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Jewish Studies Program
The Jewish studies program examines Jews and Judaism from the perspective of different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, such as history, religious studies, language and linguistics, literature, theology, political science, and anthropology. This interdisciplinary approach has two objectives: first, to train students in understanding various aspects of Jews and Judaism; and second, to expose students to the serious investigation of topics with different disciplines and methodologies. The program offers a unique opportunity to pursue a high-quality liberal arts education while providing an excellent foundation for students who would like to pursue Jewish studies in graduate school, enroll in a rabbinical program, or work in Jewish organizations and communities. Students who major in Jewish studies will take nine courses and also will gain advanced language proficiency in Hebrew or another Judaic language.
- Academic Department Website
- http://js.emory.edu
Concentrations
Faculty
- Director
- Eric Goldstein
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Michael Berger
Courses
Jewish Studies 100-Level Courses
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This course introduces students to the various questions, texts, methodologies, and perspectives that constitute the broad field of Jewish Studies. It presumes no prior knowledge of Jewish history, religion or culture.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course is an introduction to the institutions and folklore of the ethnic communities in modern Israeli society and culture. In English; no knowledge of Hebrew required.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 120
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Readings (in English) of major works from Biblical narrative to modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and Jewish fiction. Class discussions deal with topics such as Jewish identity, exile, humor, and satire. Satisfies GER IV.A.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 125
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Jewish history in the last two centuries. Emphasizes Jewish development, emancipation, assimilation, identity, and changing status in Europe, America, the Islamic world, and Palestine/Israel.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 170
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- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Variety of subjects pertaining to Jewish studies at the introductory level. Content will vary. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Variety of subjects pertaining to Jewish studies at the introductory level. Content will vary. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Designed to engage first-year students in aspects of inquiry and research into areas of Jewish religion, culture, history, or language. Topics will vary.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- FSEM
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Jewish Studies 200-Level Courses
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The Hebrew scriptures ("Old Testament"), in translation, examined in their historical setting, and in their roles as sacred texts in Judaism and Christianity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 205
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This course will explore classic religious texts in depth, developing skills to interpret sacred, philosophical and ethical works. Social, cultural, and/or philosophical contexts at work will provide interpretive frameworks.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 210R
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This course will explore classic religious texts in depth, developing skills to interpret sacred, philosophical and ethical works. Social, cultural, and/or philosophical contexts at work will provide interpretive frameworks.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 210RW
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Course offers an overview of the origins, development, and outcomes of National Socialism. It covers: the rise of Nazi Party, establishment of dictatorship, emergence of racial state, life of Jews and social outsiders, road to war, WWII, occupation of Europe, resistance, euthanasia, the Holocaust.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 218
- HIST 218
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Readings in translation of Eastern European and Israeli authors, focusing on short fiction by Nachman of Bratslav, Abramovitsh, Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, Agnon, Appelfeld, Amichai, and Yehoshua. In English.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 222
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A broad introduction to the history, literature, and film of Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Europe and America. All texts in English translation.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 230
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A careful examination of theory and methodology related to this branch of archaeology with special emphasis on famous discoveries, important sites, and the archaeological/historical background of Biblical events.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 250
- REL 260
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Everyday life in ancient Israel (1200-586 BCE), including the economy, religion and culture, city planning, the Israelite kitchen, burials, status of women, and more.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 251
- REL 251
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Everyday life in ancient Israel (1200-586 BCE), including the economy, religion and culture, city planning, the Israelite kitchen, burials, status of women, and more.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 251W
- REL 251W
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A survey of the history of Jerusalem from its earliest times to the Crusader period through examination of archaeological remains and other ancient sources.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 252
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A survey of the history of Jerusalem from its earliest times to the Crusader period through examination of archaeological remains and other ancient sources.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 252W
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Introduction to Jewish populations and cultures within the framework of four fields of general anthropology: biological, archaeological, cultural, and linguistic.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 258
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Summer. Excavations in the Middle East, especially with the Summer Abroad Program affiliated with the Lahav Research Project at Tell Halif.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 259R
- REL 261R
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This course offers a general overview of the history of Jews and Judaism, beginning with the Biblical period and ending with modern times.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 270
- HIST 270
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This course offers a general overview of the history of Jews and Judaism, beginning with the Biblical period and ending with modern times.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 270
- HIST 270
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Special Topics in Jewish History: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish History. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Special Topics in Jewish History: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish History. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Special Topics in Jewish Religion and Culture: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish Religion and Culture. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Special Topics in Jewish Religion and Culture: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish Religion and Culture. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Special Topics in Jewish Literature: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish Literature. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Special Topics in Jewish Literature: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish Literature. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Jewish Studies 300-Level Courses
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A data field and not a discipline, Jewish studies is an area in many disciplines. This course explores methods for studying the data of Jewish studies: historical, exegetical, theological, feminist, legal, plus many others.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Explores the rituals and practices of Judaism, placing them in their historical context and examining the theological concepts that underpin them.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 308
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Modern Jewish history, society, and thought, with emphasis on religious and secular reformulations of Jewish self-identity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 309
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This course examines medicine in Germany from 1933 to 1945 and the extreme examples of the excesses of modern medical culture it provides.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 315
- HIST 315
- IDS 315
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This course examines medicine in Germany from 1933 to 1945 and the extreme examples of the excesses of modern medical culture it provides.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 315W
- HIST 315W
- IDS 315W
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This course investigates Jewish culture and society in the Middle East, with special emphasis on the modern period. The approach is interdisciplinary (history, ethnography, religious study, and linguistics).
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 320
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Herod the Great ruled Palestine between 40-4 BCE. He changed the face of the land by building magnificent structures, some still standing, across the land and the region. The course explores the historical-cultural backgrounds to this period, his successes and failures, and what motivated him.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 322
- MESAS 322
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Herod the Great ruled Palestine between 40-4 BCE. He changed the face of the land by building magnificent structures, some still standing, across the land and the region. The course explores the historical-cultural backgrounds to this period, his successes and failures, and what motivated him.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 322W
- MESAS 322W
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An analysis of the sociopolitical background and the horror of the Holocaust, followed by the popular as well as the theological responses of the Jewish and Christian communities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 324
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Summer. This course explores the nature of Israeli society, culture, and land, on location. Summer only; in Israel. In English. No knowledge of Hebrew required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 325
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A course dealing with the history and structure of Judaic languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, and Ladino.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 326
- MESAS 326
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A course dealing with the history and structure of Judaic languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, and Ladino.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 326W
- MESAS 326W
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This course explores Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as well as other religious groups in the Holy Land on location. In Israel. In English. No knowledge of Hebrew required.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 327
- REL 327
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A six-week course devoted to Spanish Jewish culture in Europe. The program travels to Spain, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece, where Jews established thriving communities after expulsion from Spain in 1492.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 328A
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A six-week course devoted to Spanish Jewish culture in Europe. The program travels to Spain, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece, where Jews established thriving communities after expulsion from Spain in 1492.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 328B
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A six-week course devoted to Spanish Jewish culture in Europe. The program travels to Spain, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece, where Jews established thriving communities after expulsion from Spain in 1492.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 328BW
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Survey of American Jewish history from colonial period to present, Jewish immigration to the United States, patterns of religious and cultural adjustment, social relations and antisemitism, Jewish politics, the construction of Jewish identities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 329
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On the eve of the Holocaust, a majority of world Jewry lived in Eastern Europe (esp.Poland, USSR).This course explores the origins, dynamic growth, and near destruction of East European Jewry from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and the challenges to Jewish life in this region in the post-WWII era.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 338
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On the eve of the Holocaust, a majority of world Jewry lived in Eastern Europe (esp.Poland, USSR).This course explores the origins, dynamic growth, and near destruction of East European Jewry from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and the challenges to Jewish life in this region in the post-WWII era.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 338W
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Background and emergence of Rabbinic Judaism in 100-500 C.E., its institutions and beliefs: study, law, chosenness, messianic doctrine of god, revelation and prayer.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 340
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Intensive study of a major work on an important theme in medieval Jewish thought such as Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, Saadia's Beliefs and Opinions, and medieval Jewish exegesis of the Bible.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 341
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Intensive study of a major work, author or movement; or of an important theme in modern Jewish thought, such as Heschel, Buber, reform, religious anthropology.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 343
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This course will explore the literatures of identity and belonging in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It will cover Modern Hebrew literature authored by Jewish-Israeli writers and literature produced by Arab Palestinians in Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Diaspora.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 348
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This course will explore the literatures of identity and belonging in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It will cover Modern Hebrew literature authored by Jewish-Israeli writers and literature produced by Arab Palestinians in Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Diaspora.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 348W
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Construction of gender, definitions of the roles and status of women and men in a variety of traditions; women's and men's religious lives. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 352R
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Jewish mystical texts and themes, such as Zohar, Hasidism, and selected classical texts.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Analysis of methods and/or texts pertaining to ethical decision-making for individual and social problems such as race, sex/marriage, justice, war, biomedical technology, and environmental pollution. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 354R
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Analysis of methods and/or texts pertaining to ethical decision-making for individual and social problems such as race, sex/marriage, justice, war, biomedical technology, and environmental pollution. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 354RW
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Evolution and growth of Israel. Equal emphasis on Ottoman Palestine and on the mandatory and Israeli statehood periods. Topics include Zionism, Arab-Jewish relations, the British colonial presence, Israeli domestic issues, and foreign policy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 370
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This course will focus on particular aspects of or themes in Judaism or Jewish culture and how it is practiced. Topics will vary.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course will focus on particular aspects of or themes in Judaism or Jewish culture and how it is practiced. Topics will vary.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course will focus on a specific period or dimension of Jewish history with an emphasis on the use of documents and other primary sources. Topics will vary.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course will focus on a specific period or dimension of Jewish history with an emphasis on the use of documents and other primary sources. Topics will vary.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course will explore specific themes in the development of Hebrew or other Jewish languages. Sample literature will be studied in the original language. Topics will vary.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course will explore specific themes in the development of Hebrew or other Jewish languages. Sample literature will be studied in the original language. Topics will vary.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HALW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course explores how films and media shed light on the diverse ways Jews and Judaism are imagined, represented, and practiced.
- Credit Hours
- 3 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course explores how films and media shed light on the diverse ways Jews and Judaism are imagined, represented, and practiced.
- Credit Hours
- 3 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Seminar on special issues in Jewish writing. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 375
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Seminar on special issues in Jewish writing. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 375W
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- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Knowledge of Russian is not required. This course explores Russian-Jewish intellectual dialogue in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the most representative examples of cross-cultural writing, in fiction and nonfiction.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- RUSS 381
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Progression of the conflict from the 19th century to the present is reviewed in a multidisciplinary manner. Topics include political history, communal disparities, and the various wars and their diplomatic outcomes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 383
- HIST 383
- POLS 383
- POLS 383
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Progression of the conflict from the 19th century to the present is reviewed in a multidisciplinary manner. Topics include political history, communal disparities, and the various wars and their diplomatic outcomes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 383
- HIST 383
- POLS 383
- POLS 383
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Individual research on a chosen topic in Israeli or Holy Land studies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 397
Jewish Studies 400-Level Courses
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Designed especially to enable students with background in Biblical Hebrew to read modern publications in the field of Biblical studies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HEBR 415R
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Jr/Sr Colloquium. This course explores the history of Germany after 1945, paying special attention to the circumstances under which two independent German states emerged and how they developed diverging societies and independent policies during the Cold War.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 417W
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This course introduces students to Judeo-Arabic, the language of the Jews in Arab lands, through the study of Judeo-Arabic texts from various periods and places.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 420R
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Addresses the historical position and cultural production of Spanish and Latin American Jewry, from medieval Spain to the present. We examine how diasporic Jewish subjects have framed their identity while negotiating the pressures of exile, immigration, antisemitism, and political violence.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SPAN 422
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Jr/Sr Colloquium. This seminar will explore gender and sexuality in modern Jewish society and culture, and ask how modernity affected marriage, love, education, and family.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 426W
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Jr/Sr Colloquium. This seminar will explore continuities and innovations between the medieval and modern blood libels, especially how the modern accusation was a product of post-Enlightenment politics, fears, and conventional social knowledge.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 427W
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Readings in modern Hebrew prose, poetry, and drama in the original, with emphasis on literary and social issues.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HEBR 430R
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Advanced study of the language used in the Israeli media; includes selections from newspapers, radio, and television broadcasts.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HEBR 435
- HEBR 435R
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Advanced study of the language used in the Israeli media; includes selections from newspapers, radio, and television broadcasts.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HEBR 435
- HEBR 435R
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Jr/Sr Colloquium. The Colloquium will consider the origins, development, and meaning of the professions in America from the Revolution to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the evoluion of professional lawyers, doctors, ministers, artists, and sports figures.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 438W
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Jr./Sr. Colloquium. A research seminar that examines the life and times of President Jimmy Carter.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 441W
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Jr./Sr. Colloquium. A study of the cultural and historical causes of the punitive turn in the United States, the ratcheting up of incarceration and other forms of punishment in the late 20th century.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 443W
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Jr/Sr Colloquium. This seminar will provide an opportunity for students to master and apply the techniques of historical research, analysis, and writing through an exploration of the history of Emory University from its founding as Emory College in 1836 to the present.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 449W
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Special Topics in Jewish Religion and Culture: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish religion and culture. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Special Topics in Jewish Religion and Culture: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish religion and culture. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Special Topics in Jewish History: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish history. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Special Topics in Jewish History: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish history. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Special Topics in Jewish Literature: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish literature. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Special Topics in Jewish Literature: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish literature. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish language. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL
- Requisites
- HEBR 302 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Among the topics studied are the patriarchs and the patriarchal period, the exodus and the settlement of Canaan, and the Israelite monarchy.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 475
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Among the topics studied are the patriarchs and the patriarchal period, the exodus and the settlement of Canaan, and the Israelite monarchy.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 475W
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- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Selected topics in Jewish studies. Required for majors.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Selected topics in Jewish studies. Required for majors.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Independent research for senior major students selected to participate in the department's Honors Program.
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Independent research for senior major students selected to participate in the department's Honors Program.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Specific readings for each student are decided upon in consultation with a member of the faculty.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Honors Program
Students may write an Honors Thesis in accordance with the requirements of the College. In this case they may be required to take one Graduate course which will replace one of the elective courses.
Study Abroad
As part of its undergraduate program, the Institute for Jewish Studies participates in several study abroad programs. For more information on programs at Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, CET Prague, and CIEE Prague, please visit the Office of International and Summer Programs website.
Additionally, TIJS will in many cases also accept transfer credit from other study abroad programs for courses in Jewish studies, with prior approval of the undergraduate director.
Language Study
Hebrew language and Arabic courses are offered through the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) and will count towards fulfillment of the Jewish Studies major. These languages are an integral part of the Jewish Studies program.
Award
The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies offers grants to support students’ academic endeavors in Jewish Studies beyond regular coursework and classroom activities, including year-long, semester-long, or summer study abroad programs (primarily for undergraduates), off-campus language study (for training beyond what is offered at Emory), research (primarily for theses or Ph.D. dissertations), and travel to attend or present papers at scholarly conferences (primarily for graduate students). TIJS will accept grant applications twice every year: In the Fall for academic-year grants and in the Spring for Summer grants. Typically, academic-year support is reserved for graduate students who need assistance with travel and research, but applications from undergraduates will be considered under extraordinary circumstances. Summer grants are regularly awarded to both undergraduates and graduate students. For more information, please visit http://www.js.emory.edu/grants/index.html