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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 2006-2007 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)

  • 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
  • NMC336Y1 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