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

NML255Y1 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