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 2004-2005 Jewish Studies Undergraduate Handbook. If your division does not carry the handbooks, please call 416-978-8118.

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

GER360Y1
Intermediate Yiddish

GER361H1
Yiddish Literature and Culture in Translation

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

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

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

HIS356Y1
Zionism and the State of Israel

HIS433H1
Polish Jews Since the Partitions of Poland

HIS442Y1
Antisemitism and Jewish Responses

HIS451H1
World War II in East Central Europe

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

HUM 199Y1
Mystical Dimensions of Islam and Judaism

NMC 230Y1
Introductory Biblical Hebrew

NMC 256Y1
Literature and Culture of Modern Israel

NMC 257Y1
Literature of Jewish Sages

NMC 278Y1
Introduction to the Modern Middle East/

NMC 331H1
Mishnah and Tosefta

NMC 333Y1
Intermediate Biblical Hebrew: Pentateuch

NMC336Y1
Intermediate Modern Hebrew

NMC 352H1
Faith and Doubt in Modern Hebrew Poetry

NMC 384H1
Life Cycle and Personal Status in Judaism: Reproductive Technology and Jewish Law

NMC 432Y1
Halakhic Midrashim

Department of Philosophy (416-978-3311)

PHL 338H1S
Jewish Philosophy

PHL 410H1
Seminar in Continental Philosophy: Derrida As Philosophical Reader

Department of Political Science (416-978-3343)

POL345H1
Becoming Israel: War, Peace and the Politics of Israel's identity

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

RLG 280Y1
Comparative World Religions

RLG320H1
Judaism and Christianity in the Second Century

RLG340Y1
Classical Jewish Theology

RLG341H1
Dreaming of Zion: Exile and Return in Jewish Thought

RLG342Y1
Judaism in the Modern Age

RLG343H1
Kabbala: A History of Mystical Thought in Judaism

RLG 344Y1Y
AntiSemitism

RLG345H1
Ecology and Judaism

RLG346H1
Time and Place in Judaism

RLG388H1
Special Topics: Hebrew Literature in the Middle Ages

RLG430H1
Jewish Culture in Medieval Latin, Greek and Arabic Europe

RLG440H1
Advance Topics: Natural Law in Judaism and Christianity

RLG446H1
Advanced Topics: Religion West III: Maimonides and his Modern Interpreters

Department of Slavic Studies

SLA302H1
The Imaginary Jew