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JEWISH
STUDIES
IN THE
UK 2004-05
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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 2004. Any institution wishing to
add, update or correct information relating to its
courses should email info@BAJSBulletin.org.
Details
of 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: ute.deichmann@uni-koeln.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
and Edward Kessler, email: edk21@cus.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 (Gwynneth
Bodger)
Jews and Christians, Literature and Film (Naomi
Hetherington, email: neh29@cam.ac.uk)
Independent
learning modules are also available in selected topics in Jewish-Christian
Relations.
Contact
in the first instance Naomi
Hetherington, email: neh29@cam.ac.uk,
or for Distance learning courses in Jewish-Christian Relations
contact Lucia Faltin, email: l.faltin@cjcr.cam.ac.uk
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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 (Tim Winter,
email: tjw31@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 (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 (Co-ordinator Tim Winter,
email: tjw31@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
(George Wilkes, email: grw1000@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
(Michael Harris, email: rabbi.michael@talk21.com):
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.
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 (WJ van Bekkum, email: w.j.van.bekkum@let.rug.nl
and Jeremy Schonfield, email: jeremy.schonfield@blueyonder.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.
NOT
BEING TAUGHT 2004-05
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)
Jews in Africa and Asia (Tudor Parfitt, email: tp@soas.ac.uk)
History of Zionism (Colin
Shindler, email: cs52@soas.ac.uk)
Israeli
History and the Israeli-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)
POSTGRADUATE:
MA in
Israeli and Jewish Diaspora 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:
Modern Approaches
to Talmud (Sacha Stern, email: ss98@soas.ac.uk)
Judaism and the Origins of Christianity (Sacha Stern,
email: ss98@soas.ac.uk)
Community Studies (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 76797171.
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
(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 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 2004/2005. 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 (Fiona Blumfield) 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
and Julie Adar, email: julieadar@yahoo.co.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
and Julie Adar, email: julieadar@yahoo.co.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.
XX: Intermediate
Sumerian (Mark Geller, email: m.geller@ucl.ac.uk).
Further readings of Sumerian texts from the original cuneiform.
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: jewish.studies@ucl.ac.uk).
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; texts from the period of the
Church Fathers, and some secular texts.
C97: Intermediate
Syriac (Gillian Greenberg, email: jewish.studies@ucl.ac.uk).
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. The importance of the study of different manuscripts in
transmission history is also studied.
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 * 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.
B14: Midrash
(Willem Smelik, email: willem.smelik@ucl.ac.uk).
An introduction to the methodology of Jewish scriptural exegesis
as followed in rabbinical circles in late antiquity, based on
treatment of the creation narrative assembled in the early
chapters of Genesis Rabbah. Comparison with the approaches of
other systems - both pagan and Christian - to problems in
cosmology, metaphysics and ethics.
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.
XX: From
Sepharad to the Sephardic Diaspora (Hilary Pomeroy, email: Hilarypomeroy@aol.com).
The development of Jewish communities from the early Middle Ages
in Spain to the post-Expulsion period.
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 ofthe 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.
B107: Jews of
English-Speaking Lands (Michael Berkowitz, email: m.berkowitz@ucl.ac.uk).
An analysis of the development of Engish speaking English
speaking Jewish communities from the 19th Century to
the present, particularly in North America, the UK, Australia,
South Africa and Mandate Palestine.
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.
XX: Jewish
Multicultural and Multiculturalism and the Jews (Sander
Gilman, email: jewish.studies@ucl.ac.uk).
To examine the representation of the figure of the Jew in
contemporary multicultural literature with the intend of
providing students with a model for exploring the complexities
of identity representation in fiction.
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 themes 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).
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.
B121: Women in
Jewish Tradition (John Klier/Ada Rapoport-Albert/Tsila
Ratner/Mark Geller) A review of the position of women in the
Jewish tradition from ancient Biblical through Classical,
Rabbinic, medieval and modern Judaism.
B124: Metropolitan
Life: Jews and the City * 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.
XX: The Short
Story and Novella in Yiddish (Helen Beer, email: h.beer@ucl.ac.uk).
Material will be studied from its content and style within a
social, cultural and literary context.
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 (Willem Smelik, email: willem.smelik@ucl.ac.uk).
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
(John Klier, email: j.klier@ucl.ac.uk).
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: Nation and Narration (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.
B112: Feminist
Issues in Israeli Women’s Writing (Tsila Ratner, email: t.ratner@ucl.ac.uk).
A survey of feminist thinking in Hebrew literature. The
course will study the development of feminist concepts and their
manifestations in women’s writing in Israel since the 70s. It
will compare these expressions with feminist writing in English
and American literature. The Hebrew texts will be followed by
their translations into English.
B125: Representations
of Trauma: Holocaust Writing (Tsila Ratner, email: t.ratner@ucl.ac.uk;
and other lecturers from the HJS, Dutch, German and French
Departments). The course will examine, in English translation,
selected literary texts on the Holocaust from a variety of
languages and cultures.
XX: Family
Politics in Israeli Fiction (Tsila Ratner, email: t.ratner@ucl.ac.uk).
This course will look at the representations of the family in
Israeli literature. It will discuss the following issues: The
way ideologies shape family structures; The way nation building
narratives use the family; Generations gap; The prevalence of
children’s narratives in Israeli literature; The way women
writers subvert familial narratives; Representations of
parenthood and their perceptions by their children.
XX: From Sepharad to
Sephardic Diaspora (Hilary Pomeroy, email: hilarypomeroy@aol.com).
An overview of the Jews of Spain and Portugal including
anti-Jewish feeling in Spain and the Jew in Spanish literature,
the Inquisition and Exile, the creation of crypto-Jewish
communities in Iberia and the Spanish and Portuguese colonies,
the Sephardic communities of the Ottoman Empire and Western
Europe.
B118 The
Culture of Sephardic Jewry (Hilary Pomeroy, email: hilarypomeroy@aol.com).
This course gives an overview of this multi-faceted culture
including music, literature, life cycle celebrations,
folklore and superstition, architecture, illuminated
manuscripts, Judeo-Spanish, food, etc.
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 incantations.
C8: Aramaic
Papyri * About ten Aramaic papyri, studied with reference to
palaeography, philology and historical background.
C26 Dead Sea
Scrolls (Mark Geller, email: m.geller@ucl.ac.uk).
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.
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 Zalman’s Likkutey Amarim, the Hanhagot of R. Elimelech
of Lyzhansk, and selections from R. Dov Ber’s Shaarey Teshuvah
and Shaarey Orah.
C27: Final Year
Extended Essay . 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
HOLC0001 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.
MISR0001 Graduate
Seminar: Modern Israeli Studies (Neill Lochery, email: n.f.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.
HEBRG020 Ideologies
of Reading: Hebrew Texts from History’s Looking Glass (Tsila
Ratner, email: t.ratner@ucl.ac.uk;
Ada Rapoport-Albert, email: uclhara@ucl.ac.uk;
Tali Loewenthal, email: n.loewenthal@ucl.ac.uk).
The course will introduce students to a variety of Hebrew Texts
of different genres, periods and styles.
HEBRG021 Representations
of Trauma: Holocaust Writing (Tsila Ratner, email: t.ratner@ucl.ac.uk;
and other lecturers from the HJS,
Dutch, German and French Departments). The course will
examine, in English translation, selected literary texts on the
Holocaust from a variety of languages and cultures.
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Dept
of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College London
Website: www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/humanities/theorelig/top.html
Dept of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College London,
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom.
UNDERGRADUATE:
Introduction to Jewish Thought and Practice (Daniel
Rynhold, email: daniel.rynhold@kcl.ac.uk)
Varieties of Judaism (Daniel Rynhold, email: daniel.rynhold@kcl.ac.uk)
Jewish Law (Daniel Rynhold, email: daniel.rynhold@kcl.ac.uk)
Jewish Responses to Modernity (Daniel Rynhold, email:
daniel.rynhold@kcl.ac.uk)
Law and Jewish Philosophy (Daniel Rynhold, email:
daniel.rynhold@kcl.ac.uk)
Contemporary Jewish Philosophy: Joseph B. Soloveitchik
(Daniel Rynhold, email: daniel.rynhold@kcl.ac.uk)
Introducing OT Study (Deborah Rooke, email deborah.rooke@kcl.ac.uk)
Biblical Texts in English (Deborah Rooke, email
deborah.rooke@kcl.ac.uk)
Prophecy (Deborah Rooke, email deborah.rooke@kcl.ac.uk)
Pentateuch I and II (Deborah Rooke, email deborah.rooke@kcl.ac.uk)
Intermediate Biblical Hebrew (Deborah Rooke, email deborah.rooke@kcl.ac.uk)
Women and the OT (Deborah Rooke, email deborah.rooke@kcl.ac.uk)
Elementary Biblical Hebrew (Chaya Halberstam, email:
chaya.halberstam@kcl.ac.uk)
Advanced Biblical Hebrew (Deborah Rooke, email deborah.rooke@kcl.ac.uk)
POSTGRADUATE:
Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Daniel Rynhold, email: daniel.rynhold@kcl.ac.uk)
Advanced Hebrew Texts (Deborah Rooke, e-mail deborah.rooke@kcl.ac.uk)
Members of staff not
currently teaching a JS subject:
Judith Lieu, email: judith.lieu@kcl.ac.uk
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Leo
Baeck College - Centre for Jewish Education
Website: www.lbc-cje.ac.uk
Email: irit.burkeman@lbc-cje.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-cje.ac.uk)
Talmud (Mark Solomon and Chaim Weiner, email:
info@lbc-cje.ac.uk)
Codes and Responsa (Moshe Lavee, email: moshe.lavee@lbc-cje.ac.uk)
Midrash (Joanna Weinberg, email: joanna.weinberg@oriental-institute.oxford.ac.uk)
Jewish Thought (Sheila Shulman, email: shulman@clara.co.uk)
Jewish History (Cesar Merchan Hamann, email: cesar@lbc-cje.ac.uk)
POSTGRADUATE:
MA in Jewish Education (Helena Miller, email: helena.miller@lbc-cje.ac.uk)
MA Hebrew
and Jewish Studies degree programme (Irit Burkeman, email: irit.burkeman@lbc-cje.ac.uk)
Bible
(Jonathan Magonet, email: jonathan.magonet@lbc-cje.ac.uk)
Midrash (Moshe Lavee moshe.lavee@lbc-cje.ac.uk)
Talmud (Moshe Lavee moshe.lavee@lbc-cje.ac.uk)
Codes & Responsa (Moshe Lavee moshe.lavee@lbc-cje.ac.uk)
PhD/MPhil
(Jewish Studies related)
OTHER COURSES:
Advanced Diploma in
Professional Development: Jewish Education (Jo-Ann
Myers, email: jo.myers@lbc-cje.ac.uk)
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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.
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 beginner’s level course which teaches the skills of reception
(reading and listening), production (speaking and writing) in
the target language and mediation between the target language
and English (translation and interpretation).
NE 1222:
Modern Hebrew Language IB (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
a post-beginner's level a continuation of NE 1211, which
teaches the skills of reception (reading and listening), production
(speaking and writing) in the target language and mediation
between the target language and English (translation and interpretation).
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 2211:
Modern Hebrew Language IIA (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
a lower intermediate level course, which teaches the skills
of reception (reading and listening), production (speaking and
writing) in the target language and mediation between the target
language and English (translation and interpretation).
NE 2212:
Modern Hebrew Language IIB (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
an intermediate level course, a continuation of NE 2211, which
teaches the skills of reception (reading and listening), production
(speaking and writing) in the target language and mediation
between the target language and English (translation and interpretation).
NE2222 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 student’s vocabulary,
reading skills and use of dictionaries.
NE 2230:
Biblical Hebrew Texts I (Adrian Curtis, email: Adrian.Curtis@man.ac.uk):
a basic training in the methodology of traditional Hebrew Bible
studies, based on the student’s 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: Its Sources and Concerns (10 Credits)
(Dalia Hoshen: email: dhoshen@yahoo.co.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) (Dalia
Hoshen: email: dhoshen@yahoo.co.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. (not currently running)
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 2081:
Jewish
Ways of Reading the Bible (Philip Alexander, email:
Philip.Alexander@man.ac.uk):
(alt: TH 2362): the course considers early Jewish commentaries
on the Bible from Second Temple times down to the Middle Ages.
A number of major commentators (Rashi, Kimhi and Ibn Ezra) are
singled out for closer investigation. Much of the course is
devoted to reading and analysing in English translation sample
texts, particularly (though not exclusively) concerned with
the Account of Creation in Genesis 1-3, the story of the Binding
of Isaac in Genesis 22, the Song of Songs and the Servant Songs
in the Book of Isaiah. (not currently running)
TH 2162:
Dead
Sea Scrolls (George Brooke, email: George.Brooke@man.ac.uk):
The texts are studied in English and the course pays particular
attention to the Rules which may describe the movement's law
and life, the sectarian biblical commentaries, and the liturgical
and poetic texts. The significance of the scrolls for early
Judaism and nascent Christianity is also considered. Several
films are used to illustrate the history and the range of scholarly
opinion about these texts.
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 2181:
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 2360:
The Visual Dimensions of Judaism (Philip Alexander, email:
Philip.Alexander@man.ac.uk):
(alt: TH 2080): The course considers the roles played by visual
symbols within religious systems in general, Judaism's prohibition
of images and its effects on the development of Jewish art,
the major visual symbols of Judaism - their history, meaning
and purpose , and the functions of symbolism within Judaism,
its role in defining group identity and how it reflects the
changing relationship of Jewish communities to the non-Jewish
world. (not currently running)
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. (not currently running)
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):
This course consists of the study of Modern Hebrew literary
texts and their appreciation in context. The works of three
modern Hebrew authors are studied in the original, using English
translations as support. Although translations are used as aid,
students are expected to master the material in the Hebrew original.
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).
(not currently running)
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. (not currently running)
NE 3810
Gender Topics in Rabbinic Judaism (Dalia Hoshen: email:
dhoshen@yahoo.co.uk):
The course is concerned with two main gender topics: the status
of women and sexuality. It is based on both talmudic post talmudic
sources, with comparison to non-Jewish parallels where relevant.
The course considers different approaches: political, historical,
feminist and traditional. It will explore women's status in
relation to mitzvot (commandments) and Torah study, and explore
the rabbinic conception of sexuality in the context of the marriage
bond.
NE 3910
Basic Principles of Talmudic Discourse (Dalia Hoshen:
email: dhoshen@yahoo.co.uk):
This course introduces students to the dialectics of the Babylon
Talmud (CE 200-500). It commences with a brief introduction
to the Talmud and its sources, and to the structure of the talmudic
sugia. The main text studied will be Bavli Bava Qama (hachovel,
Vilna edition 84b, chap. 8), which deals with corporal injuries.
This sugia exposes us to a combination of concepts regarding
law, human sorrow and shame. The course also uses secondary
literature, in order to develop a critical reading based on
both internal and external criteria.
TH 3100:
Being
Jewish in Britain (Bill Williams): This course introduces
students to the empirical study of Jewish identity in contemporary
Britain and to the collection and interpretation of oral testimony.
(not currently running)
TH 3171:
The
Mystical Tradition in Judaism (Philip Alexander, email:
Philip.Alexander@man.ac.uk):
(alt: TH 3250): This course considers the ‘canon’ of Jewish
mystical literature, starting with Heikhalot mysticism and Jewish
Gnosticism in late antiquity, proceeding chronologically to
the Qabbalah (Zoharic, Abulafian and Lurianic), mediaeval German
Hasidism, the Jewish Sufis of Egypt, Shabbateanism and its offshoots
and modern Hasidism, and concludes with an investigation of
the vitality of the mystical tradition within Judaism today.
Special emphasis is placed on reading and analysing primary
sources in English translation, especially from the Zohar. The
course also considers the origins of mysticism and its importance
in the historical development of Judaism. (not currently running)
TH 3181:
Law
and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible (Bernard Jackson,
email: Bernard.Jackson@man.ac.uk):
(alt: TH 3241): Commencing with an introduction to biblical
law and its relation to biblical narrative, the course examines
legal aspects of the pre-patriarchal, patriarchal and royal
narratives; narratives of law-giving and adjudication; narrative
elements in the laws themselves, and the relationship between
law, narrative and theology in the Hebrew Bible. (not currently running)
TH 3191:
History
of Jewish Law (Bernard Jackson, email: Bernard.Jackson@man.ac.uk):
The course traces the history of Jewish law from biblical times
the modern State of Israel, with particular attention to its
theological assumptions and its inter-relations with other cultures.
Substantive topics studied within this framework are the history
of family law and personal status, particularly marriage, divorce,
inheritance, conversion, criminal law (including the trial of
Jesus). Bibliography
TH 3230:
Major
Themes in Jewish Theology (Philip Alexander, email:
Philip.Alexander@man.ac.uk):
(alt: TH 3170): The course surveys the history of theology within
Judaism from the 2nd Temple period to modern times and studies
the relationship of theology to halakhah, mysticism and ethics,
the debates over the role of creeds within Judaism , the concepts
of God, creation, humanity, sin and evil, Torah and revelation,
Israel, the Covenant at Sinai, and eschatology . It concludes
with the holocaust, the founding of the State of Israel, modern
science and feminism. (not currently running)
TH 3241:
Early Biblical Law: The Mishpatim of Exodus 21-22 (Bernard
Jackson, email: Bernard.Jackson@man.ac.uk):
(alt: TH 3181): This course offers an introduction to Biblical
Law and an analysis of one of its major texts, the first part
of the "Covenant Code" (Exodus 21:1-22:16), discussing
its relationship to other collections of Biblical Law. Study
of the text raises general questions as to the nature of the
rules of Biblical Law, and of the forms of dispute resolution
implied by them. Emphasis is placed on the reading and discussion
of primary sources in translation. (not currently running)
TH 3252:
Law
and Religion in the Modern State of Israel (Bernard
Jackson, email: Bernard.Jackson@man.ac.uk):
(alt: TH 3192): The course reviews the debates regarding the
relationship between law and religion within the Zionist movement;
traces the history of the relationship from the Ottoman Empire
through the British mandate to the modern State; and considers
the modern "compromise" as it affects both religious
practice and the law of personal status (marriage, divorce,
conversion) in the State of Israel, together with the definition
of "Jew" under the Law of Return and for other purposes.
(not currently running)
TH 3332
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 3382:
Biblical
Hebrew Texts II (George Brooke, email: George.Brooke@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 3911:
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.
POSTGRADUATE
MA in
Jewish Studies
FA 6001
Faculty Research Training Course compulsory core course
NE 6012
Modern
Hebrew for Graduate Students (Sophie Garside, email:
Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
The course will give students a useful start to the task of
reading books and articles in Hebrew in their field of research.
This will be helpful to PhD and MA students from different areas
of research, e.g. Archaeology, Biblical Studies, Jewish History,
Theology in general and any other area in which the reading
and understanding of Modern Hebrew for scholarly purposes will
be a beneficial tool. Students with no previous knowledge of
Hebrew will be required to take NE1211 Modern Hebrew Language
in Semester 1.
NE 8021+
8031 Modern
Hebrew Language (Sophie Garside, email: Sophie.Garside@man.ac.uk):
Modern Hebrew at level I.
NE 6200
Jewish
Aramaic Texts (Alex Samely, email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
Appreciation of advanced forms of rabbinic discourse through
the detailed study of selected Jewish texts in Aramaic.
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.
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).
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.
NE9810 Gender
Topics in Rabbinic Judaism (Dalia Hoshen: e-mail: dhoshen@yahoo.co.uk):
The course is concerned with two main gender topics: the status
of women and sexuality. It is based on both talmudic post talmudic
sources, with comparison to non-Jewish parallels where relevant.
The course considers different approaches: political, historical,
feminist and traditional. It will explore women's status in
relation to mitzvot (commandments) and Torah study, and explore
the rabbinic conception of sexuality in the context of the marriage
bond.
NE9910 Basic
Principles of Talmudic Discourse (Dalia Hoshen: email:
dhoshen@yahoo.co.uk):
This course introduces students to the dialectics of the Babylon
Talmud (CE 200-500). It commences with a brief introduction
to the Talmud and its sources, and to the structure of the talmudic
sugia. The main text studied will be Bavli Bava Qama (hachovel,
Vilna edition 84b, chap. 8), which deals with corporal injuries.
This sugia exposes us to a combination of concepts regarding
law, human sorrow and shame. The course also uses secondary
literature, in order to develop a critical reading based on
both internal and external criteria.
TH 6112
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 9100 Being
Jewish in Britain (Bill Williams): 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 9191 Jewish
Law: History, Authority and the Problem of the Agunah
(Bernard Jackson, email: Bernard.Jackson@man.ac.uk):
Commences with an introduction to the Historical, Literary and
Legal Sources of Jewish Law. Reviews the history of marriage,
divorce and succession, then looks in turn at the following
proposed solutions to the problem of the "chained wife"
(the Agunah, whose husband refuses her a divorce).
TH 9242
Jewish
Art and Architecture through the Ages (Sharman Kadish
email: Sharman.Kadish@man.ac.uk):
Surveys
the artistic output of the Jews from Biblical times to the 21st
century, with particular emphasis on the modern period. The
principal branches of Jewish artistic endeavour will be studied
embracing portable material culture such as Hebrew illuminated
manuscripts and ritual Judaica alongside the architectural development
of the synagogue through archaeological remains and standing
buildings. The course will focus on the emergence of Jewish
artists, architects and craftsmen and their participation in
general European art movements since the 19th century era of
emancipation.
TH 9382
Hebrew
Texts (George Brooke, email: George.Brooke@man.ac.uk):
Explores selected passages from the Hebrew Bible and consideration
of issues of textual, linguistic and exegetical interest arising
from them.
TH 9651
Sources,
Resources and Methods in the Study of Judaism (Philip
Alexander, email: Philip.Alexander@man.ac.uk)
compulsory core course
TH 9811Jewish
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 9911Jewish
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.
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 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.
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.
NOT RUNNING:
2004-05
NE 6030 Spinoza's
Philosophy and Critique of Religion (Alex Samely, email:
Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk):
Explores the interplay between philosophical system and biblical
criticism in Spinoza as one of the forefathers of modernity.
NE 6050 Aspects
of Jewish Exegesis and Philosophy in the Middle Ages
(Alex Samely, email: Alexander.Samely@man.ac.uk)
TH 9080 Jewish
Ways of Reading the Bible (Philip Alexander, email:
Philip.Alexander@man.ac.uk):
Explores how canonic texts function within Judaism, and how
they are creatively adapted to meet changing historical and
social conditions.
TH 9171 Gnosticism
and the Jewish Mystical Tradition (Philip Alexander,
email: Philip.Alexander@man.ac.uk):
Introduces the 'canon' of Jewish mystical literature, starting
with Heikhalot mysticism and Jewish Gnosticism in late antiquity,
proceeding chronologically to the Qabbalah (Zoharic, Abulafian
and Lurianic), mediaeval German Hasidism, the Jewish Sufis of
Egypt, Shabbateanism and its offshoots and modern Hasidism.
TH 9181
Law
and Narrative in the Old Testament (Bernard Jackson,
email: Bernard.Jackson@man.ac.uk):
Introduces biblical law and its relation to biblical narrative.
Examines legal aspects of the pre-patriarchal, patriarchal and
royal narratives; narratives of law giving and adjudication;
narrative elements in the laws themselves, and the relationship
between law, narrative and theology in the Old Testament.
TH 9452
Readings
in the Gemara of the Babylonian Talmud (Philip
Alexander, email: Philip.Alexander@man.ac.uk):
Introduces the Babylonian Talmud. Begins by clarifying the origins
of the Talmud in the Rabbinic schools of Babylonia in late antiquity,
and concludes by discussing the influence of the Talmud on the
historical development of Judaism.
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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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: eran.argov@brasenose.oxford.ac.uk)
Yiddish language (Kerstin.Hoge@St-Annes.ox.ac.uk)
Questions of Jewish
Identity in Yiddish Literature (Joseph Sherman, email: joseph.sherman@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
The religious and cultural legacy of Moses Maimonides
(Joanna Weinberg, email: joanna.weinberg@oriental-institute.oxford.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 Government and Politics of Israel (Emanuele Ottolenghi,
email: emanuele.ottolenghi@sant.ox.ac.uk)
Jewish and Christian Bible Translation and Interpretation
in Antiquity (Alison Salvesen, email: alison.salvesen@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Septuagint Texts and Studies (Alison Salvesen, email:
alison.salvesen@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Targum Aramaic (Alison Salvesen, email: alison.salvesen@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Jewish History 200 B.C.E.-70 C.E. (Jonathan Kirkpatrick,
email: Jonathan.kirkpatrick@balliol.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)
The Emergence of Modern Religious Movements in Judaism
(Miri Freud-Kandel, email: miri.freud-kandel@oriental-institute.oxford.ac.uk)
The rise of normative Judaism and Christianity (Piet
van Boxel, email: vanboxel@ochjs.ac.uk)
Witnessing the Holocaust (Zoë Waxman, email: zoe.waxman@mansfield.ox.ac.uk)
The Diaspora in the Roman Empire: Jews, Pagans and Christian
to 450 C.E. (Fergus Millar, email: fergus.millar@brasenose.ox.ac.uk)
The study of ancient Israelite religion (Madhavi
Nevader, email: mahdavi.nevader@oriel.ox.ac.uk)
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University
of Oxford
Website: www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/nme.htm
(Faculty of Oriental Studies: Near and Middle East)
The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE, United
Kingdom. Tel 01865 278200,
Fax 01865 278190.
UNDERGRADUATE:
The University offers a BA in Hebrew and a separate BA in Jewish
Studies. It is possible to move from one BA to the other after
the first public examination (held during the first year of
the course).
BA Jewish Studies: Tuition
for general paper in Jewish History, Religion and Culture, and
in Hebrew language, throughout the course.
Tutorials
and classes:
Biblical Texts (Hugh
Williamson, email: hugh.williamson@orinst.ox.ac.uk,
J.F. Ewolde, email: jfelwolde@aol.com)
Rabbinic and Medieval Hebrew Texts (Joanna Weinberg,
email: joanna.weinberg@oriental-institute.oxford.ac.uk)
Modern Hebrew Literature (Glenda Abramson, email: glenda.abramson@stx.ox.ac.uk)
Jewish Aramaic (David Taylor, email: david.taylor@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Biblical History (Hugh Williamson, email: hugh.williamson@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Biblical Religion (John Day, email: john.day@theology.ox.ac.uk,
Paul Joyce, email: paul.joyce@theology.ox.ac.uk)
Biblical Archaeology (Hugh Williamson, email: hugh.williamson@orinst.ox.ac.uk,
John Day, email: john.day@theology.ox.ac.uk)
Biblical Narrative (Hugh Williamson, email: hugh.williamson@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Prophets and Prophecy (Hugh Williamson, email: hugh.williamson@orinst.ox.ac.uk,
John Barton, email: john.barton@oriel.ox.ac.uk)
Second Temple Judaism (Jonathan Kirkpatrick, email: Jonathan.kirkpatrick@balliol.ox.ac.uk)
Second Temple History (Jonathan Kirkpatrick, email:
Jonathan.kirkpatrick@balliol.ox.ac.uk)
History of the Tamudic Period (Jonathan Kirkpatrick,
email: Jonathan.kirkpatrick@balliol.ox.ac.uk)
Medieval Jewish History (Joanna Weinberg, email: jweinberg@oriental-institute.ox.ac.uk)
Medieval Jewish Thought (Joanna Weinberg, email: jweinberg@oriental-institute.ox.ac.uk)
Jewish Aramiac Literature (David Taylor, email: david.taylor@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Formation and Historical Context of the Talmuds (Norman
Solomon, email: normanatoxford@aol.com)
Haskalah (David Rechter, email: david.rechter@history.ox.ac.uk,
Glenda Abramson, email: glenda.abramson@stx.ox.ac.uk,
Joseph Sherman, email: joseph.sherman@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Jewish History, 1750-1948 (David Rechter, email: david.rechter@history.ox.ac.uk)
Modern Jewish Society (Miri Freud-Kandel, email: miri.freud-kandel@oriental-institute.oxford.ac.uk,
Jonathan Webber)
State of Israel (Emanuele Ottolenghi, email: emanuele.ottolenghi@sant.ox.ac.uk)
Modern Hebrew Literature (Glenda Abramson, email: glenda.abramson@stx.ox.ac.uk)
Yiddish Literature (Joseph Sherman, email: joseph.sherman@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Modern Jewish Thought (Miri Freud-Kandel, email: miri.freud-kandel@oriental-institute.oxford.ac.uk)
History of Jewish-Christian Relations (Jonathan Kirkpatrick,
email: Jonathan.kirkpatrick@balliol.ox.ac.uk,
Joanna Weinberg, email: jweinberg@oriental-institute.ox.ac.uk,
Norman Solomon, email: normanatoxford@aol.com)*
History of Jewish-Muslim Relations (Ronald Nettler, email:
ronald.nettler@mansf.ox.ac.uk)
History of Jewish Bible Interpretation (Joanna Weinberg,
email: jweinberg@oriental-institute.ox.ac.uk)
History of Hebrew Literature (Hugh Williamson, email:
hugh.williamson@orinst.ox.ac.uk,
Joanna Weinberg, email: jweinberg@oriental-institute.ox.ac.uk,
Glenda Abramson, email: glenda.abramson@stx.ox.ac.uk)
Specialised
lecture courses:
Modern and Contemporary
Hebrew Literature (Glenda
Abramson, email: glenda.abramson@stx.ox.ac.uk)
The Literature of the Holocaust (Glenda Abramson, email:
glenda.abramson@stx.ox.ac.uk)
Modern Jewish Literature (Glenda Abramson, email: glenda.abramson@stx.ox.ac.uk)
The Exilic Age (John Barton, email: john.barton@oriel.ox.ac.uk)
The Post-Exilic Biblical Literature (John Barton, email:
john.barton@oriel.ox.ac.uk)
Genesis 1-11 (John Day, email: john.day@theology.ox.ac.uk)
Genesis 6-9, Exodus 20, 24, Hebrew Text (John Day, email: john.day@theology.ox.ac.uk)
The Book of Amos (Susan Gillingham, email: susan.gillingham@worc.ox.ac.uk)
Judaism and Islam : an encounter of Religions in the Middle
East (Ronald Nettler, email: ronald.nettler@mansf.ox.ac.uk)
A Survey of Muslim Jewish Relations (Ronald Nettler,
email: ronald.nettler@mansf.ox.ac.uk)
Israeli Government and Politics (Emanuele Ottolenghi,
email: emanuele.ottolenghi@sant.ox.ac.uk)
The Jews of Europe, 1789-1945 (David Rechter, email:
david.rechter@history.ox.ac.uk)
Modern Jewish History (David Rechter, email: david.rechter@history.ox.ac.uk)
Jewish Politics and the Jewish Question, 1840-1945 (David
Rechter, email: david.rechter@history.ox.ac.uk)
Modern Jewish Politics and Ideologies (David Rechter,
email: david.rechter@history.ox.ac.uk)
Jewish Liturgy (Jeremy Schonfield, email: jjschon@globalnet.co.uk)
Introduction to Judaism (Jeremy Schonfield, email: jjschon@globalnet.co.uk)
Questions of Jewish Identity in Yiddish Literature (Joseph
Sherman, email: joseph.sherman@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Elementary and advanced classical Hebrew (Hugh Williamson,
email: hugh.williamson@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Reading classes on a wide variety of Biblical texts (Hugh
Williamson, email: hugh.williamson@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Ancient Israelite history (Hugh Williamson, email: hugh.williamson@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Jewish History, 200 BCE-70 CE (Jonathan Kirkpatrick,
email: Jonathan.kirkpatrick@balliol.ox.ac.uk)
Jews in the Roman World, 70 CE- 429 CE (Jonathan Kirkpatrick,
email: Jonathan.kirkpatrick@balliol.ox.ac.uk)
Varieties of Judaism in the Second Temple Period (Jonathan
Kirkpatrick, email: Jonathan.kirkpatrick@balliol.ox.ac.uk)
Josephus (Jonathan Kirkpatrick, email: Jonathan.kirkpatrick@balliol.ox.ac.uk)
Jewish Greek Historiography (Jonathan Kirkpatrick, email:
Jonathan.kirkpatrick@balliol.ox.ac.uk)
Jews and Christians in the Early Roman Empire (Jonathan
Kirkpatrick, email: Jonathan.kirkpatrick@balliol.ox.ac.uk)
Modern Jewish Theology (Miri Freud-Kandel, email: miri.freud-kandel@oriental-institute.oxford.ac.uk)
Introduction to the Septuagint (Alison Salvesen, email:
alison.salvesen@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
Midrash (Joanna Weinberg, email: jweinberg@oriental-institute.ox.ac.uk)
POSTGRADUATE:
MSt in Jewish Studies
(administered by the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies)
MSt in Classical Hebrew
MSt in Jewish Studies in the Graeco-Roman Period
MSt in Modern Jewish Studies
MPhil Jewish Studies in the Graeco-Roman Period
MPhil Judaism and Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World
MPhil in Modern Jewish Studies
MSt in Oriental Studies (tailor-made MSts)
MPhil in Modern Middle East (with option to specialise in Israel
and the
Middle East)
No of DPhil students
(Jewish Studies related): about 25 in July 2002
Members of the learning
unit not currently teaching a JS subject:
Sebastian Brock, email:
sebastian.brock@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Avi Shlaim, email: avi.shlaim@sant.ox.ac.uk
Geza Vermes, email: geza.vermes@orinst.ox.ac.uk
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Parkes
Institute for the Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations, University
of Southampton
Website: www.parkes.soton.ac.uk
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
(Brian Cheyette, email: bhc@soton.ac.uk)
Out of the Ghetto: Heine, Disraeli and the Warner
Brothers (Nils Roemer, email: nr2@soton.ac.uk)
The Jews of Europe, 1789-1914
(David Cesarani, email: dc11@soton.ac.uk)
Making of Englishness, Race, Ethnicity and Immigration
in British Society, 1841 to the Present
(Tony Kushner, email: ark@soton.ac.uk)
Who is Anne Frank?
(Tony Kushner, email: ark@soton.ac.uk)
The Holocaust: Policy, Responses and Aftermath
(Mark Roseman, email: m.roseman@soton.ac.uk
and Svenja Goltmann, email: sg2@soton.ac.uk)
Masada, History and Myth
(Sarah Pearce, email: s.j.pearce@soton.ac.uk)
From the Dead Sea Scrolls to Jesus
(Sarah Pearce, email: s.j.pearce@soton.ac.uk)
NOT RUNNING
Jews in the Greco-Roman Period
(Sarah Pearce, email: s.j.pearce@soton.ac.uk)
NOT RUNNING
German-Jews and Jewish Germans in Modern Times
(Nils Roemer, email: nr2@soton.ac.uk)
Israel or Palestine? The British in Palestine 1917-1948
(Mark Levene, email: ml1@soton.ac.uk)
Jews and Judaism; Inside and Outside the Enlightenment
(Nils Roemer, email: nr2@soton.ac.uk)
Looking beyond the Holocaust; Genocide in Contemporary
History (Mark Levene, email:
ml1@soton.ac.uk)
Israel or Palestine? The British in Palestine 1917-1948
(Mark Levene, email: ml1@soton.ac.uk)
Islam and the West: Historical Roots of Current Disjunctures
(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
and Daphne Freedman, email: d.freedman@soton.ac.uk)
From the Nile to Jerusalem and Further East, Jews
under Persian Rule (Daphne Freedman,
email: d.freedman@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)
Jews in the City; The Urban Experience in Eastern
Europe up to the Holocaust (Natan
Meir, email nmm7@columbia.edu)
POSTGRADUATE:
MA coordinator: Sarah
Pearce, email: s.j.pearce@soton.ac.uk
Application forms and instructions available at: www.soton.ac.uk/~prospect/forms
MA
Jewish History and Culture
Relations
between Jews & Non-Jews in the Hellenistic World
(Tony Kushner, email: ark@soton.ac.uk,
Sarah Pearce, email: s.j.pearce@soton.ac.uk)
Jews and 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)
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
(Nils Roemer, email: nr2@soton.ac.uk)
Holocaust Literature: Expressing the Other
(Andrea Reiter, email: air@soton.ac.uk)
The Holocaust and American Film
(James Jordan, email: j.a.jordan@soton.ac.uk)
Masters by Research MRes (full
and part-time) in Jewish History and Culture
Co-ordinator is Sarah Pearce, email: s.j.pearce@soton.ac.uk.
The MRes in Jewish History and Culture offers students the opportunity
to focus their studies on independent research in Jewish History
and Culture, whilst also benefiting from the support of foundation
courses in research skills and Jewish Studies.
PhD
(Jewish Studies related)
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