern documents, and comparative literature and religion. The book varies from year to year.
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  • JWST 256: Studies in the Hebrew Bible

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Tigay. Fluency in reading and translating Biblical Hebrew and prior study of the Bible in the original, at a high school or college level. The aim of this course is to introduce students to the methods and resources used in the modern study of the Bible. To the extent possible, these methods will be illustrated as they apply to a single book of the Hebrew Bible that will serve as the main focus of the course. The course is designed for undergraduates who have previously studied the Bible in Hebrew either in high school or college. It presupposes a working knowledge of Biblical Hebrew grammar.
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  • JWST 257: Studies in Rabbinic Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Stern. Prerequisite(s): Students must be able to read an unpointed Hebrew text. An introduction to the modern study of Rabbinic literature. Topics range from Midrash to Talmud. No previous background in Rabbinic literature is required but students must be able to read unpointed Hebrew texts.
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  • JWST 258: Studies in Medieval Hebrew Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Stern. Prerequisite(s): Reading knowledge of Hebrew. This course introduces students to medieval Jewish literature and to the various modern methods and critical approaches--cultural history, literary theory, codicology, the comparative history of religions that have been developed to study the literature and its cultural meaning. Texts studied will vary from semester to semester, and will include medieval Hebrew poetry, both religious and secular, Biblical exegesis, philosophical and ethical texts, and historiographic works.
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  • JWST 259: Introduction to Modern Hebrew Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Gold. Prerequisite(s): Near-advanced or advanced knowledge of Hebrew. The content of this course changes from year to year; and, therefore, students may take it for credit more than once. This course is designed as a first course in Hebrew and Israeli literatures in their original forms: no re-written or reworked texts will be presented. It aims to introduce major literary works, genres and figures, Texts and discussions will be in Hebrew. Depending on the semester's focus, fiction, poetry or other forms of expression will be discussed. This course is meant to provide methods for literary interpretation through close reading of these texts. Personal, social, and political issues that find expression in the culture will also be examined. Past topics include: "Poems, Song, Nation;" Israeli Drama," "The Israeli Short Story;" Postmodernist Israeli Writing;" and "Israel through Poets' Lenses." Fall 2006: This course concentrates on contemporary Israeli short stories, post-modernist as well as traditional, written by male and female authors. The diction is simple, often colloquial, but the stories reflect an exciting inner world and a stormy outer reality. For Hebrew writers, the short story has been a favorite genre since the Renaissance of Hebrew literature in the 19th century until now, when Hebrew loiterature is vibrant in a country where Hebrew is spoken. The lion share of the course focuses on authors who emerged in the last 25 years like Keret, Kastel-Bloom, Taub.
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  • JWST 260: Jewish Folklore

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in History & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ben-Amos. The Jews are among the few nations and ethnic groups whose oral tradition occurs in literary and religious texts dating back more than two thousand years. This tradition changed and diversified over the years in terms of the migrations of Jews into different countries and the historical, social, and cultural changes that these countries underwent. The course attempts to capture the historical and ethnic diversity of Jewish folklore in a variety of oral literary forms. A basic book of Hasidic legends from the 18th century will serve as a key text to explore problems in Jewish folklore relating to both earlier and later periods.
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  • JWST 261: Topics in Jewish-American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Hellerstein. From the 1922 silent film "Hungry Hearts" through the first "talkie," "The Jazz Singer," produced in 1927, and beyond "Schindler's List," Jewish characters have confronted the problems of their Jewishness on the silver screen for a general American audience. Alongside this Hollywood tradition of Jewish film, Yiddish film blossomed from independent producers between 1911 and 1939, and interpreted literary masterpieces, from Shakespeare's "King Lear" to Sholom Aleichem's "Teyve the Dairyman," primarily for an immigrant, urban Jewish audience. In this course, we will study a number of films and their literary sources (in fiction and drama), focusing on English language and Yiddish films within the framework of three dilemmas of interpretation: a) the different ways we "read" literature and film, b) the various ways that the media of fiction, drama, and film "translate" Jewish cultue, and c) how these translations of Jewish culture affect and are affected by their implied audience.
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  • JWST 262: Jewish Literature in Translation

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. The course explores an aspect of 20th-century literature intensively; specific course topics will vary from year to year.
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  • JWST 265: Yiddish in Eastern Europe

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Hellerstein. All readings and lectures in English. This course presents the major trends in Yiddish literature and culture in Eastern Europe from the mid-19th century through World War II. Divided into four sections - "The Shtetl," "Religious vs. Secular Jews," "Language and Culture," and "Confronting Destruction" - this course will examine how Jews expressed the central aspects of their experience in Eastern Europe through history, literature (fiction, poetry, drama, memoir), film, and song.
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