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Courses

For the most up to date information on our course offerings, please visit the LSA Course Guide.

Fall 2023 Offerings

Core Courses

What is Judaism?

Elliot Ginsburg

Judaic 205

3 credits; HU

Tu/Th 2:30-4pm

Sources of Jewish History

Devi Mays

Judaic 210

3 credits; HU

M/W 1-2:30pm

First Year Seminars

Film, Fiction and Female in Israel and Palestine

Ruth Tsoffar

Judaic 150.001

3 credits; HU

Tu/Th 2:30-4pm

Yiddish Love Stories

Mikhail Krutikov

Judaic 150.003

3 credits; HU

Tu/Th 10-11:30am

Mini-Courses

Fiddler on the Roof: From Book to Stage

Mikhail Krutikov

Judaic 218.004

1 credit; HU

Meets second seven weeks

W 10am-12pm remote synchronous

Russian Jews under Tsars and Soviets: Literature, Arts and Film

Mikhail Krutikov

Judaic 218.005

2 credits; HU

Meets full term

W 3-5pm remote synchronous

Undergraduate Electives

Nonviolence

David Schoem

Judaic 216.001

3 credits; SS

M/W 10-11:30am

approved for LJSC submajor or minor

The Bible and the Quran

Mostafa Hussein

Judaic 217

3 credits; HU

M/W 10-11:30am

Antisemitism and Islamophobia in France

Adi Saleem Bharat

Judaic 218.002

3 credits; HU

M/W 1-2:30pm

course taught in French

How Religions are Born: The Origins of Judaism and Christianity

Deborah Forger

Judaic 218.006

3 credits; HU

Tu/Th 1-2:30pm

The Camps and Public Memory

Benjamin Paloff

Judaic 218.007

3 credits; HU

M/W 2:30-4pm

Screening Jewish Cultures

Maya Barzilai

Judaic 250

3 credits; RE, HU

LEC - Tu/Th 11:30am-1pm

LAB - W 4-7pm

Arts and Resistance Theme Semester Course

The Historical Jesus in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Gabriele Boccaccini

Judaic 280

4 credits; HU

LEC - Tu/Th 2:30-4pm

DIS - F 12-1pm or 2-3pm

Arab-Israeli

Mark Tessler

Judaic 317.001

4 credits

LEC Tu/Th 10-11:30am

DIS - various days/times

Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land

Mostafa Hussein

Judaic 318.001

3 credits; HU

M/W 1-2:30pm

The Bible as a Material Object

Deborah Forger

Judaic 318.002

3 credits; HU

M/W 11:30am-1pm

The Nazis and Art: Promoting, Demeaning, Plundering 

Shelley Perlove

Judaic 318.010

3 credits; HU

Tu/Th 10-11:30am

Conversion and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain

Yanay Israeli

Judaic 324

3 credits; HU

Tu/Th 2:30-4pm

Angels and Demons, the Devil and the Messiah

Gabriele Boccaccini

Judaic 335

3 credits; HU

Tu/Th 5:30-7pm

Anne Frank in Context

Annemarie Toebosch

Judaic 351

3 credits; RE, HU

M/W 11:30am-1pm

A Global History of the Jews of Spain

Devi Mays

Judaic 360

3 credits; HU

M/W 4-5:30pm

The Holocaust

Jeffrey Veidlinger

Judaic 386

4 credits; RE, SS

LEC - Tu/Th 1-2:30pm

DIS - various days/times

History of American Jews

Karla Goldman

Judaic 387

4 credits; HU

LEC - M/W 10-11:30am

DIS - W 12-1pm or 2-3pm

Jewish Culture in America: 1945 to the Present

Julian Levinson

Judaic 389

3 credits; HU

M/W 2:30-4pm

Undergraduate/Graduate Elective

Jewish Mysticism

Elliot Ginsburg

Judaic 468

3 credits

Graduate Elective

Holocaust Studies

Jeffrey Veidlinger

Judaic 617.001

3 credits

Tu 4-7pm

Languages

First Year Yiddish I

Elena Luchina

Judaic 101/431

4 credits

M/W 10-11:30am in-person

F 10-11am remote synchronous

Second Year Yiddish I

Elena Luchina

Judaic 201/531

4 credits

M/W 1-2:30pm in-person

Th 1-2pm remote synchronous

Ladino: Language and Culture or the Sephardi Jews

Gabriel Mordoch

Ladino 280/580

4 credits; HU

M/W 2:30-4pm in-person

Th 2:30-3:30pm remote synchronous

Meets 300-level Spanish Cognate 

Hebrew Courses
Coordinated by the
Middle East Studies Department