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JEWISH
STUDIES
IN THE
UK 2003-04
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See
Survey 2007-08
Jewish
Studies Institutions in the survey include:
Belfast:
Dept of German Studies, Queen's University
Belfast
Brighton: Centre
for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex
Cambridge:
Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations
at Cambridge
Cambridge: University of Cambridge
Lampeter: Dept of Theology, University
of Wales
Leeds: Centre for Jewish Studies, University
of Leeds
Leicester: Dept of History, University
of Leicester
London: Centre for Jewish Studies,
SOAS
London: Dept of Hebrew & Jewish
Studies, University College London
London: Dept of Theology & Religious
Studies, King's College London
London: Leo Baeck College - Centre
for Jewish Education
Manchester: Centre for Jewish Studies,
University of Manchester
Oxford: Oxford Centre for Hebrew &
Jewish Studies
Oxford: University of Oxford
Southampton: Parkes Institute, University
of Southampton
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 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 2003. 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.
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Department
of German Studies, Queen's University Belfast
Website: www.qub.ac.uk/lla/ger/index.htm
German Studies, School of Languages, Literatures and Arts, The
Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN.
Tel 028-90335363.
UNDERGRADUATE
110GER310 Modern
Jewish Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (Susanne Marten-Finnis,
email: s.mfinnis@qub.ac.uk)
In this option module students will look into the history of
the interrelationship between Jews and their European host peoples,
both in the German speaking lands and the countries of Central
Europe. Issues of Jewish identity and linguistic island situations,
but also forms of anti-Jewish prejudice, concepts of assimilation,
acculturation and integration will be studied through a wide
range of material such as contemporary feuilleton and literary
texts, autobiographies, documentary film and exhibition material.
POSTGRADUATE
MA in German-Jewish Studies
This postgraduate degree programme leading to a Master of Arts
in German-Jewish Studies extends the traditional curriculum
of German Studies. The course aims to improve confidence in
using the German language and to improve understanding of the
German-Jewish experience before the Shoah. The MA in German-Jewish
Studies is designed to enable students to deepen their knowledge
of one or more specialist areas. As such it is an excellent
point of departure for those students considering doctoral study,
as well as a valuable qualification for in-service teachers
and other professionals seeking to broaden their experience
in the subject.
Course Structure and
Assessment
The MA is modular in structure, and students will be expected
to complete six modules: four taught modules and a dissertation
on an approved topic, which is the equivalent of two modules.
The taught modules are studied during the semesters, and assessed
through coursework in January and June. Candidates are required
to complete written work in both English and German.
The modules on offer
are as follows:
110GER700 Research Methods (Compulsory for all students)
(Matthias Uecker, email: m.uecker@qub.ac.uk):
This module is mandatory for all students who are enrolled for
an MA programme in French, German or Hispanic Studies. It is
designed as an introduction to research methods and will cover
a range of practical, methodological and theoretical issues
which are the basis for any research project that students might
undertake at postgraduate level. The module has three main sections:
1. Resources and Presentation (bibliographies, critical style,
etc), 2. Critical Theory, 3. Principles of text-editing
together with any THREE
from the following
210GER702 German
Exile Literature (Susanne Marten-Finnis, email: s.mfinnis@qub.ac.uk):
A selection of poetry, drama, and prose fiction produced by
German and Austrian writers (Stefan Zweig; Friedrich Wolf, Bertholt
Brecht, Franz Werfel) who opposed the Nazi Regime from a place
of refuge outside Germany. Emphasis is placed on the depiction
of German and Austrian homelands, and of the National Socialist
state.
210GER714 Anti-Jewish
Polemic (Susanne Marten-Finnis, email: s.mfinnis@qub.ac.uk)
Introduction into the concept of language as ideology; language
and power; origins and elements of totalitarianism; study of
the predominance magic words can gain over semantic words in
order to produce certain effects, and to stir up emotions; the
power of pictures; Klemperer's notes on Nazi language; anti-intellectualism
and ideology in Goebbels' language of propaganda; late 19th
century antisemitism.
210GER715 Jews in
Weimar Germany (Susanne Marten-Finnis, email: s.mfinnis@qub.ac.uk)
Migration movements following the collapse of the three European
Empires after World War 1; East European Jewish writers and
artists in Weimar Germany; students are introduced to the study
of Jewish writing and publishing in early 1920s Berlin; analysis
of literary, journalistic, and translation work.
110GER717 The Modern
Jewish Press (Susanne Marten-Finnis, email: s.mfinnis@qub.ac.uk)
Students study the Jewish press in Central and Eastern Europe
during the period 1840-1940: the Jewish press as a historical
source, as a mirror and producer of social reality; the role
of the Jewish press in the rise of secular Jewish identity;
the birth of modern Jewish ideologies Zionism and Bundism, the
former looking for a Jewish future in Palestine, the latter
for a Jewish renaissance in Central Europe; the discursive construction
of national identity.
110GER716 The Berlin
Haskalah (Susanne Marten-Finnis, email: s.mfinnis@qub.ac.uk)
Jewish society in Old Regime Berlin; Jewish enlightenment taken
root in Berlin in the eighteenth century; the appearance of
Moses Mendelssohn: admission into society ("bürgerliche
Aufnahme") versus toleration (The Edict of Tolerance issued
by Joseph II); Jewish emancipation as a historic necessity for
the modern state.
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Centre
for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex
Website: www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/cgjs/index.html
Centre for German-Jewish Studies
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN
Tel. Tel: 01273 678771 Fax. 0208 3814721
POSTGRADUATE:
MA Modern
European Jewish History, Culture and Thought
Although
the MA will be conducted under the auspices of the University
of Sussex,
all courses will be held in central London on the premises of
the Leo
Baeck Institute/Wiener Library.
Modern
European Jewish History and Culture (Dr Uffa Jensen,
email: U.Jensen@sussex.ac.uk)
Compulsory
course covering the period from the early Enlightenment leading
up to the destruction
of Jewish life in Europe during the Holocaust, the course will
focus on
the delicate political and cultural interaction between Gentile
and Jewish
societies, enabling students to gain a deeper understanding
of the fundamental
changes in Jewish life during the period. Studying the
relationship
between Jewish and non-Jewish history will help students
examine
some of the most important internal dynamics of general European
history,
as well as how European Jews constructed, asserted and coped
with 'difference'.
Other areas of analysis will include the importance of the
Enlightenment,
the legal and political processes of emancipation, the impact
of the Great
War on European Jewish history, the concept of Jewish
renaissance
and renewal and Zionist movements in the twentieth century.
Jews,
Power, and Intellectual History (Dr Raphael Gross,
email: r.gross@sussex.ac.uk)
The programme
will explore Jewish culture and history through examination
of the
development of Jewish historiography, religion and the concept
of Bildung.
Special emphasis will be placed on German-Jewish thought during
the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries as represented by writers such as Leopld
Zunz, Hermann
Cohen, Siegmund Freud, Franz Rosenzweig, Achad Ha'am, Walter
Benjamin,
Leo Baeck, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas.
Jews
in the Sciences and the Humanities (Dr Ute Deichmann,
email: deichmann@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de,
and Dr Ulrich Charpa, email: u.charpa@gmx.de)
Jewish scholars
in the sciences and humanities became increasingly visible
starting
in the nineteenth century. Study of their experiences poses
questions
concerning the nature of scientific and academic research and
their relationship
to Jewish religious traditions. The programme will provide
a broad survey of this topic, focussing on issues including
science in
the Talmud; Medieval and early modern Jewish attitudes towards
science; legal
emancipation in nineteenth-century Germany and the beginning
of Jewish participation
in academia; the relationship between Jewish scientists and
scholars
and national politics; the expulsion of Jews from German academia;
the impact
of German Jews on science and scholarship in exile.
Modern
European Jewish Literature (Dr Lisa Silverman, email:
lisa.silverman@yale.edu)
From Sholem
Aleichem to Else Lasker-Schüler, Heinreich Heine to Marcel
Proust,
the works of Jewish authors have shaped the way we consider
the experiences
of Jews in modern Europe. Approaching Jewish history from the
perspective
of literary analysis, the programme will survey novels, poetry
and drama
written by Jews in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, France,
England
and Russia (in English translation). Using both primary sources
and secondary
theoretical texts, it will consider how literature both reflected
and shaped
modern European Jewish life. Special attention will be paid
to issues
of Jewish writers among national European cultures, focussing
on identity,
gender and difference.
Anti-Semitism
and the Holocaust (Ben Barkow, email: benbarkow@wienerlibrary.co.uk)
Modern European
Jewish history has been profoundly affected by anti-Judaism
and anti-Semitism
and the study of anti-Semitism is crucial for our understanding
of the wider social and cultural context of Jewish history in
Modern Europe. The programme will trace the development of anti-Semitism
in Europe,
through its historical transformation under the impact of
secularisation,
the rise of nationalism, racial theories and globalisation.
It will
survey the development of historical writing on both anti-Semitism
and the
Holocaust, and will address forms of secular and religious
anti-Semitism
since the Holocaust.
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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)
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, 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)
Independent
learning modules are also available in selected topics in Jewish-Christian
Relations.
Contact
in the first instance Melanie Wright, email: mjw48@cam.ac.uk,
or for Distance learning courses in Jewish-Christian Relations
contact Lucia Faltin, email: l.faltin@cjcr.cam.ac.uk
MPhil:
Jewish-Christian Relations
PhD: Jewish-Christian Relations
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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)
Intermediate
Hebrew (Andrew Macintosh, email: AAM1003@cus.cam.ac.uk;
Katharine Dell, email: KJD24@cam.ac.uk)
Advanced Hebrew (Andrew Macintosh, email: AAM1003@cus.cam.ac.uk;
Robert Gordon, email: RPG1000@cam.ac.uk;
William Horbury, email: WH10000@cam.ac.uk)
World
Religions in Comparative Perspective (Nicholas de
Lange, email: NRML1@cam.ac.uk):
the Jewish part of this course looks at the themes of law and
creation.
The
Literature, History and Theology of the Exilic Age
(Katharine Dell, email: KJD24@cam.ac.uk;
Graham Davies, email: GID10@cam.ac.uk):
The exilic age has long been regarded in scholarship as a watershed
for the faith of Israel, with important theological understandings
formulated in this period. This course seeks to give a thorough
understanding of the literature, history and theology of the
period leading up to the Exile, of the Exile itself and of the
repercussions that followed it.
Judaism
in the Greek and Roman Periods (William Horbury,
email: WH10000@cam.ac.uk):
This course aims to introduce the history, literature and religion
of the Jews in the Greek and Roman periods, up to and including
the war of Bar-Kokhba in the years 132-5.
Jewish and Christian
Responses to the Holocaust (Nicholas de Lange, email: NRML1@cam.ac.uk;
M.M. Tolstoy, email: MMT13@cam.ac.uk):
The objective is to engage the students in a manner that is
academically rigorous while enabling them to respond with sensitivity
and compassion to the horrendous crimes perpetrated in the heart
of Europe. In the Lent term, lecturers from outside the University
contribute fully to the course, including a witness account
from an Auschwitz survivor. Students will have the opportunity
to see documentaries and feature films related to the Holocaust.
Life, Thought and
Worship in Modern Judaism (Nicholas de Lange, email: NRML1@cam.ac.uk;
Miri Freud-Kandel, email: MJF1004@cam.ac.uk):
This course introduces students to contemporary Judaism and
gives them an insight into the development of Modem Judaism
by looking at the life and outlook of the Jewish communities
both in Britain and worldwide. It will demonstrate how Judaism
relates to surrounding cultures and especially how it has responded
to the challenges of modernity.
Poets, Prophets, Storytellers
and Sages (Graham Davies, email: GID10@cam.ac.uk;
Katharine Dell, email: KJD24@cam.ac.uk;
Janet Tollington, email: JET40@cam.ac.uk):
This course seeks to explore the diversity of literature that
makes up the Old Testament and to assess the different social
and theological contexts in which it arose. It involves study
of texts of different genres with an interest in their social
context and theological content, interest in scholarly methods
and viewpoints and their diversity, evaluation of historical
claims with the use of archaeological and ancient Near Eastern
material.
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):
This topic includes the concept of holiness in Judaism and whether
it can properly be applied to territory; attitudes to the Land
of Israel and the city of Jerusalem in classical Jewish sources;
Reform and Orthodox attitudes to the Land and how they have
changed during the 19th and 20th centuries; the history and
ideologies of Zionism; the Jewish character of the 'Jewish State';
and finally a comparative element: do Jews, Christians and Muslims
share a common understanding of the sanctity of Jerusalem?
Halakhah (Nicholas
de Lange, email: NRML1@cam.ac.uk):
This topic studies the place of halakhah (law) in modern Judaism.
It begins by exploring the history of the codification of the
laws, and how their implementation has been influenced by the
realities of Jewish life under non-Jewish rule. It then examines
the different ways that the various religious denominations
(such as Reform and Orthodox Judaism) have defined the place
of halakhah in Judaism, and how they have dealt with specific
questions. There will be a focus on important contemporary issues
such as bio-medical, sexual and business ethics, and gender
issues.
Book of Exodus
(Graham Davies, email: GID10@cam.ac.uk):
The book of Exodus is one of the key books of the Old Testament.
The story that it tells is one of the main elements in ancient
Israel's origin traditions and it was of central importance
for the definition of Old Testament belief in God and his relationship
to his people and their response to him. The name of God, his
deliverance of his people from slavery, the covenant at Sinai,
the Ten Commandments and principles of worship are all dealt
with here. Modern study of Exodus has used all of the standard
exegetical methods and many comparisons have been made with
non-biblical texts from the ancient Near East. The Exodus theme
is also prominent in other parts of the Old Testament and in
the post-biblical period the text has been drawn upon and elaborated
in many different ways by both Jews and Christians up to the
present day.
Judaism and Hellenism
(William Horbury, email: WH10000@cam.ac.uk):
This course focuses on Hebraic and Hellenic tradition in Judaism
from the time of the later Old Testament books onwards. The
period concerned runs from Alexander the Great to the aftermath
of the Bar Kokhba uprising against Rome. It begins with the
translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, includes developments
between the Old Testament and the New, and ends with the composition
of the Mishnah in Hebrew.
Hebrew in Relation
to Yiddish: The Survival of Yiddish Beneath Israeli (Ghil`ad
Zuckermann, www.zuckermann.org)
This course studies the relationship between Yiddish, Hebrew
and Israeli (a.k.a. 'Modern Hebrew'). According to convention,
Yiddish, the language spoken by Ashkenazic Jews, started off
as a form of Middle High German, fused with an inherited Hebrew
and Aramaic component and some elements from Old Italian and
Old French. When Jews migrated from the German territories to
Eastern Europe (due to the Crusades, as well as the Black Death
in 1348-9), Yiddish underwent Slavonization. The course discusses
how Hebrew influenced Yiddish but focuses on how Yiddish shaped
Israeli, the language which emerged in Eretz Yisrael at the
beginning of the twentieth century.
Colloquial Israeli
in Hebrew Literary Texts (Ghil`ad Zuckermann, www.zuckermann.org)
This course studies the uses of Colloquial Israeli both at the
lexical and phrasal level (by IDF soldiers and the general population)
and at the literary level (by modern Israeli writers). Students
learn to distinguish between colloquial speech and slang and
to appreciate colloquialisms as artistic creations. Ironically,
the formation of Israeli colloquial concoctions relies on some
of the same techniques as those employed by puristic, scholarly
institutions such as the Academy of the Hebrew Language; in
other words, cr‚ation populaire is structurally similar
to cr‚ation savante. Students are expected to be able to
detect colloquial Israeli in literary texts, as well as to analyse
the role played by colloquial Israeli in some recent texts by
authors such as Etgar Keret, Sayed Qashu, Netiva Ben-Yehuda
and Orli Kastel-Blum. Key critical issues for discussion include
language and authenticity, target audience and reception and
linguistic representation of national identity.
Israelite history
and literature (RP Gordon, email: RPG1000@cam.ac.uk)
Twentieth century prose and poetry (Risa Domb, email:
RD10001@cam.ac.uk)
Aramaic texts (RP Gordon, email: RPG1000@cam.ac.uk;
EC Hunter, email: ECDH1@cam.ac.uk;
GA Khan, email: GK101@cam.ac.uk)
Biblical and Dead Sea texts (RP Gordon, email: RPG1000@cam.ac.uk)
Post-biblical Jewish texts (Nicholas de Lange, email:
NRML1@cam.ac.uk; S. C.
Reif, email: SCR3@cam.ac.uk)
Modern Hebrew Language (R Williams, email: RW212@cam.ac.uk)
Modern Hebrew poetry and prose (Risa Domb, email: RD10001@cam.ac.uk)
Modern Aramaic (GA Khan, email: GK101@cam.ac.uk)
Ugaritic mythological literature (RP Gordon, email:
RPG1000@cam.ac.uk; GA
Khan, email: GK101@cam.ac.uk)
History of the Hebrew language (GA Khan, email: GK101@cam.ac.uk)
The Cairo Genizah (GA Khan, email: GK101@cam.ac.uk;
S. C. Reif, email: SCR3@cam.ac.uk)
Hebrew short story and drama in the 20th century (Risa
Domb, email: RD10001@cam.ac.uk)
POSTGRADUATE: (Faculty
of Oriental Studies and Faculty of Divinity)
MPhil
Old Testament Studies (Faculty of Divinity)
MPhil World Religious Traditions, including Judaism (Faculty
of Divinity)
MPhil Biblical Studies (Faculty of Divinity)
MPhil Hellenistic Judaism (Faculty of Divinity)
MPhil Modern Judaism (Faculty of Divinity)
MPhil Hebrew and Aramaic Studies (Faculty of Oriental Studies)
MPhil
Classical and Modern Aramaic Languages (Faculty of Oriental
Studies)
MPhil
Classical Hebrew Studies (Faculty of Oriental Studies)
MPhil Rabbinical and Medieval Hebrew Studies (Faculty of Oriental
Studies)
MPhil Modern Hebrew Studies (Faculty of Oriental Studies)
PhD Biblical & Jewish
Studies (Faculty of Divinity)
PhD Jewish Studies related (Faculty of Oriental Studies)
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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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Centre
for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds
Website: www.leeds.ac.uk/fine_art/cejs/
Dept of Fine Arts, University of Leeds,
Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
UNDERGRADUATE:
BA
Jewish Civilisation
Reading Jewish Cultures
(Eva Frojmovic, email: e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk)
Intensive Modern Hebrew Level 1
(Michele Fromm, email: m.fromm@leeds.ac.uk)
Intensive Modern Hebrew Level 2
(Michele Fromm, email: m.fromm@leeds.ac.uk)
Jews and Other Differences
(Eva Frojmovic, email: e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk)
Rembrandt and the Bible
(Valerie Mainz, email: v.s.mainz@leeds.ac.uk)
Unfinished Business: Trauma, Cultural Memory and the
Holcoaust
(Griselda Pollock, email: g.f.s.pollock@leeds.ac.uk)
Jewish Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe (Eva Frojmovic,
email: e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk)
Jews into Frenchmen? Identity, Nations and the French Revolution
(Valerie Mainz, email: v.s.mainz@leeds.ac.uk)
MA
Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Readings
in Jewish Studies (Eva Frojmovic, email: e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk)
Modernity and the Jews (Eva Frojmovic, email: e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk)
Jews into Frenchmen? Identity, Nations and the French Revolution
(Valerie Mainz, email: v.s.mainz@leeds.ac.uk)
Unfinished Business: Trauma, Cultural Memory and the Holcoaust
(Griselda Pollock, email: g.f.s.pollock@leeds.ac.uk)
Society, Sign, Text and Subject (Fred
Orton, email: l.f.orton@leeds.ac.uk)
Jewish Studies Dissertation (Eva Frojmovic, email: e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk)
PhD/MPhil
(Jewish Studies related)
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University
of Leicester
Website: www.le.ac.uk/hi/
Department of History, University of Leicester,
University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom. Tel 0116
252 2802, Fax 0116 252 3986.
UNDERGRADUATE:
Modern
Jewish History, 1789-1939 (Claudia Prestel, email:
cp59@leicester.ac.uk)
The Holocaust: Genocide in Europe (Claudia Prestel,
email: cp59@leicester.ac.uk)
Israel/Palestine: The Story of a Land, 1917 to the Present
(Claudia Prestel, email: cp59@leicester.ac.uk)
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Centre
for Jewish Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Website: www.soas.ac.uk/Centres/JewishStudies/
Department of the Languages and Cultures
of the Near and Middle East, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell
Square, London, WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom. Fax 020 7898 4359.
UNDERGRADUATE:
BA Hebrew
and Israeli Studies
BA Jewish Studies
BA Hebrew and [other subject areas e.g. Arabi, Music]
Advanced
Modern Hebrew
Beginners Hebrew
Lower Intermediate Hebrew
Introduction to Israeli Culture
(Dalia Manor, email: dm23@soas.ac.uk)
Jewish Art from Antiquity to the Modern Age
(Dalia Manor, email: dm23@soas.ac.uk)
Modern Hebrew Poetry (Tudor
Parfitt, email: tp@soas.ac.uk)
History of Zionism (Colin
Shindler, email: cs52@soas.ac.uk)
Israeli
History and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
(Colin Shindler, email: cs52@soas.ac.uk)
Sacred and Secular Musics in Ancient and Modern Israel
(Alex Knapp, email: ak42@soas.ac.uk)
Jewish Music (Alexander Knapp,
email: ak42@soas.ac.uk)
Jews
in Africa and Asia (Tudor
Parfitt, email: tp@soas.ac.uk)
POSTGRADUATE:
MA in
Hebrew and Jewish Studies
MA in Israeli and Jewish Diaspora Studies
MA in Sephardi Studies
PhD/MPhil
(Jewish Studies related)
The following courses
are on offer this year at SOAS, for ex-London School of Jewish
Studies students who need to complete their BA Jewish Studies
degrees.
UNDERGRADUATE:
Jewish Law in the
Modern World (Sacha Stern, email: ss98@soas.ac.uk)
Judaism and the Origins of Christianity (Sacha Stern,
email: ss98@soas.ac.uk)
Introduction to Jewish Education (Clive Lawton, email:
clive@calawton.freeserve.co.uk)
Advanced Studies in Jewish Education (Clive Lawton, email:
clive@calawton.freeserve.co.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 the 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 the First Millenium
CE (Helenann
Hartley, email: helenann.francis@worcester.oxford.ac.uk).
The First and Second Revolt against the Romans; the development
of rabbinic literature in Palestine and Babylon; the use of
archaeological evidence; the Jews under Roman rule and 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
(John Klier,
email: j.klier@ucl.ac.uk).
Enlightenment, Emancipation, Reform, nationalism and secularism;
Antisemitism; Zionism.
B12: Introduction
to Classical Hebrew (Fiona Blumfield).
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.
It is relatively intensive
and intended for absolute beginners. The course is based
on the text book: Kelley, Page. Biblical Hebrew, An Introductory
Grammar (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1992); 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 acquired some command of either Biblical
or Modern Hebrew may be advised to take the 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 2003/2004. 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 * This course
may be taken as a sequel to course B12. Further in-depth study
of the grammar and syntax of Classical Hebrew. 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. Grammar, written
and oral practice. 100 hours, 1 year.
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.
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.
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.
Grammar, written and oral practice. Pre-requisite: B78, year
abroad, or B79.
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.
C71: Introduction
to Sumerian Language (Mark Geller,
email: m.geller@ucl.ac.uk)
Introduction to Sumerian, with text readings.
C98 :
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, email: gillmorris.greenberg@btinternet.com).
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, email: gillmorris.greenberg@btinternet.com).
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).
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 (Coralie Gutridge, email: uclhcag@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 * . 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 of 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 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 in Hebrew.
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 in Hebrew.
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 (John Klier, email: j.klier@ucl.ac.uk).
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 constructed
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.
C87:
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.f.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.f.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.f.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 * . 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.f.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 *. 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 *. 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 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). 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 * . 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 * (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.
B124:
Metropolitan Life: Jews and the City (Eli Lederhendler,
email: e_lederhender@hotmail.com)
This course is intended to engage the students in a comparative
analysis of the changes that urbanism entailed for Jewish immigrants
coming to a city such as New York; the nature of Jewish interaction
with the city and with other groups in the city; and the implications
for Jewish group life and Jewish/non-Jewish social relations
of Jewish migration to suburbs outside the city.
C32:
Elementary Yiddish (Helen Beer, email: h.beer@ucl.ac.uk)
A year-long (two term) class for students with no prior knowledge
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.
B99:
Upper Intermediate Yiddish (Helen Beer, email: h.beer@ucl.ac.uk).
More advanced Yiddish language study which continues on from
C36 Intermediate Yiddish. The course will include readings from
literature as well as newspaper and journal articles.
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 standard
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).
Pre-requisite is to have completed equivalent of Elementary
Yiddish. This course introduces students to a variety of Yiddish
folk culture genres which include folksongs; folktales; proverbs
and sayings, riddles and jokes. The study of Yiddish folklore
and its prominent folklorists and ethnographers will be examined,
with specific reference to the Folklore Section of the YIVO
and the work of Sh. Anski's Ethnographic Expedition.
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). 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, both fiction and memoirs.
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.
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 cover the period from the French Revolution
to the early 1880s (the crisis of liberalism in East and Central
Europe).
B47:
History of the Jews in Russia (John Klier, email: j.klier@ucl.ac.uk).
The course will survey the social, economic, political and cultural
history of the Jews in Russia, from the rise of the first Russian
state, Kievan Rus’, to the fall of the imperial government in
1917.
C57:
Literary Responses to the Holocaust *. 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) * (Ada Rapoport-Albert,
email: uclhara@ucl.ac.uk).
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) * (Ada Rapoport-Albert,
email: uclhara@ucl.ac.uk).
Selected readings from the Talmud and the Midrashim, Sefer Nizzahon
Yashan, Nahmanides’ account of the disputation of Barcelona.
Ibn Verga’s Shevet Yehudah, Albo’s Sefer ha-Ikharim, Isaac Troki’s
Hizzuk Emunah or other relevant texts.
B18:
Jewish Historiography (Survey) * (Ada Rapoport-Albert,
email: uclhara@ucl.ac.uk).
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) * (Ada Rapoport-Albert,
email: uclhara@ucl.ac.uk).
Selected readings in Hebrew from Josippon, Megillat Ahima’az,
1st Crusade chronicles, Sefer ha-Kabbalah, Shevet Yehudah, Me’or
Eynayim, Yeven Mezulah, Hayey Yehudah or other relevant texts.
C79:
Selected Topics in Contemporary Israeli Fiction (Tsila
Ratner, email: t.ratner@ucl.ac.uk).
The course will examine a selection of topics in Israeli fiction
since the mid 70s. It will focus on the tension between collective
images and individual identities. It will discuss literary work
in the context of social and cultural changes in Israeli society.
Hebrew literary texts will be read alongside translations into
English.
B82:
A Survey of Modern Hebrew Prose (Tsila Ratner, email:
t.ratner@ucl.ac.uk).
Social and political themes in Israeli literature from the 1930s
to the 1980s.
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 willbe enrolled in 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.
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 Medizin (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. Knowledge of both Hebrew and Aramaic is
required.
B108:
Talmudic Magic * (Mark Geller, email: m.geller@ucl.ac.uk).
Readings in extracts from the Babylonian Talmud of passages
dealing with magic and incantantions.
C8:
Aramaic Papyri * About ten Aramaic papyri, studied
with reference to palaeography, philology and historical background.
C26
Dead Sea Scrolls *. 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. Knowledge of Biblical Hebrew is required.
C91:
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 taught 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. News items, feature articles and arts reviews
will be studied and translated to and from Hebrew.
C21:
Jewish Pietists of Medieval Germany: Readings from
Sefer Hasidim * (Ada Rapoport Albert, email: uclhara@ucl.ac.uk).
Selected readings in Hebrew from Sefer Hasidim (ed. Wistinetzki-Friemann).
C64:
Early Jewish Mystical Texts * . Selected Hebrew and
Aramaic sources for early Jewish mysticism.
B89:
Mystical Aspects of Judaism and Islam * Central
themes, ideas and persons pertaining to the mystical traditions
of Judaism and Islam, studied on the basis of relevant works
from both traditions in English translation.
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
(Ada Rapoport-Albert, email: uclhara@ucl.ac.uk).
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 | |