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Fall 2023 Offerings
Core Courses
First Year Seminars
Film, Fiction and Female in Israel and Palestine
Ruth Tsoffar
Judaic 150.001
3 credits; HU
Tu/Th 2:30-4pm
Mini-Courses
Fiddler on the Roof: From Book to Stage
Mikhail Krutikov
Judaic 218.004
1 credit; HU
Meets second seven weeks
W 10am-12pm remote synchronous
Russian Jews under Tsars and Soviets: Literature, Arts and Film
Mikhail Krutikov
Judaic 218.005
2 credits; HU
Meets full term
W 3-5pm remote synchronous
Undergraduate Electives
Nonviolence
David Schoem
Judaic 216.001
3 credits; SS
M/W 10-11:30am
approved for LJSC submajor or minor
Antisemitism and Islamophobia in France
Adi Saleem Bharat
Judaic 218.002
3 credits; HU
M/W 1-2:30pm
course taught in French
How Religions are Born: The Origins of Judaism and Christianity
Deborah Forger
Judaic 218.006
3 credits; HU
Tu/Th 1-2:30pm
Screening Jewish Cultures
Maya Barzilai
Judaic 250
3 credits; RE, HU
LEC - Tu/Th 11:30am-1pm
LAB - W 4-7pm
Arts and Resistance Theme Semester Course
The Historical Jesus in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Gabriele Boccaccini
Judaic 280
4 credits; HU
LEC - Tu/Th 2:30-4pm
DIS - F 12-1pm or 2-3pm
The Nazis and Art: Promoting, Demeaning, Plundering
Shelley Perlove
Judaic 318.010
3 credits; HU
Tu/Th 10-11:30am
Conversion and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain
Yanay Israeli
Judaic 324
3 credits; HU
Tu/Th 2:30-4pm
Angels and Demons, the Devil and the Messiah
Gabriele Boccaccini
Judaic 335
3 credits; HU
Tu/Th 5:30-7pm
The Holocaust
Jeffrey Veidlinger
Judaic 386
4 credits; RE, SS
LEC - Tu/Th 1-2:30pm
DIS - various days/times
History of American Jews
Karla Goldman
Judaic 387
4 credits; HU
LEC - M/W 10-11:30am
DIS - W 12-1pm or 2-3pm
Jewish Culture in America: 1945 to the Present
Julian Levinson
Judaic 389
3 credits; HU
M/W 2:30-4pm
Undergraduate/Graduate Elective
Graduate Elective
Languages
First Year Yiddish I
Elena Luchina
Judaic 101/431
4 credits
M/W 10-11:30am in-person
F 10-11am remote synchronous
Second Year Yiddish I
Elena Luchina
Judaic 201/531
4 credits
M/W 1-2:30pm in-person
Th 1-2pm remote synchronous
Ladino: Language and Culture or the Sephardi Jews
Gabriel Mordoch
Ladino 280/580
4 credits; HU
M/W 2:30-4pm in-person
Th 2:30-3:30pm remote synchronous
Meets 300-level Spanish Cognate
