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 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
- GER360H1 Intermediate Yiddish
- GER361H1 Yiddish Literature and Culture in Translation
- GER362H1 Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Culture in the
Soviet Union, 1917-1941
- GER363Y1 Cultural History of the East European
Community, 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, Occupied
Europe, 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 the Sacred: Birth, Marriage,
Death in Jewish Culture
- HIS451H1 World War II in East Central Europe
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations (416-978-3180)
- HUM199Y1 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
- NMC36Y1 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 of
Israel’s identity
- POL421H1 Maimonides and his Modern Interpreters
- POL430Y1 Comparative Studies in Jewish and Non-Jewish
Political 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 Jewish
Thought
- RLG342Y1 Judaism in the Modern Age
- RLG343H1 Kabbala: A History of Mystical Thought in
Judaism
- RLG344Y1 AntiSemitism
- RLG345H1 Ecology and Judaism
- RLG346H1 Time and Place in Judaism
- RLG440H1 Advance Topics: Natural Law in Judaism and Christianity
- RLG446H1 Advanced Topics: Religion West III: Maimonides and his Modern
Interpreters
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- SLA302H1 The Imaginary Jew
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