Jewish Studies

2026-2027

53 courses

JWST 10History and Culture of the Jews I: The Classical Period
JWST 11History and Culture of the Jews II: The Modern Period
JWST 11.02History and Culture of the Arab-Jews
JWST 11.04The Book of Exodus: Text, History, Memory, and Reception
JWST 11.05From Persia To Rome: Ethnicity in Ancient Empires
JWST 12.02Jewish Literatures in Latin America: Belonging Beyond Borders
JWST 12.03Irish and Jewish Identities: Crossovers in Culture
JWST 12.04Exile and Hope in Yiddish and Hebrew Literature
JWST 12.19The Global War on Terror
JWST 13Jews and Race
JWST 15.01Silence, Exile, and Cunning: Comparing Jewish and African Diasporic Literatures
JWST 20.01German-Jewish Exile Literature (in English)
JWST 21New York and the Metropolitan Imagination in Twentieth-Century American Jewish Literature
JWST 21.02Modern Jewish American Women Writers
JWST 25.03Curious George: A Secret History (in English)
JWST 26European Jewish Intellectuals
JWST 26.01Heidegger and Jewish Thought
JWST 27.01The Jewish Family
JWST 28.02The Dead Sea Scrolls
JWST 34.02History of Jews in Germany
JWST 34.03German-Jewish History (in English. Fall )
JWST 34.04Ukraine, Jews, and the Literature of War
JWST 34.05Jewish Folklore
JWST 34.06A History of Russian and Eastern European Jewry
JWST 35Remembering Jewish Lives
JWST 36.01Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Age of the Crusades
JWST 36.04The Qur'an in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
JWST 37.02Nazis, Neonazis, Antifa and the Others: Exploring Responses to the Nazi Past (in English)
JWST 4Religion of Israel: The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)
JWST 40.01Politics of Israel and Palestine
JWST 40.07Introduction to Middle East Politics
JWST 40.08America and the Middle East
JWST 42Film, Fiction and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
JWST 42.11The Arab, the Jew, and the Construction of Modernity
JWST 42.12Difficult Conversations on the Middle East
JWST 44The Making of the Modern Middle East
JWST 44.01The Middle East in Film: Picturing the Past and Present
JWST 45Soundscapes of the Middle East
JWST 5.01Homelands and Diasporas: Russian Jews on Three Continents
JWST 51Freud: Psychoanalysis, Jews, and Gender (in English)
JWST 53Gender and Judaism
JWST 53.01Gender and Jewish-German Culture (in English)
JWST 6Judaism: Sacred Texts and Ritual Life in Diaspora
JWST 6.01Revelation and Interpretation in Rabbinic, Philosophical, and Mystical Literature
JWST 60.02Modern Sex: Weimar Republic Germany 1918-1933 (in English)
JWST 61Modern Judaism
JWST 62Jewish Mysticism
JWST 67.031967: The War That Never Ended
JWST 74.01The Jewish Jesus
JWST 85Independent Study and Research
JWST 86Senior Thesis Part 1
JWST 87Senior Thesis Part 2
JWST 9Jews and Judaism in the Americas