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. Students will take at least three courses toward the minor at Smtih
Basis
- JUD 125/REL 225 Jewish Civilization or
- JUD 100y Elementary Modern Hebrew, the year long JUD 100y will count as tw courses toward the minor
Breadth
Four additional courses distributed over at least three of the areas of Jewish Studies (Language, Classical Texts, History, Politics and Thought and Literature and the Arts):
- Classical Texts
- REL 162 Introduction to the Bible I
- REL 211 Wisdom Literature and Other Books from the Writings
- REL 213 Prophecy in Ancient Israel
- REL 214 Women in then Hebrew Bible
- REL 216 Archeology and the Bible
- REL 230 Reading the Bible through Rabbinic Eyes
- REL 310 Hebrew Bible: Sibling Rivalries:Israel and the Other
- REL 310 Hebrew Bible: Judges
- History, Politics and Thought
- FYS 105 Jerusalem
- FYS 163 The Holy Land
- GES 301 Jerusalem
- 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
- HST 350 Modern Europe: Topic: Gender and Histories of the Holocaust
- JUD 235 Perspectives on Israeli History
- JUD 250 Sociology of Israeli Society
- JUD 251 Women and Gender in Israeli Society
- JUD 283 The Spanish Inquisition
- JUD 285 Jews and Islamic Civilization
- JUD 287 The Holocaust
- REL 221 Jewish Spirituality: Philosophers and Mystics
- REL 223 Jews and Modernity (formerly The Modern Jewish Experience)
- REL 320 Judaism, Women, and Radical Politics
- REL 320 Seminar: Jewish Women's History
- Language
- JUD 100Y Elementary Modern Hebrew
- JUD 200 Intermediate Modern Hebrew
- JUD 201 Readings in 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 231/ENG 230 American Jewish Literature (formerly JUD 258)
- CLT 277 Modern Jewish Fiction
- FYS 186 Israel: Texts and Contexts
- GER 230 Nazi Cinema
- GER 241 Jews in German culture (formerly GER 190)
- JUD 236 Documentary Film in Contemporary Israel
- JUD 237 Forbidden Love:Cinematics of Desire in Israel and Beyond
- JUD 257 Jewish Writers in Modernist Berlin
- JUD 260 Yiddish Literature and Culture
- JUD 362 Punchline: The Jewish Comic Tradition
- JUD 362 Yiddish Film
- SPN 246 Life Stories by Latin American Jewish Writers (in Spanish)
- THE 241 Staging the Jew
- 244 American Musical Comedy: From Gershwin to Sondheim
