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Courses Offered by the Jewish Studies Program

The following is a list of courses typically offered by the Jewish Studies Program. For detailed information on courses offered in the current academic year, please check the 2008-2009 Jewish Studies Undergraduate Handbook. If your division does not carry the handbooks, please call 416-978-8118.

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Department of Anthropology

ANT 426H1
Orientalism: Western Views of the Other


Department of English (416-978-3190)

ENG256Y1
Twentieth-Century North American Jewish Literature


 

Department of German (416-926-2324)

GER260Y1
Elementary Yiddish

GER360H1
Intermediate Yiddish

GER361H1
Yiddish Literature and Culture in Translation

GER362H1
Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Culture in theSoviet Union, 1917-1941

GER363Y1
Cultural History of the East EuropeanCommunity, 1800-2000

GER411H1
Introduction to Critical Theory

GER462H1
Advanced Yiddish

GER491Y1
Individual Studies


 

Department of History (416-978-3363)

HIS206Y1
Medieval History of the Jewish People

HIS208Y1
Modern History of the Jewish People

HIS304Y1
Medieval Spain: 711-1610

HIS307H1
Middle East International Relations

HIS338Y1
The Holocaust: Nazi Germany, OccupiedEurope, and the Destruction of European Jewry

HIS356H1
Zionism and the State of Israel

HIS414H1
The Third Reich

HIS433H1
Polish Jews Since the Partitions of Poland

HIS442Y1
Antisemitism and Jewish Responses

HIS444H1
Topics in Jewish History: Society and theSacred: Birth, Marriage, Death in Jewish Culture

HIS451H1
World War II in East Central Europe


 

Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations (416-978-3180)

HUM199H1/Y1
Mystical Dimensions of Islam and Judaism

NMC230Y1
Introductory Biblical Hebrew

NMC256Y1
Literature and Culture of Modern Israel

NMC257Y1
Literature of Jewish Sages

NMC278Y1
Introduction to the Modern Middle East/

NMC331H1
Mishnah and Tosefta

NMC333Y1
Intermediate Biblical Hebrew: Pentateuch

NML255Y1
Intermediate Modern Hebrew

NMC352H1
Faith and Doubt in Modern Hebrew Poetry

NMC384H1
Life Cycle and Personal Status in Judaism:Reproductive Technology and Jewish Law

NMC432Y1
Halakhic Midrashim


 

Department of Philosophy (416-978-3311)

PHL338H1
Jewish Philosophy

PHL410H1
Seminar in Continental Philosophy: Derrida As Philosophical Reader


 

Department of Political Science (416-978-3343)

POL345H1
Becoming Israel: War, Peace and the Politics ofIsrael’s identity

POL421H1
Maimonides and his Modern Interpreters

POL430Y1
Comparative Studies in Jewish and Non-JewishPolitical Thought


 

Department for the Study of Religion (416-978-2395)

RLG202Y1
The Jewish Religious Tradition

RLG220H1
Philosophical Responses to the Holocaust

RLG221H1
Religious Ethics: the Jewish Tradition

RLG239H1
Special Topics: Jewish and Christian Polemics

RLG280Y1
Comparative World Religions

RLG320H1
Judaism and Christianity in the Second Century

RLG340Y1
Classical Jewish Theology

RLG341H1
Dreaming of Zion: Exile and Return in JewishThought

RLG342Y1
Judaism in the Modern Age

RLG343H1
Kabbala: A History of Mystical Thought inJudaism

RLG344Y1
AntiSemitism

RLG345H1
Ecology and Judaism

RLG346H1
Time and Place in Judaism

RLG440H1
Advance Topics: Natural Law in Judaism andChristianity

RLG446H1
Advanced Topics: Religion West III: Maimonidesand his Modern Interpreters


 

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

SLA302H1
The Imaginary Jew