The Minor in Jewish Studies
Advisers: Ernest Benz, Silvia Berger, Justin Cammy, Lois Dubin, Joel Kaminsky, Ellen Kaplan, Jocelyne Kolb
Requirements
A minimum of five courses from below. Students contemplating a minor in Jewish Studies should see an adviser as early as possible to develop a minor course program.
Basis
- JUD 125/REL 225 Jewish Civilization: Text and Tradition
Breadth
Four additional courses distributed over at least three of the areas of Jewish Studies (check the Smith Course Catalogue for all current offerings):
- Classical Texts
- JUD 230 Reading the Bible through Rabbinic Eyes
- REL 210 Introduction to the Bible I
- REL 211 Wisdom Literature and Other Books from the Writings
- REL 213 Prophecy in Ancient Israel
- REL 216 Topics in Biblical Studies
- REL 310 Hebrew Bible: Sibling Rivalries: Israel and the Other
- REL 310 Hebrew Bible: Judges
- History and Thought
- FYS 163 The Holy Land
- GOV 229 Government and Politics of Israel
- GOV 248 The Arab-Israel Dispute
- GOV 323 Warring for Heaven and Earth: Jewish and Muslim Political Activism in the Middle East
- HST 284/JUD 284 The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1750–1945
- JUD 283 The Spanish Inquisition
- JUD 285 Jews and Islamic Civilization
- REL 220 Jews and Judaism in the Ancient World
- REL 221 Jewish Spirituality: Philosophers and Mystics
- REL 223 The Modern Jewish Experience
- REL 224 Jews and Judaism in the Americas
- REL 227 Judaism/Feminism/ Women’s Spirituality
- REL 320 Seminar: Tying and Untying the Knot: Women, Marriage and Divorce in Judaism
- REL 320 Seminar: Jewish Women's History
- Language
- JUD 100Y Elementary Modern Hebrew
- JUD 200 Intermediate Modern Hebrew
- JUD 110 J Elementary Yiddish
- JUD 400 Special Studies in Language
- Literature and the Arts
- CLT 214 Literary Anti–Semitism
- CLT 218 Holocaust Literature
- CLT 275 Israeli Literature
- CLT 277 At Home With Kafka: Modern Jewish Fiction
- ENG 230/JUD 258 American Jewish Literature
- GER 190 Jews in German Culture
- GER 230 Nazi Cinema
- JUD 260 Yiddish Literature and Culture
- JUD 362 Punchline: The Jewish Comic Tradition
- SPN 246 Life Stories by Latin American Jewish Writers (in Spanish)
- THE 220 Homelands: Mythmaking, Representation, and Debate in Israeli Drama
- THE 241 Staging the Jew
