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3.00 Credits
Jews And The City
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Fishman. This is a Bi-directional course which explores attitudes toward, and perceptions of, the religious "Other", in different periods of history. Themes include legislation regulating interactions with the Other, polemics, popular beliefs about the Other, divergent approaches to scriptural interpretation, and cross-cultural influences, witting and unwitting. Different semesters may focus on Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Early Modern period, or contemporary times. May be repeated for credit.
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Fishman. Prerequisite(s): Reading knowledge of Hebrew. This course traces reflections on rabbinic culture produced within Jewish legal literature of the classic rabbinic period -Midrash, Mishna, and Talmud -- and in later juridical gemres -- Talmudic commentary, codes and responsa. Attention will be paid to the mechanics of different genres, the role of the underlying prooftext, the inclusion or exclusion of variant opinions, the presence of non-legal information, attitudes toward predecessors, balance between precedent and innovation.
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Wenger. This course offers a comprehensive survey of American Jewish history from the colonial period to the present. It will cover the different waves of Jewish immigration to the United States and examine the construction of Jewish political, cultural, and religious life in America. Topics will include: American Judaism, the Jewish labor movement, Jewish politics and popular culture, and the responses of American Jews to the Holocaust and the State of Israel.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Hellerstein. This course will introduce undergraduate and graduate students of literature, women's studies, and Jewish studies to the long tradition of women as readers, writers, and subjects in Jewish literature. All texts will be in translation from Yiddish and Hebrew, or in English. Through a variety of genres -- devotional literature, memoir, fiction, and poetry -- we will study women's roles and selves, the relations of women and men, and the interaction between Jewish texts and women's lives. The legacy of women in Yiddish devotional literature will serve as background for our reading of modern Jewish fiction and poetry from the past century.
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3.00 Credits
Hellerstein. Prerequisite(s): Reading knowledge of Yiddish. This course will survey modern Yiddish literature through readings of Yiddish prose and poetry from the end of the 19th century through the late 20th century. The class will be conducted in both Yiddish and English. Reading knowledge of Yiddish is required, although some texts will be available in English translation. Authors include I.L. Peretz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, and Kadya Molodowsky.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ruderman. Intensive study of aspects of Jewish cultural history during the periods of the Renaissance and Baroque [the period of the ghetto] in Italy, with special emphasis on Jewish-Christian interaction. Reading of primary documents in order to define the special character of the era in the Jewish experience. Topics include: Jewish/Christian polemics, the influence of rhetoric and humanism on Jewish culture, Jewish historical writing, Jewish and Christian study of magic and kabbalah, Jewish messianism, Jewish scientific writing, and more. Course will considerthe impact of the erection of the ghetto on the formation of Jewish religion and culture.
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3.00 Credits
Ruderman. The seminar will consider Jewish reflections on the meaning of the past from the Bible until the present. It will present a survey of the history of Jewish historical writing including Josephus, medieval chronicles written both in the Moslem and Christian worlds, Jewish histories of the Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, and the rise of the academic study of Judaism in the 19th century. It will conclude with a consideration of modern and contemporary historical trends. The alleged tension between Jewish notions of memory and the modern writing of history, as articulated in Yosef Yerushalmi's well-known book Zachor, will be a consistent theme throughout the course. Considerable reading of primary sources. A reading knowledge of Hebrew is helpful but not required.
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3.00 Credits
Golomb. Prerequisite(s): For the Spring semester, completion of the first semester or permission of the instructor. An introduction to the grammar of the Aramaic language with emphasis on developing skills in reading Aramaic texts.
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3.00 Credits
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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