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JEWISH
STUDIES
IN THE
UK 2002-03
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See
Survey 2007-08
The following
is an attempt to survey Jewish Studies related degrees
and course units currently on offer in the United
Kingdom. It was conducted on behalf of the British
Association for Jewish Studies and the Centre
for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester
by Daniel Langton. A search engine at the foot of
this page is provided for ease of use. A similar survey
has also been conducted for Holocaust
Studies. See
also survey of UK Jewish Studies
2000-01 (incl student numbers) and survey
of UK Jewish Studies 2001-02. See also the surveys for:
2000-01 (incl student numbers)
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2007-08
The
majority of the information was collated and confirmed
from June-August 2002. Any institution wishing to
add, update or correct information relating to its
courses should email info@BAJSBulletin.org.Details
of current UK Jewish Studies related PhD thesis titles
can be found on the BAJS
Bulletin website. Jewish
Studies Institutions in the survey include:
Centre
for Jewish-Christian Relations at Cambridge
Centre for Jewish Studies, University
of Leeds
Centre for Jewish Studies, University
of Manchester
Centre for Jewish Studies, SOAS
London
Dept of Hebrew & Jewish Studies,
University College London
Dept of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College
London
Leo Baeck College, London
London School of Jewish Studies
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish
Studies
Parkes Institute, University of
Southampton
Dept of German Studies, Queen's University, Belfast
University of Cambridge
University
of Leicester
University
of Oxford
University of Wales, Lampeter
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Centre
for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester
Website: www.mucjs.org
Department of Religions and Theology, University of Manchester,
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom. Tel 0161-275
3614, Fax 0161-275 3613.
Why
read Jewish Studies at University?
The
MUCJS is based within the Dept of Religions & Theology.
It is the only such Department in the UK to have achieved perfect
scores in both teaching and research assessment exercises.
UNDERGRADUATE
T670
BA
with Honours in Hebrew and Jewish Studies (in the
Department of
Middle Eastern Studies)
T654
BA
with Honours in Hebrew (in the Department of Middle
Eastern Studies)
Y300
BA (Hons) in Combined Studies (in the
Department of Combined Studies):
combining Jewish Studies (from one-third to two-thirds of the
programme)
with one of eleven other subject areas.* No language
requirement.
V800
BA with Honours in the Study of Religion
and Theology (in the Department
of Religions & Theology): no language requirement.
T608
Hebrew may be taken as one of two
languages in the BA in Middle Eastern
Languages.
TT62
Hebrew may be taken as one of two
languages in the BA in Middle Eastern
& Modern European Languages.
1ST
YEAR
NE 1211:
Modern Hebrew Language IA (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
a beginners level course, aiming to acquaint the student with
the basic structure of the language, using all four language
skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking.
NE 1222:
Modern Hebrew Language IB (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
a continuation of NE 1211, also suitable for students who already
have a very basic knowledge of the language.
NE 1710:
Introduction to the Contemporary Middle East (Ed Herzig,
email: edmund.herzig@man.ac.uk):
Intended for students with little previous knowledge of the
Middle East, this course aims to impart essential information
on the geography, peoples, politics and economics, as well as
to introduce major concepts and issues in Middle Eastern studies.
NE 1810:
The Middle East Before Islam; an Introduction (John Healey,
email: john.f.healey@man.ac.uk).
NE 1611/1622:
Aramaic/Syriac Language IA and IB (John Healey, email:
john.f.healey@man.ac.uk).
TH 1101:
The
World of the Ancient Israelites (John Applegate and
Adrian Curtis, email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk)
provides an introduction to the literary genres of the Hebrew
Bible/Old Testament and to modern Biblical Criticism and aims
to make students familiar with the geographical and cultural
context in which the ancient Israelites lived and from which
the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible emerged.
TH 1140:
Biblical
Hebrew (Adrian Curtis, email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk):
introduces students to the basic vocabulary, grammar and syntax
of Biblical Hebrew (designed for those who have no prior knowledge
of the Hebrew language).
TH 1192:
Introduction
to Judaism (Alan Unterman, email: Alan.Unterman@man.ac.uk):
provides an historical introduction to contemporary Judaism,
defining Judaism as a system of beliefs and practices based
on Torah. The basic creed of Judaism is explored, as expressed
in law, mysticism, ethics and philosophy. Major practices and
rituals are described. The course concludes with a demographic
and statistical overview of Judaism today, and a consideration
of some of the major issues which currently exercise the Jewish
community.
2ND
YEAR
(3rd year
students may be allowed one 2nd year course)
NE 2210:
Modern Hebrew Language IIA and IIB (Sophie Garside, email:
Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
a lower intermediate level course, aiming to improve and expand
the student's basic level to reach an intermediate level, using
all four language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking.
NE 2220:
Introduction to Modern Hebrew Texts (Sophie Garside,
email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
introduces students to a variety of modern Hebrew texts, e.g.
short stories, news extracts, reports, etc. It will be complementary
to the language courses and will help expand the students vocabulary,
reading skills and use of dictionaries.
NE 2230:
Biblical Hebrew Texts I (John Healey, email: john.f.healey@man.ac.uk):
a basic training in the methodology of traditional Hebrew Bible
studies, based on the students existing knowledge from first
level Hebrew, studied principally through classwork on Genesis
40-45 and selections from the Book of Psalms.
NE 2241:
Talmudic Judaism (10 Credits) (Alex Samely, email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
an introduction to the main concepts of talmudic Judaism in
its historical setting, its literary genres and its relationship
to the Hebrew Bible and other cultural influences.
NE 2252:
Readings in the Talmudic Judaism (10 Credits) (Alex Samely,
email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
supplements NE 2240 by the study of concrete examples of rabbinic
literature, requiring active preparation of texts to be discussed
in class.
NE 2261:
Semitic Languages; an Outline (John Healey, email: john.f.healey@man.ac.uk):
introduces the main features common to the Semitic language
family, with special emphasis on classification, writings systems,
phonology and morphology.
NE 2610
Aramaic/Syriac Language II (John Healey, email: john.f.healey@man.ac.uk).
TH 2002:
The Jews in Europe 1789-1939 (Sharman Kadish, email:
Sharman.Kadish@man.ac.uk):
This course explores the nature of Jewish identity under the
impact of modernization on traditional Jewish society as it
existed in the ghettos of Europe before the Enlightenment. It
examines the progress towards civil and political emancipation
of the Jews in Western Europe and the reasons for its failure
in Eastern Europe, especially in Russia. The range of Jewish
responses on exposure to European culture are studied, such
as Reform Judaism, Jewish socialism, Zionism, and mass migration.
An attempt is made to explain and analyse the recurring phenomenon
of anti-Semitism that culminated in the Nazi Holocaust.
TH 2161:
Dead
Sea Scrolls (George Brooke, email: George.Brooke@man.ac.uk):
a guided reading course which provides the opportunity for in-depth
study of one aspect of the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls which
is selected by those registering for the course at the start
of the academic year.
TH 2170:
Biblical
Hebrew Texts I (Adrian Curtis, email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk):
translation and exegesis of selected passages of the Hebrew
Bible (currently: Joshua 23-24; 2 Samuel 6-7; Jeremiah 1-5;
Psalms 15, 51, 82, 93, 137).
TH 2182:
The
Prophetic Literature (Adrian Curtis, email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk):discusses
the definition of the term prophet and its background in ancient
Israel. Some account is given of so-called primitive prophecy,
but the course concentrates on the messages of certain key figures
in the biblical prophetic tradition.
TH 2351:
Jewish
Liturgy and Religious Practice (Alan Unterman, email:
Alan.Unterman@man.ac.uk):
The course surveys the main elements of Jewish religious practice
from the late Second Temple period to Modern Times. It casts
light upon the history and variety of Jewish communities and
their contact with Christian and Islamic cultures; the development
of liturgy & ritual; community structures; the influences
of custom, mysticism & folklore; sacred time and sacred
space. The course concludes with the changes in liturgical and
ritual practice introduced as a response to modernity.
TH 2370:
Landmarks
in Jewish History (Irene Lancaster). The course surveys
the main landmarks in Jewish history from Second Temple times
to the 21st century. It embraces a variety of Jewish communities,
and their contact with Greek, Roman, Christian and Islamic cultures,
as well as those of more modern times. Throughout the course,
comparison is made between early and later Jewish historical
experience, in order to emphasise the relevance of ancient,
mediaeval and early modern history on contemporary Judaism,
including post-modernism. SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION
TH 2611:
Introduction
to the History of Jewish-Christian Relations (Daniel
Langton, email: Daniel.Langton@man.ac.uk):
First half provides an overview of the history of Jewish-Christian
relations. Second half adopts a thematic approach and highlights
the development of the thought and theology of various individuals,
concentrating particularly on the last hundred years or so.
3RD
YEAR
(2nd year
students may be allowed one 3rd year course)
NE 3200:
Jewish Aramaic Texts (Alex Samely, email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
a detailed study of selected Aramaic documents aimed at teaching
students how to appreciate advanced forms of rabbinic exegetical
and legal discourse. Course Texts: Palestinian Targum Gen 4;
Targum Song of Songs 1-3; Talmud Bavli Sukkah 2a-5a.
NE 3210:
Modern Hebrew Language III (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
an upper intermediate level language course, aiming to achieve
a higher level of fluency in the language using all four skills:
reading, writing, listening and speaking.
NE 3220:
Modern Hebrew Literature (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
aims at developing fluency in reading and the appreciation of
modern Hebrew literature, including a brief introduction to
the history of Modern Hebrew Literature. The works of three
modern Hebrew authors (Agnon, Appelfeld , Oz) are studied in
the original, using English translations as support.
NE 3250:
Medieval Hebrew Texts (Alex Samely, email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
study of the essential characteristics of the religious discourse
of medieval Judaism, through a detailed study (in the original)
of the following exegetical and philosophical texts: Gen. 1-3;
David Kimhi on Psalms 125-130 (ed. Baker-Nicholson); Maimonides,
Mishneh Torah, Hilkhot Yesode ha-Torah, I-III (ed. Aramah).
NE 3270:
Modern Hebrew Language IV (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
an advanced level language course, aiming to provide the student
with additional tools to make a free and creative use of contemporary
Hebrew.
NE 3870:
Jewish Philosophy in the 20th Century (Alex Samely, email:
Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
aims to introduce students to discourse of the 20th century.
Central texts by philosophers such as Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig,
Fackenheim and Levinas are investigated with special regard
to their contribution of the problem of (existential) time,
hermeneutics and ethics, as well as the significance of the
holocaust.
TH 3100:
Being
Jewish in Britain (Bill Williams, email: BillWilliams@history.freewire.co.uk):
This course introduces students to the empirical study of Jewish
identity in contemporary Britain and to the collection and interpretation
of oral testimony.
TH 3192:
Jewish
Law and Problems of Jewish Life in the Modern World
(Bernard Jackson, email: Bernard.Jackson@man.ac.uk):
(alt: TH 3252): examines the approach of Jewish law to interfaith
relations (including the role of the trial of Jesus), the "legal
system" and its values, marriage, divorce, conversion,
the status of women (especially in the context of succession),
Jewish identity, medico-legal problems and the relationship
between law and state in the modern State of Israel. Bibliography
TH 3331
Holocaust
Theology (Daniel Langton, email: Daniel.Langton@man.ac.uk):
Considers the influence of the Shoah upon Jewish thought and
the implications for Jewish-Christian Relations. Close readings
of significant thinkers.
TH 3380:
Biblical
Hebrew Texts II (Adrian Curtis, email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk):
translation and exegesis of selected passages of the Hebrew
Bible (currently: Joshua 23-24; Judges 4-5; 2 Samuel 6-7; Jeremiah
1-5; Psalms 15, 51, 82, 93, 137; Ecclesiastes 1-3). MA students
(TH 9380) also study Exodus 21:1-22:16 with Professor Jackson.
TH 3912:
Jewish
Literature of the Early Graeco-Roman Period (George
Brooke, email: George.Brooke@man.ac.uk):
pays particular attention to identifying the characteristics
of a wide range of literary genres including stories, poems,
wisdom literature, testaments, apocalypses, philosophy, and
history writing. Literary works from both the early Palestinian
Judaism and also from the Jewish diaspora are studied. Some
elementary knowledge of the history of the period 200 BCE -
200 CE is covered briefly at the beginning of the course. All
the compositions are studied in English.
TH 3921:
Ancient
Israel: Recent Research (Adrian Curtis, email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk):
this seminar-based course enables students to consider in detail
a number of issues of current or recent debate in the field
of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, the topics being decided each
year in consultation with the members of the class.
TH 3991:
Archaeology of Jerusalem and Palestine (John Kane): studies
issues in the archaeology of Palestine in the Hellenistic and
early Roman periods. The focus is the Jewish State and its identity
as revealed by material remains studied alongside written sources.
TH 4001:
Special
Subject: Dead Sea Scrolls (George Brooke, email: George.Brooke@man.ac.uk):
This course provides an opportunity for in-depth study of one
aspect of the Dead Sea Scrolls, selected by each participant
at the start of the semester.
POSTGRADUATE
MA in Jewish Studies
TH 9651
Sources, Resources and Methods in the
Study of Judaism compulsory core course
TH 9100 Being
Jewish in Britain (Bill Williams, email:
BillWilliams@history.freewire.co.uk):
Introduces the empirical study of the Jewish identity in contemporary
Britain and to the collection and interpretation of oral testimony.
TH 9140
Biblical Hebrew (Adrian Curtis,
email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk):
Introduces the vocabulary, grammar and syntax of Biblical Hebrew.
Aims primarily to prepare students to undertake the subsequent
study of Bible and make intelligent use of commentaries and
other works which presume a knowledge of Hebrew. Regular written
exercises and oral work in class are crucial. This course will
be enhanced with additional reading and exercises for MA students.
TH 9980
Archaeology of Jerusalem and Palestine (John Kane): Studies
issues in the archaeology of Palestine in the Hellenistic and
early Roman periods. The focus is the Jewish State and its identity
as revealed by material remains studied alongside written sources.
NE 1211
+ 1212
Modern Hebrew Language (Sophie Garside,
email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
Modern Hebrew at any of the levels I-IV.
NE 6200
Jewish Aramaic Texts (Alex Samely,
email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
Introduces Syriac grammar through grammatical explanation and
exercises, Aramaic texts and the Aramaic of the Book of Daniel.
NE 8100 Jewish
Philosophy in the 20th Century (Alex Samely, email:
Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
Introduces the conceptual contributions of thinkers of Jewish
orientation including Cohen, Buber, Rosenweig, Fackenheim and
Levinas.
TH 6111
Holocaust Theology (Daniel
Langton, email: Daniel.Langton@man.ac.uk):
explores a number of theological responses to the Holocaust,
with Jewish and Christian writers including Richard Rubenstein,
Emil Fackenheim, Irving Greenberg, Ignaz Maybaum, Eliezer Berkovits,
Arthur Cohen, Rosemary Ruether, Paul van Buren.
TH 9001Approaches
and Methods in the Study of the Hebrew Bible (Adrian
Curtis, email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk):
Introduces students to a variety of approaches to, and methods
of study of, the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament which have been
employed during the twentieth century, and to consider their
respective contributions.
TH 9091
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion
TH 9921
Ancient Israel: Recent Research (Adrian
Curtis, email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk):
Considers a number of issues of current or recent debate in
the field of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. This course will be
enhanced with additional reading and exercises for MA students.
TH 9991
Dead Sea Scrolls (George Brooke,
email: George.Brooke@man.ac.uk):
Explores in depth one aspect of the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
TH 9192 Jewish
Law and Problems of Jewish Life in the Modern World
(Bernard Jackson, email: Bernard.Jackson@man.ac.uk):
Explores specific legal problems, to appreciate the nature of
and constraints upon development in Jewish law and the problems
of its application in the modern world.
TH 9382
Hebrew Texts (Adrian Curtis,
email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk):
Explores selected passages from the Hebrew Bible and consideration
of issues of textual, linguistic and exegetical interest arising
from them.
TH 9812 Jewish
Approaches to Jesus and Paul (Daniel
Langton, email: Daniel.Langton@man.ac.uk):
explores Jewish approaches to Jesus and the apostle Paul, concentrating
on the modern period, and places them in the wider context of
the study of Jewish-Christian relations.
TH 9912
Jewish Literature of the Early Graeco-
Roman Period (George Brooke, email: George.Brooke@man.ac.uk):
Introduces the non-biblical Jewish literature of the late Second
Temple period.
NE 9142
The Legal Discourse of Classical Judaism
(Alex Samely, email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
Explores some of the central concerns, topics, conceptual assumptions
and methods of rabbinic legal discourse, in particular in the
Mishnaic period.
NE 9132
The Exegetical Discourse of Classical
Judaism (Alex Samely, email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
Introduces the literary formats, topics, and hermeneutic methods
of rabbinic Bible interpretation, in particular in the earlier
period (Mishnah and Bereshit Rabba).
MA in Hebrew
(involving language element)
NE 9142 The
Legal Discourse of Rabbinic Judaism (Alex Samely, email:
Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk)
NE 6200 Jewish
Aramaic Texts (Alex Samely, email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk)
TH 9991 Dead
Sea Scrolls (George Brooke, email: George.Brooke@man.ac.uk)
TH 9382 Hebrew
Texts (Adrian Curtis, email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk)
PhD/MPhil
(Jewish Studies related)
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Centre
for Jewish-Christian Relations at Cambridge
Website: www.cjcr.cam.ac.uk
Wesley House, 30 Jesus Lane, Cambridge CB5
8BJ, United Kingdom. Tel 44 1223 741 048.
UNDERGRADUATE:
Introduction
to Judaism, BTh/Certificate in Theology for Ministry (George
Wilkes, email: grw1000@cam.ac.uk)
POSTGRADUATE:
MA Jewish-Christian
Relations
Jewish-Christian
Relations: The Foundations and Their Contemporary Significance
(James Aitken, email: j.k.aitken@reading.ac.uk;
Melanie Wright, email: mjw48@cam.ac.uk)
Jewish-Christian Relations in Europe in the Twentieth Century
(George Wilkes, email: grw1000@cam.ac.uk)
Jewish and Christian Biblical Interpretation (Edward Kessler,
email: edk21@cus.cam.ac.uk)
Jewish and Christian Responses to the Holocaust (K Hannah Holtschneider,
email: kh258@cam.ac.uk)
Jews and Christians in literature and film (Melanie Wright,
email: mjw48@cam.ac.uk)
Land of Promise and Conflict: Challenges for Interfaith Understanding
(George Wilkes, email: grw1000@cam.ac.uk)
MPhil:
Jewish-Christian Relations
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University
of Wales, Lampeter
Website: www.lamp.ac.uk/trs/
Department
of Theology, Religious Studies & Islamic Studies, University
of Wales, Lampeter, Ceredigion, SA48 7ED, United Kingdom. Tel
01570 424708, Fax 01570 423641.
UNDERGRADUATE:
Introduction
to Judaism (Dan Cohn-Sherbok, email: cohn-sherbok@lamp.ac.uk)
Understanding the Holocaust (Dan Cohn-Sherbok, email: cohn-sherbok@lamp.ac.uk)
Wisdom of Judaism (Dan Cohn-Sherbok, email: cohn-sherbok@lamp.ac.uk)
Elementary Hebrew (Dan Cohn-Sherbok, email: cohn-sherbok@lamp.ac.uk)
Hebrew Bible (Dan Cohn-Sherbok, email: cohn-sherbok@lamp.ac.uk)
Israel (Dan Cohn-Sherbok, email: cohn-sherbok@lamp.ac.uk)
Judaism and Christianity (Dan Cohn-Sherbok, email: cohn-sherbok@lamp.ac.uk)
POSTGRADUATE:
PhD/MPhil
(Jewish Studies related)
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Leo
Baeck College
Website: www.lbc.ac.uk
80 East End Road, Finchley, London N3
2SY, United Kingdom. Tel
020 83495600, Fax 020 83432558.
UNDERGRADUATE:
BA (Hons)
Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Bible (Jonathan
Magonet, email: jonathan.magonet@lbc.ac.uk)
Talmud (Mark Solomon, email: m.solomon@ljs.org)
Midrash (Joanna Weinberg, email: joanna.weinberg@oriental-institute.oxford.ac.uk)
Codes and Responsa (John Rayner, email: john.rayner@lbc.ac.uk)
Jewish Thought (Esther Seidel, email: ESeide19@aol.com
and Sheila Shulman, email: shulman@clara.co.uk)
Jewish History (Cesar Merchan Hamann, email: cesar@lbc.ac.uk)
POSTGRADUATE:
MA in Jewish Education (Helena Miller, email: Helena.Miller@cje.org.uk)
MA Hebrew and Jewish Studies degree programme
PhD/MPhil
(Jewish Studies related)
OTHER COURSES:
Advanced
Diploma in Professional Development: Jewish Education (Jo-Ann
Myers, email: Jo-Myers@cje.org.uk)
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Parkes
Institute for the Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations, University
of Southampton
Websites: www.arts.soton.ac.uk
and www.soton.ac.uk/~parkes/
Department of History, Avenue Campus,
University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.
Tel 023 80592261, Fax 023 80593458.
UNDERGRADUATE:
BA (Hons)
Jewish History & Culture (available in combinations with
History, English Spanish, French, or German - but not as a single
honours programme).
Jewish
Fictions (Nadia Valman, email: n.d.valman@soton.ac.uk)
Holocaust Literature (Andrea Reiter, email: air@soton.ac.uk)
Out of the Ghetto: Heine, Disraeli and the Warner Brothers (Tony
Kushner, email: ark@soton.ac.uk;
Nils Roemer, email: nr2@soton.ac.uk)
Who is Anne Frank? (Jo Reilly, email: j.reilly@soton.ac.uk)
The Making of the Modern Jew: ethnicity, modernity and the Jews
of Europe, 1789-1914 (David Cesarani, email: dc11@soton.ac.uk)
Making of Englishness (Tony Kushner, email: ark@soton.ac.uk)
The Holocaust: Inside and Outside History (Mark Roseman, email:
m.roseman@soton.ac.uk)
From the Dead Sea Scrolls to Jesus (Sarah Pearce, email: s.j.pearce@soton.ac.uk)
German-Jewish Culture from the Enlightenment to the Present
(Nils Roemer, email: nr2@soton.ac.uk)
Israel or Palestine? The British in Palestine 1917-1948 (Mark
Levene, email: ml1@soton.ac.uk)
Early Jewish Magic (Dan Levene, email: d.levene@soton.ac.uk)
Hebrew, the Language of the Bible (Dan Levene, email: d.levene@soton.ac.uk)
Memory, Ethics, Jewishness (Bridget Thomson, email: B.J.Thomson@soton.ac.uk)
What is German-Jewish Writing? (Bridget Thomson, email: B.J.Thomson@soton.ac.uk)
POSTGRADUATE:
MA
Jewish History and Culture
The History of Jews in Babylonia (Dan Levene, email: d.levene@soton.ac.uk)
Representations of the Holocaust (Jo Reilly, email: j.reilly@soton.ac.uk)
Jews & Non-Jews throughout the Ages (Tony Kushner, email:
ark@soton.ac.uk;
Dan Levene, email: d.levene@soton.ac.uk;
Nils Roemer, email: nr2@soton.ac.uk)
Relations between Jews & Non-Jews in the Hellenistic World
(Sarah Pearce, email: s.j.pearce@soton.ac.uk)
Approaches to Jewish History and Culture (Nils Roemer, email
nr2@soton.ac.uk;
Mark Levene, email: ml1@soton.ac.uk)
The
History of Jews in Babylonia (Dan Levene, email: d.levene@soton.ac.uk)
Memory
and Nostalgia; Modern Jewish History (Nils Roemer, email: nr2@soton.ac.uk)
Britain,
the USA and the Holocaust 1933-1995 (Tony Kushner, email: ark@soton.ac.uk)
Fin
de Siecle: Jewish Literature and Culture (Nadia Valman, email:
n.d.valman@soton.ac.uk)
Diasporas
of the Mind: Post War British Jewish Writing (Brian Cheyette,
email: bhc@soton.ac.uk)
East
Side, East End: Jewish Immigration and Settlement in London
and New York 1880-1920 (David Cesarani, email: dc11@soton.ac.uk)
Holocaust Literature: Expressing the Other (Andrea
Reiter, email: air@soton.ac.uk)
PhD
(Jewish Studies related)
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Oxford
Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Website: http://associnst.ox.ac.uk/ochjs
Yarnton
Manor, Yarnton, Oxford, OX5 1PY, United Kingdom. Tel 01865 377946,
Fax 01865 375079.
POSTGRADUATE:
1 year M.St.
in Jewish Studies
Biblical
Hebrew language (Jill Middlemas, email: jill.middlemas@theology.ox.ac.uk)
Modern Hebrew language (Tali
Argov, email: tali.argov@ochjs.ac.uk)
Yiddish language (Kerstin
Hoge, email: khoge@ermine.ox.ac.uk)
Speech and Silence: Methods of Response in Modern Hebrew Literature
(Glenda
Abramson, email: glenda.abramson@stx.ox.ac.uk)
Introduction
to Judaism (Jeremy Schonfield, email: jjschon@globalnet.co.uk)
Introduction to Talmud (Norman Solomon, email: NormanatOxford@aol.com)
The History of the Arab Israeli Conflict (Emanuele Ottolenghi,
email: emanuele.ottolenghi@sant.ox.ac.uk)
Jewish and Christian Bible Translation and Interpretation in
Antiquity (Alison Salveson, email: alison.salveson@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Jewish History 200 B.C.E.-70 C.E. (Martin Goodman, email: martin.goodman@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Judaism and Islam: Medieval Intellectual Traditions (Ronald
Nettler, email: ronald.nettler@mansfield.ox.ac.uk)
Modern European Jewish History (David Rechter, email: david.rechter@history.ox.ac.uk)
Survey of Medieval Jewish History (Joanna Weinberg, email: joanna.weinberg@oriental-institute.oxford.ac.uk)
The Emergence of Modern Religious Movements in Judaism (Miri
Freud-Kandel, email: miri.freud-kandel@oriental-institute.oxford.ac.uk)
Questions of Jewish Identity in Yiddish Literature, (Joseph
Sherman, email: joseph.sherman@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
The Rise of Formative Judaism and Christianity (Piet van Boxel,
email: vanboxel@ochjs.ac.uk)
Witnessing
the Holocaust, (Zoë Waxman, email: zoe.waxman@mansfield.ox.ac.uk)
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Dept
of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London
Website: www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/index.htm
University College London, Gower Street,
London, WC1E 6BT. Tel 020 76792000.
The Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies is the only
independent department in the UK, based at University College
London.
As the first university to open its doors to Women, Roman Catholics
and Dissenters, UCL was also the first to admit Jewish students.
This traditional link of the College with the Anglo-Jewish community
is very much alive today.
UNDERGRADUATE
The degree
programmes are taught by the department, in collaboration with
other UCL departments and with the School of Oriental and African
Studies (SOAS) which is situated within a short walking distance
of the College.
BA Honours
Hebrew
and other Semitic languages
BA Honours Jewish
History (with Hebrew)
BA Honours Italian
and Jewish Studies
BA Honours German
and Jewish Studies
BA Honours History
and Jewish studies
(Central & Eastern European History and Jewish Studies)
1ST
YEAR
B37: A
Survey of Jewish History & Culture in First Millenium BCE
(Mark Geller, email: m.geller@ucl.ac.uk). The emergence of Judaism from Old Testament
religious institutions; the impact of Hellenism; sectarianism.
B38: A Survey of Jewish History & Culture in First Millenium
CE (Willem Smelik, email: willem.smelik@ucl.ac.uk).
The First and Second Revolt against the Romans; the development
of rabbinic literature in Palestine and Babylon; the use of
archaeological evidenc under Roman rule in the Byzantine period;
the Babylonian academies; the Karaites; Judeo-Arabic literature;
the Cairo Genizah.
B39: A Survey of Jewish History & Culture from 1000-1800
(Michael Berkowitz, email: m.berkowitz@ucl.ac.uk).
The decline of the Gaonate in the East and the rise of new centres
of Hebrew scholarship in Western Europe; the emergence of Jewish
self-governing institutions; the formation of Ashkenazi Jewry;
Sephardi Jewry to the expulsion from Spain; the Jewish philosophical
and mystical traditions; the Marrano Diaspora; the mystical
messianism of Sabbatai Zvi; Hasidism.
B40: A Survey of Jewish History & Culture from 1800-Present
(Lars Fischer, email: clara.m.zetkin@btinternet.com).
Enlightenment, Emancipation, Reform, nationalism and secularism;
Antisemitism; Zionism.
B12: Introduction to Classical Hebrew (Willem Smelik,
email: willem.smelik@ucl.ac.uk).
In-depth introduction to the grammar and syntax of biblical
Hebrew, using narrative texts. The aim of this course is to
prepare students for reading the Hebrew Bible independently.
This relatively intensive course for absolute beginners will
be based on. T.O. Lambdin, Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
(New York: Charles Scribner, 1971; or later reprint); additional
materials will be handed out in class.
B86: Modern Hebrew for Beginners (Julie Adar, email:
julieadar@yahoo.co.uk).
Basic grammatical outline; intensive acquisition of vocabulary;
reading of easy Hebrew texts (e.g. simplified newspapers); introduction
to essay-writing and conversation over a fairly limited range
of topics.
Those students who have already some command of Biblical or
Modern Hebrew may be advised to take the equivalent 2nd year
courses, B113 and B78, instead of B12 and B86.
2ND YEAR
Course titles followed by an asterix, *, will not be offered
in the academic year 2002/2003. Students may register their
interest in any of these courses, so that they might be offered
and taken in the following year(s).
B113: Further Classical Hebrew (Sally Gold, email: sallygold@blueyonder.co.uk).
This course may be taken as the second level of course B12.
Further in-depth study of the grammar and syntax of Classical
Hebrew, using Lambdin's grammar. A fair selection of chapters
from the Hebrew Bible will be read in class; students will be
required to read a number of chapters independently. 80 lectures,
1 year.
B78: Modern Hebrew (Lower Intermediate) (Julie Adar,
email: julieadar@yahoo.co.uk).
Modern Hebrew language at second year level , 100 hours, 1 year.
Student workload: Grammar, written and oral practice. New students
with some exposure to modern Hebrew may be allowed to take this
course, after succesfully passing a test in the registration
week. For those with a higher level of modern Hebrew, the two
more advanced levels are recommendable.
B79: Modern Hebrew (Higher Intermediate) (Tsila Ratner,
email:t.ratner@ucl.ac.uk). Modern
Hebrew at second to third year level. 80 hours, 1 year. Student
workload: Grammar, written and oral practice. Means of assessment:
1 exam (35%); course work (45%); oral skills (5%); oral exam
(15%). Admission: This course may not be taken by students who
have completed their year abroad; they will have to take B80:
Modern Hebrew (Advanced).
B81: Advanced Modern Hebrew (Tsila Ratner, email:t.ratner@ucl.ac.uk). Modern
Hebrew language at third to fourth year level. Advanced language
work to enable students to communicate over a wide range of
topics both in speech and in writing. 80 hours, 1 year. Student
workload: Grammar, written and oral practice Pre-requisite:
students will be required to have completed either B78 and their
year abroad, or B79 Higher Intermediate.
B32: Biblical Aramaic * (Mark Geller, email: m.geller@ucl.ac.uk) The
Aramaic portions of Daniel and Ezra, studied with reference
to philology and historical background. 50 hours, 1 year.
C71: Introduction to Sumerian Language (Mark Geller,
email: m.geller@ucl.ac.uk)
00: Jewish Aramaic Literature (Willem
Smelik, email: willem.smelik@ucl.ac.uk).
An introduction to Jewish postbiblical Aramaic literature, beginning
with Targum Onqelos, including selected texts from Aramaic poetry,
Genesis Apocryphon, Midrashim (Bereshit Rabbah or Echa Rabbah),
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, Targum Neofiti, Tosefta-Targum to the
Prophets. All texts will be read in Aramaic, with detailed attention
to language, the Hebrew original and the mode of translation,
exegetical traditions and linguistic developments.
C83: Introduction to Syriac * (Gillian
Greenberg). The course will include a comprehensive introduction
to Syriac grammar and syntax and study of a wide range of texts
including passages from the Peshitta, the Syriac translation
of the Hebrew Bible and of the New Testament; commentary from
the period of the Church Fathers and from secular texts.
C97: Intermediate Syriac (Gillian Greenberg).
The course is suitable for students who already have some knowledge
of basic Syriac and have read some Syriac texts and who wish
to develop their language skills and to read more widely.
B9: Pentateuchal Texts * (Willem Smelik,
email: willem.smelik@ucl.ac.uk).
25 lectures, 1 written paper. About twelve chapters from the
Pentateuch, including narrative, legal and poetic material,
studies with reference to philology, textual criticism and historical
background.
B8: Old Testament Historical Texts * (Willem
Smelik, email: willem.smelik@ucl.ac.uk).
About fifteen chapters selected from the historical books (Joshua-Kings,
Esther and Ezra-Chronicles), studies with reference to philology,
textual criticism, source criticism, archaeology and historical
background.
C3: Old Testament Prophetic Texts * (Willem
Smelik, email: willem.smelik@ucl.ac.uk).
About twelve chapters selected from the prophetic books, studies
with reference to philology, poetic structure, textual criticism
and historical background.
C5: Old Testament Wisdom Texts * (Willem
Smelik, email: willem.smelik@ucl.ac.uk).
About twelve chapters selected from Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs,
Ecclesiastes and the Hebrew of Ecclesiasticus, studied with
reference to philology, poetic structure, textual criticism
and historical background.
B16: Medieval Hebrew Prose *
Half unit. 25 lectures, 1 written paper. Specimens of halakhic,
philosophical and literary texts, both original Hebrew compositions
and Hebrew translations from Arabic. Attention will be paid
to the evolution of technical vocabulary etc. for the translation
of scientific texts, and to environmental influences on Hebrew
genre and style.
B87: A Survey of Modern Hebrew Literature
(Tsila Ratner, email:t.ratner@ucl.ac.uk). Selected
readings in both prose and verse in modern Hebrew literature
with attention to the cultural and social context.
B54: A Survey of Modern Hebrew Poetry
*. The course will map out the major developments in Hebrew
poetry in the forty years since the establishment of the state
of Israel, focusing on both cultural and poetic aspects of the
writings of Amir Gilboa, Yehudah Amichai, Natan Zach and Dalia
Ravikovitch.
C22: The Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi
(with texts) * (Ada Rapoport Albert, email: uclhara@ucl.ac.uk). The
popularisation of the Kabbalah in the 17th century; the main
characteristics of the Lurianic Kabbalah and its messianic dimension;
the success of Sabbataeanism as a Kabbalistic-messianic movement
against the background of European millennarianism and conditions
of crisis or transition affecting much of the Jewish Diaspora.;
the historiography of Sabbataeanism; central themes in Sabbataean
theology illustrated by readings in class from selected Sabbataean
texts.
C23 The History and Literature of the Hasidic
Movement * (Ada Rapoport-Albert, email: uclhara@ucl.ac.uk). The
rise of Hasidism in the Ukraine in the middle of the 18th century
and its rapid spread in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe,
against the background of the decline of the Polish kingdom,
the collapse of centralised Jewish self-government in the region
and the aftermath of the Sabbataean heresy. Central themes in
Hasidic theology are illustrated by readings in class from selected
Hasidic texts.
C72: Hasidism and Modernity (Tali Loewenthal,
email: taliloewenthal@compuserve.com).
Hasidic responses to rationalism, the increasing role of the
woman and other features of modernity, studied in Hebrew sources.
Prerequisite: Knowledge of Hebrew.
B118: The culture of Sephardic Jewry
(Hilary Pomeroy, email: Hilarypomeroy@aol.com)..
A survey of Sephardic Jewish Culture.
B27: Jewish Thought in the Modern Era
*. This course will examine the major trends in the intellectual
history of Jewry in the modern era. Religious, philosophical
and political thought as developed both by individuals (Spinoza,
Mendelssohn, SR Hirsch, Buber etc.) and by movements (the ideologies
of Bundism, Reform Judaism, modern Orthodoxy etc.) will be studied.
B25: History of Antisemitism *. An
examination of antisemitic thought and politics from the mid-nineteenth
century until the post World War II period. Distinctions between
anti-Judaism and antisemitism will be discussed; trends will
be traced in Central, Western and Eastern Europe. Attention
will be given to the Holocaust. Attitudes towards Jews in post
World War II Europe, America and elsewhere will also be studied.
B48: History of the Jews in the Soviet Union
* (John Klier, email: j.klier@ucl.ac.uk).The course
surveys the political, cultural and economic history of the
Jews from the time of the Revolutions of 1917 to the present.
B20: Transition and Crisis in the Seventeenth
Century *. The proliferation of the ex-marrano communities
in Western Europe: the Jewish role in the rise of modern capitalism;
the effects of the Thirty Years War, the 1648-49 massacres
of the Jews in the Ukraine; the Sabbataean heresy.
C84: Culture of Zionism (Michael Berkowitz,
email: m.berkowitz@ucl.ac.uk).
The key aim of this course is to consider Zionism as a “construct”
nationalist movement and ideology. It will include a study of
Zionist ‘icons’ such as Herzl, Weizmann, Jabotinsky and
Ben-Gurion.
B33: European Jewry and the Holocaust *
(Michael Berkowitz, email: m.berkowitz@ucl.ac.uk).
The course places the events of the Holocaust in the context
of twentieth century European history, the history of antisemitism
and the history of post-emancipation European Jewry. It surveys
the course of the Holocaust, analyses its causes and examines
its impact on contemporary Jewry.
HISTC200: History of the Sumerians * (Mark Geller, email:
m.geller@ucl.ac.uk).
This course covers the history and culture of Mesopotamia, including
literature, art, archeology and historiography. Particular attention
is paid to documentary evidence, rather than the chronological
sequence of events.
B23: Jewry in the West: 1789 to the Present
*. The course will examine the response of the Jews in Western
Europe and in the New World to the impact of modernisation.
Social, economic, cultural and political developments and their
interaction will also be studied.
B26: Jews in Revolution and Revolutionary
Jews *. This course will examine the impact of major revolutions
(particularly those of 1789, 1848, 1905 and 1917-19) on the
Jewish population, and the role played by Jews (whether collectively
or individually) in revolutionary movements and in revolutions
during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
C92: Comparative
Peacemaking in Israel and Northern Ireland (Neill Lochery,
email: n.lochery@ucl.ac.uk).
This course aims to provide students with knowledge of the recent
developments in the Arab Israeli and Northern Irish peace processes.
It also aims to provide an analysis of themes in peacemaking,
ranging from the use of interim stage agreements to peace dividends
and the need to educate wider populations to recognise benefits
of peace.
C93: The Arab / Israeli Conflict (Neill
Lochery, email: n.lochery@ucl.ac.uk).
An analysis of the Arab Israeli conflict from its origins through
to the present day. Special attention will be paid to the internal
dynamics within both the Arab states and Israel, as well as
the role of external powers in the conflict.
B109: The Peace Process in Modern Israeli
Politics 1967-97 * (Neill Lochery, email: n.lochery@ucl.ac.uk).
The class will survey issues of peace and war from the conclusion
of the six-day war to the present. Special attention will be
given to Palestinian-Israeli relations.
B24: Jewish Politics: Traditional and
Modern *
50 lectures, 1 written paper, 3 essays (30%). This course will
examine the development of modern forms of Jewish political
thought and organisation. Particular emphasis will be placed
on the evolution of traditional political behaviour, on the
overlap of continuity and change, and on the comparison between
the differing patterns of development in the West, in Eastern
Europe, and the oriental communities.
B110: The Politics of the State of Israel
to 1967 * (Neill Lochery, email: n.lochery@ucl.ac.uk)
. The class will survey the political history of the State of
Israel from its foundation to the six-day war of 1967. The evolution
of Israeli political parties will be explored. Special attention
will be paid to issues of security in Israeli national politics.
B101: Modern Jewish Politics * (Michael
Berkowitz, email: m.berkowitz@ucl.ac.uk).
This course examines the emergence and development of the new
Jewish politics in Europe and the United States in the late-nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. Proceeding thematically and geographically,
issues of Jewish identity and its political expressions will
be explored. Themes to be addressed include the contrasts between
Jewish politics in eastern and western Europe and the United
States, Jewish political subcultures, the varieties of Jewish
nationalism, and the impact of World War I and the Holocaust
on Jewish politics.
C94: The Transformation of Jewish Culture in Early Modern
Europe (Prof. D. Ruderman). The course considers the criteria
for defining the early modern period as a unique epoch in the
cultural and intellectual history of European Jewry. Through
an investigation of several major thems – all relatively new
factors in the shaping of Jewish culture and society from roughly
1492 to 1750 – it argues that this period can be meaningfully
demarcated as distinct from both earlier and later Jewish cultural
experiences.
B122: Jews and the Classical World (D. Jacobson). The
course will examine the cultural interaction between the Jews,
on the one hand, and the Hellenistic World and the ascendant
Roman Empire on the other, from Alexander the Great to the Bar
Kochba rebellion, covering a period of almost half a millennium.
This momentous period saw the rise of Rabbinical Judaism and
the birth of Christianity. Its final years were marked by the
extinction of the Jewish nation state. The major theme of this
lecture course will be explored with reference to literary,
epigraphical and archaeological evidence. It will be shown how
recent discoveries have supplemented the historical sources
and improved our knowledge of the Jews in Classical antiquity,
although they have also raised new questions.
C65: House of Maimonides * (Sara Sviri, email: ssviri@parpar.demon.co.uk).
An examination of medieval Jewish philosophy and thought centering
on Moses Maimonides and his school.
C95: Jews, Radicals, and Socialists in 19th
c. Europe (Lars Fischer, email: clara.m.zetkin@btinternet.com).
Combining elements of political, social, and intellectual history,
the course will focus on Socialist perceptions of matters Jewish,
Socialist responses to the emergence of modern Antisemitism,
Jewish participation in the Socialist movement, and the relationship
between Jewish Socialism and Jewish Nationalism.
B45: Zionism and its Critics *
50 lectures, 1 written paper, 2 essays (30%). This course will
examine the history of Zionism in the light of internal Jewish
opposition and non-Jewish critiques of the movement since its
emergence at the end of the nineteenth century.
B88: Hebrew Literature and the Holocaust
* Professor Ruth Kartun-Blum. The course will explore how
the historical and moral devastation of the Holocaust has affected
subsequent writing on the Holocaust in Hebrew and Israeli literature,
over three generations. Questions addressed include the issue
of authenticity in fictional writing on the Holocaust, the use
of documentation, the function of comedy as a means of indictment,
the significance of scriptural reference and the dislocation
of traditional forms. Attention will focus on the work of Aharon
Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Yoram Kaniuk, David Shuetz and David Grossman.
C32: Elementary Yiddish (Helen Beer,
email: h.beer@ucl.ac.uk)A year-long
(two term) class for students with no prior study of Yiddish.
C36: Intermediate Yiddish (Helen Beer,
email: h.beer@ucl.ac.uk). Instruction
in the Yiddish language for students who have taken Elementary
Yiddish or who can demonstrate an equivalent level of attainment.
The main focus is on acquiring fluency in the reading of Yiddish
source materials in a wide variety of registers.
C45: Advanced Yiddish * (Helen Beer, email:
h.beer@ucl.ac.uk). Further
instruction in Yiddish for students who have either successfully
completed the intermediate course or who are of comparable ability.
More demanding texts are studied and questions of advanced syntax
and usage are addressed.
C46: The History of the Yiddish Language *
(Helen Beer, email: h.beer@ucl.ac.uk). Yiddish
seen in the framework of Jewish Languages. The ethnic, geographical
and historical factors that gave rise to the birth of the language
and of its culture. Yiddish as a fusion language. Study of the
earliest Yiddish texts. The spread of the language from Germany
to Italy, Eastern Europe and the Ashkenazic diaspora. The decline
of Yiddish in Western Europe. The dialects and the standards
language. Sociolinguistic questions and the development of Yiddishism.
C47: Survey of the History of Yiddish
Literature *. Secular and devotional genres in old Yiddish
literature. Centres of printing and dissemination. The impact
of the Haskalah and Hasidism on Yiddish literature. The growth
of a new literary culture in Eastern Europe. The nineteenth
century classics. The major centres in the inter-war period,
Yiddish Modernism and post-war Yiddish literature.
C48: Yiddish Literature: Special Topics.
In this course, which is primarily intended for students who
have already completed Advanced Yiddish and the Survey of the
History of Yiddish Literature, specific topics in Yiddish literature
are selected in consultation with the participants for the purposes
of in-depth study.
C96: Yiddish Folk
Literature (Helen Beer, email: h.beer@ucl.ac.uk). No details
available.
C70: Ugaritic
(Mark Geller, email: m.geller@ucl.ac.uk).
The language of Ancient Canaan. Texts from the ancient Syrian
city of Ugarit (fifteenth to thirteenth centuries BCE), with
introduction to their language. Pre-requisite: Some knowledge
of Classical Hebrew. Suitable for students with an interest
in Classical Hebrew.
C15: Introduction to the Babylonian Talmud
* Grammar and Interpretation of the Babylonian Talmud. One
chapter (comprising perhaps ten folios) from the Babylonian
Talmud will be read in full, with attention to language, historical
background, the modes of argumentation and the development of
Jewish practice.
C24: History of the Jews in England *.
The Medieval Jewish community in England from 1066 to 1290,
the readmission of the Jews to England in the 17th
century, Sephardi and Ashkenazi immigration, colonial settlements,
emancipation, the influx of Jewish immigrants from Russia in
the 1880s, to the present.
B114: Eastern European Jewish History through
the Mirror of Literature *. The course will focus on the
major turning points and developments in the history of the
Jews in Eastern Europe (1772-present) through literature with
the aid of fiction and memoires.
C39: History of the Jews in Poland *
A social, political and cultural history of the Jews in the
Polish state from the Middle Ages to the present. Topics will
include Jewish politics in the medieval and modern Polish state,
Jewish-Gentile relations, and Jewish intellectual life.
C37: Habsburg Jewry * The course will
examine the main trends in the development of Austro-Hungarian
Jewry from the revolution of 1848 to the First World War,
with particular emphasis on the role of the Jews of Vienna in
the culture, society, economy and politics of the Empire.
C44: Enlightenment and Emancipation*.
The changing attitude of the non-Jewish environment to the attempts
by the Jews in France, Austria, Germany, Holland, England and
Russia to become citizens of their societies. This class is
open to students from various colleges of the University who
take Jewish History as an optional paper.
C25: European Jewry between Emancipation
and Reaction *. An examination of how the Jewish question
in Europe took on growing importance (symbolic, political) as
a result of the conflicts between legitimacy and nationalism;
the ancien regime and
the ideologies of national rights; property and expropriation.
The course will extend from the French Revolution until the
early 1880s (the crisis of liberalism in East and Central Europe).
B47: History of the Jews in Russia *.
The course will survey the social, economic, political and cultural
history of the Jews in Russia, from the rime of the first state,
Kievan Rus, to the fall of the imperial government in 1917.
C57: Literary Responses to the Holocaust
*
25 lectures, 1 written paper, 2 essays (20%). Literary works
that have the Holocaust as their primary theme will be read
in English translation. The authors and works chosen will illustrate
a variety of perspectives and approaches, using a variety of
literary forms prose and poetry, fiction, drama and autobiography.
B17: Inter-Faith Disputations (Survey)
*. Rabbinic polemics with pagan religion and philosophy;
the clash between Judaism and Christianity as reflected in the
New Testament and the writings of the early Church Fathers as
well as in rabbinic literature; medieval Jewish polemics with
Christianity, Karaism and Islam; the emergence of systematic
formulations of the Jewish faith as a response to these polemics;
the public disputations of Paris, Barcelona and Tortosa; Judaeo-Christian
polemics after the Reformation; the clash between Marrano Jews
and rabbinic orthodoxy in the 17th century; the Frankist
disputations of 1757 and 1759; the debate between Mendelssohn
and Lavater; post-Emancipation polemics.
C20: Inter-Faith Disputations (Texts)
(Dr. Chaim Hames). Selected readings from the Talmud and the
Midrashim, Sefer Nizzahon Yashan,
Nahmanides account of the disputation of Barcelona. Ibn Vergas
Shevet Yehudah,
Albos Sefer ha-Ikharim, Isaac Trokis Hizzuk
Emunah or other relevant
texts.
B18: Jewish Historiography (Survey).
Historical writings in the Bible and Rabbinic literature; Jewish
historiography in the Hellenistic period; medieval histories
and chronicles; historical, biographical, autobiographical and
hagiographical works of the Early Modern period; the beginnings
of modern historiography; 19th century Wissenschaft
des Judentums; current
historiographical schools; the historiography of the Holocaust.
B19: Jewish Historiography (Texts).
Selected readings in Hebrew from Josippon, Megillat Ahimaaz, 1st Crusade chronicles,
Sefer ha-Kabbalah, Shevet Yehudah, Meor Eynayim,
Yeven Mezulah, Hayey Yehudah or other relevant texts.
3TH YEAR
All
students of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies are
expected to spend their third academic year at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem.
Undergraduates from UCL are able to attend the Hebrew University
Ulpan, and benefit from the large range of courses in Jewish
Studies offered by the Hebrew University.
Students
with an interest in archaeology will be able to participate
in excavation work. All students will spend some time at the
Rothberg School for Overseas Students.
Students
who for personal reasons cannot attend the Hebrew University
will complete their full four year course at UCL.
Following
a special meeting on Tuesday 21 May 2002, the College has decided,
after much consideration, regretfully to cancel the Year Abroad
for its third year students at the Hebrew University for 2002/2003,
due to the security situation in Israel. For more details, see
the
following press release.
4TH YEAR
Most
2nd year courses may also be taken in the 4th year.
C17:
Aramaic Incantation Texts * (Mark Geller, email: m.geller@ucl.ac.uk). This
course will concentrate mainly on the large corpus of Aramaic
incantation bowls from Iraq. The texts will be read for their
contents, with relevant parallels to the Babylonian Talmud and
Near Eastern magic, as well as for the grammar and syntax of
Babylonian Aramaic. Some texts will be read from the autograph
copies, for purposes of palaeography. Reading knowledge of Aramaic
required.
C16:
Medicine in the Babylonian Talmud (Mark Geller, email:
m.geller@ucl.ac.uk). The
course will be based primarily upon references collected
in Preuss Biblisch-Talmudische Medezin (translated by Rosner)
to diseases and remedies in the Bible and Rabbinic sources,
thematically arranged, eg. gynaecology, opthalmology, general
physiology, fevers, injuries, etc. Texts will be examined with
manuscript variants, and analysed in the light of Babylonian
and Greek medicine. The student will require a knowledge of
both Hebrew and Aramaic.
B108:
Talmudic Magic * (Mark Geller, email: m.geller@ucl.ac.uk). No
details available.
C8:
Aramaic Papyri * About ten Aramaic papyri, studied with
reference to palaeography, philology and historical background.
C26
Dead Sea Scrolls *. This course will cover selected readings
from the sectarian literature of Qumran, such as the Manual
of Discipline and Temple Scroll, with attention to the historical
context of the Qumran community. Students must have a knowledge
of Biblical Hebrew.
C28:
Advanced Modern Hebrew Non-Fiction * (Ada Rapoport Albert,
email: uclhara@ucl.ac.uk). The
course is designed to train students in the reading of scholarly
literature currently published in Hebrew in Israel. This should
enable them to use Hebrew items on the bibliographies which
accompany most of the courses by the Department, items which,
in many cases, are essential and not available in English.
C90:
Advanced Modern Hebrew: Newspapers (Ada Rapoport Albert,
email: uclhara@ucl.ac.uk). This
course involves wide reading in current Israeli newspapers and
magazines. Feature articles and arts reviews will be studies,
along with news items. Attention will be paid not only to content
but also to the evolution of the language.
C21:
Jewish Pietists of Medieval Germany: Readings from Sefer Hasidim
* (Ada Rapoport Albert, email: uclhara@ucl.ac.uk). No details
available.
C64:
Early Jewish Mystical Texts (D. Freedman,
email:
uclhdhf@ucl.ac.uk). The
Hasidey Ashkenaz movement, with selected readings from Sefer
Hasidin (ed. J. Wistinetzki, 1924)
C67:
Hasidic Prayer * No details available.
B89:
Mystical Aspects of Judaism and Islam * No details available.
C58:
Rabbinic Eschatology *. The concept of the Messiah and the
end-time will be studied in Hebrew rabbinic texts ranging from
the Mishnah to the present century. The course will also deal
with specific messianic movements over this time-range, as well
as the Jewish response to Christian messianic claims.
C19:
Introduction to the Kabbalah Readings from the Zohar *.
Selected readings in Aramaic from the Zohar (ed. R. Margalioth)
with a study of their contents.
C42:
Medieval Jewish Pietists under Islam *. The course will
be built around texts written by medieval Jewish mystics and
pietists who lived in Islamic countries (especially Egypt and
Spain). The texts will be examined with reference to the Islamic
pietistic and mystical tradition which is in some degree reflected
in the Jewish texts.
B55:
The Ideal of Martyrdom in Jewish Tradition *. This course
will comprise lectures on the history of mesirat nefesh for kiddush ha-shem
(the martyrological ideal), and study of illustrative texts.
The course will start with martyrology in Midrash, Talmud and
the liturgy; it will continue with the events associated with
the First Crusade of 1096, and the martyrological ethos expressed
by medieval Franco-German pietists (Hasidey Ashkenaz).
The spiritulization of this theme will be examined (as described
by Katz and Shohet), and the way that in later Hasidism, the
martyrological ideal played a significant role in the quest
to transmit spiritual values to ordinary people. Texts studied
will include Midrash, Talmud, Piyyut, Maimonides, R. Shneur
Zalmans Likkutey Amarim, the Hanhagot of R. Elimelech of Lyzhansk, and
selections from R. Dov Bers Shaarey Teshuvah
and Shaarey Orah.
C27:
Final Year Dissertation . Study of an approved topic, based
on independent research, presented in no less than 7,500 and
no more than 10,000 words (including bibliography and notes).
Consult your tutor.
POSTGRADUATE
MA
Hebrew and Jewish Studies
MA
Modern Israeli Studies
MA
Holocaust Studies
Graduate
Seminar: Introduction to Holocaust Studies (Michael Berkowitz,
email: m.berkowitz@ucl.ac.uk).
The class will examine the Holocaust in historical context.
Issues to be explored will include the concept of a holocaust,
debates over the uniqueness of the Jewish Holocaust and major
issues in Holocaust historiography.
Graduate
Seminar: Modern Israeli Studies (Neill Lochery, email:
n.lochery@ucl.ac.uk).
The class will examine the history, politics and culture of
the modern State of Israel. Major historiographical questions
and contemporary research will be explored. Students will undertake
specific research projects in their preferred areas of specialisation.
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University
of Cambridge
Websites: www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/Judaism/
(Faculty
of Divinity)
West
Road, Cambridge, CB3 9BS, United Kingdom.
Tel 01223 763017, Fax 01223 763018.
and
www.oriental.cam.ac.uk/hebrew1.html
(Faculty of Oriental Studies: Hebrew & Aramaic)
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA.
Tel 01223 335106, Fax 01223 335110.
UNDERGRADUATE:
Elementary
Hebrew (Andrew Macintosh, email: AAM1003@cus.cam.ac.uk)
World Religions in Comparative Perspective (Nicholas de Lange,
email: NRML1@cam.ac.uk)
The Literature, History and Theology of the Exilic Age (Katharine
Dell, email: KJD24@cam.ac.uk;
Graham Davies, email: GID10@cam.ac.uk)
Introduction to Modern Judaism (Nicholas de Lange, email: NRML1@cam.ac.uk;
Miri Freud-Kandel, email: MJF1004@cam.ac.uk)
Judaism in the Greek and Roman World (William Horbury, email:
WH10000@cam.ac.uk)
Jewish and Christian Responses to the Holocaust (Nicholas de
Lange, email: NRML1@cam.ac.uk;
M.M. Tolstoy, email: MMT13@cam.ac.uk)
Impact of the Holocaust on Contemporary Israeli Literature (Risa
Domb, email: RD10001@cam.ac.uk)
The Holy Land (Nicholas de Lange, email: NRML1@cam.ac.uk)
Modern Judaism (Nicholas de Lange, email: NRML1@cam.ac.uk)
Israelite history and literature (RP Gordon, email: RPG1000@cam.ac.uk)
Mishnaic and medieval Hebrew texts
Twentieth century prose and poetry (Risa
Domb, email: RD10001@cam.ac.uk)
Aramaic texts (RP
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