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Honours students must maintain a GPA of 3.00 in their program courses and, according to Faculty regulations, a minimum CGPA of 3.00 in general.
Jewish Studies : The history, literature and beliefs of Judaism's formative period. Both Biblical and non-Biblical materials will be studied. The Bible in the context of cognate literatures of the Ancient Near East; non-Biblical documents will be analysed for their bearing on the Jewish tradition.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Levy, B Barry (Fall)
All texts will be read in English
Jewish Studies : A tutorial for the preparation of an Honours Thesis.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Heller, Daniel (Fall)
Restriction: Open only to Honours and Joint Honours students.
Jewish Studies : A tutorial for the preparation of an Honours Thesis.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Heller, Daniel (Winter)
Restriction: Open only to Honours and Joint Honours Students.
51 credits selected as follows:
6 credits of courses on Jewish history.
One of:
History : An overview of Jewish history from the period of Ezra and Nehemiah to the death of Hai Gaon, c. 1035. Focus on the experience of the Jews in Hellenistic and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Jewish sects, rabbinic literature in its various genres, the Karaite schism, and the rise of the Gaonate.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Fall)
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken JWST 216
Jewish Studies : The history, literature and intellectual developments in Judaism during late antiquity. Special emphasis will be placed on rabbinic literature e.g. Babylonian Talmud, Palestinian Talmud, the midrashim both as literary works and for the light they shed on the events and ideologies of the period.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts and discussions will be in English
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken HIST 207
One of:
History : The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Winter)
Jewish Studies : The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts will be read in English
0-18 credits of a Jewish language. Each Honours student will complete at least one Jewish language at the advanced level of instruction. A student who can demonstrate competence in a Jewish language may be permitted to substitute other courses for all or part of the language requirement.
Hebrew language courses are found listed under the heading "Language and Literature - Hebrew," and Yiddish language courses are found under the heading "Language and Literature - Yiddish."
27-45 credits of courses chosen to reflect progress to the advanced level in two of the areas of study: Biblical Studies, Rabbinic Studies, Literature (Hebrew, Yiddish), Jewish Thought, Jewish History, Modern Jewish Studies, and East European Studies.
Hebrew literature courses are found listed under the heading "Language and Literature - Hebrew," and Yiddish literature courses are found under the heading "Language and Literature - Yiddish".
Students should select their courses in consultation with a program adviser.
Jewish Studies : The history, literature and beliefs of Judaism's formative period. Both Biblical and non-Biblical materials will be studied. The Bible in the context of cognate literatures of the Ancient Near East; non-Biblical documents will be analysed for their bearing on the Jewish tradition.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Levy, B Barry (Fall)
All texts will be read in English
Jewish Studies : Issues in the development of Biblical interpretation based on classical Jewish thought, heretical Jewish doctrines and contemporary Biblical criticism.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : One book of the Bible will be studied in its entirety in Hebrew. Emphasis on the contributions of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (archaeology, comparative literature and Semitic linguistics) to understanding the text.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: Knowledge of Hebrew
Jewish Studies : One book of the Bible will be studied in its entirety in Hebrew. Emphasis on the contributions of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (archaeology, comparative literature and Semitic linguistics) to understanding the text.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Winter
Prerequisite: Knowledge of Hebrew
Jewish Studies : One book of the Bible will be studied in its entirety in Hebrew. Emphasis on the contributions of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (archaeology, comparative literature and Semitic linguistics) to understanding the text.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: Knowledge of Hebrew
Jewish Studies : One book of the Bible will be studied in its entirety in Hebrew. Emphasis on the contributions of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (archaeology, comparative literature and Semitic linguistics) to understanding the text.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Winter
Prerequisite: Knowledge of Hebrew
Jewish Studies : The structure, contents, foci and ideological assumptions of Jewish prayer. Texts will reflect the different approaches to prayer in Biblical, rabbinic, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on the evolution of the classical Hebrew prayer book (Siddur) and the Passover Haggadah.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Hebrew
Jewish Studies : The issues, approaches, and texts of Jewish Bible interpretation between the Biblical and Talmudic eras: Bible interpretation in the Bible; in Greco-Roman Jewish literature; in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Targumim, and Talmudim; early Samaritan interpretation, Bible interpretation in ancient synagogue art, and in the massoretic literature.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Levy, B Barry (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 512
Jewish Studies : The issues, problems, approaches, and texts of Jewish Bible interpretation in medieval, renaissance, early modern, and modern times. Interpretation in the Geonic, Ashkenazi, Sefardic, North African, Italian, European, Yemenite, North American and Israeli centres of Jewish Learning.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Levy, B Barry (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 512
Jewish Studies : Studies in bible interpretation in Antiquity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Advanced level work on one aspect of Jewish Bible interpretation in late antiquity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Issues, techniques and texts of Jewish Bible study in medieval France and Germany; Rashi, Qara, Rashbam, the Tosafists, etc.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : A study of the Bible commentaries of lbn Ezra.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Biblical Interpretation in the Guide of the Perplexed and related writings.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Requires Departmental approval
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 540
Jewish Studies : The dynamics of Jewish Bible interpretation in medieval times and the attempts by various authors to read the Bible as an independent Hebrew document, not only in the light of the pre-medieval rabbinical exegetical tradition.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Advanced level work in one aspect of Jewish Bible interpretation in medieval times.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The past two centuries have witnessed the active participation of many Jewish writers in the academic enterprise of Bible scholarship. This course will explore the writings of a selection of European, American, and Israeli writers and the roles they have played in archaeological, philological, historical, literary and other critical endeavours.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Kaplan, Lawrence (Fall)
Jewish Studies : A study of biblical literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The text of the Hebrew Bible as it evolved between antiquity and the most recent printed edition. Attention will be given to the accurate reconstruction of the Bible from primary and secondary witnesses: Greek and Aramic translations, Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient quotations, and the Massoretic notes and lists.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 507
Jewish Studies : Advanced level work in one aspect of Jewish Bible Interpretation that cuts across all periods of Jewish Bible interpretation.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : A study of the Aramaic language.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Levy, B Barry (Fall)
Requires Departmental approval
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 506
Religious Studies : Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures as responses to earlier sacred texts and in the light of post-scriptural interpretations. The debates, polemics, interpretative strategies, and intellectual and spiritual sharing produced by these three religions in accepting, explaining, amplifying, modifying, and selectively rejecting their and other sacred scriptures.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Winter
History : Analyses of primary sources (in translation) related to the social, economic and institutional history of the Jews in Poland and their place in the East European Jewish community. Topics include: the Jews during "The Flood'' (1648 - 1667), the communal crisis of the late 17th century, the Frankist movement, and Hasidism.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Winter)
Prerequisite: any course in Jewish history or East European History
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-307D
History : A historical examination of the history of the Hasidic Movement from its beginnings in 18th-century Poland to the present. Although emphasis will be placed on the social history of the movement, doctrinal developments will be examined as well.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 307 or a course in East-European history or consent of instructor
Jewish Studies : A survey of modern Yiddish literature from its beginnings in the 1880s to the present. Particular attention will be paid to representative themes, forms, and literary techniques. Emphasis will be put on relations between literary texts and historical and literary contexts.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Frank, Esther (Winter)
Readings are in English
Jewish Studies : The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts will be read in English
Jewish Studies : Consideration of the history of the Holocaust and the literary, theological and cultural responses to the destruction of European Jewry.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Heller, Daniel (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 252 "The Holocaust"
Jewish Studies : Within a comparative framework, this course examines cultural, thematic and artistic developments in the works of modern Jewish literature written in both Jewish and non-Jewish languages. For those without reading knowledge of the original, all works are available in English translation.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Frank, Esther (Fall)
All texts will be read in English
Jewish Studies : The development of the Jewish labor and socialist movement in Eastern Europe from the last quarter of the 19th century to the Bolshevik Revolution.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The development of the Jewish labor and socialist movement in North America from the last quarter of the 19th century to WWI.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Using historical, sociological, literary and cultural sources, this course will examine various aspects of communal and individual life in the shtetl, the Jewish - or largely Jewish - town in Eastern Europe.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The rise and development of the various ideologies which attempt to define the Jews in historical, national and socio-cultural terms will be analyzed within the context of modern European nationalism. Selected texts of the Jewish Enlightenment, Science of Judaism, Peretz Smolenskin, Leon Pinsker, Simon Dubnow, Chaim Zhitlowsky and Ahad Ha-Am.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : An examination of the development of the Zionist idea, the most influential expression of modern Jewish nationalism, which led to the creation of the Jewish state. The transformation of elements of traditional Jewish messianism into a modern political ideology. Hibbat Zion, Political Zionism, Cultural and Synthetic Zionism will be discussed.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Heller, Daniel (Fall)
Recommended: JWST 365
Jewish Studies : In the forefront of the development of modern society in Europe and North America, the Jews have shown a distinct preference for the metropolis. The influence of Vienna and New York on the socio-cultural development of the Jews and on the Jewish contribution to general culture. The contributions of Schnitzler, Freud, Herzl and the New York intellectuals.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Students must register for both JWST 371D1 and JWST 371D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 371D1 and JWST 371D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Jewish Studies : See JWST 371D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: JWST 371D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 371D1 and JWST 371D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Jewish Studies : A review of modern Yiddish literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Readings from Holocaust literature in English translation. Writers include Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Elie Wiesel, Dan Pagis, Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, U.Z. Greenberg and others.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken this topic under JWST 381
Jewish Studies : Discussion of loss in Jewish literature, particularly in Holocaust writings, and in various themes, in memories, dreams or in mysticism, for example. A basic introduction to clinical studies on grief will serve as background.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: Some prior related university course at 300 level or higher, e.g. literature, psychology or social work. Permission of instructor required
All texts in English
Jewish Studies : An introduction to the work of various modern 'national poets' - i.e. poets closely linked to national movements who expressed (or constructed) a particular national identity and whose work has lasting artistic value. These will include Mickiewicz of Poland, Tagore of India, Yeats of Ireland, and Bialik of pre-state Israel.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Aberbach, David (Fall)
Jewish Studies : Individualized guided research on an approved topic in Yiddish literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Individualized guided research on an approved topic in Yiddish literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Indivisualized guided research on an approved topic in Yiddish literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Individualized guided research on an approved topic in Yiddish literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Individualized guided research on an approved topic in East European studies.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Heller, Daniel (Fall)
Jewish Studies : Indivisualized guided research on an approved topec in East European studies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
History : An overview of Jewish history from the period of Ezra and Nehemiah to the death of Hai Gaon, c. 1035. Focus on the experience of the Jews in Hellenistic and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Jewish sects, rabbinic literature in its various genres, the Karaite schism, and the rise of the Gaonate.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Fall)
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken JWST 216
History : The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Winter)
History : Analyses of primary sources (in translation) related to the social, economic and institutional history of the Jews in Poland and their place in the East European Jewish community. Topics include: the Jews during "The Flood'' (1648 - 1667), the communal crisis of the late 17th century, the Frankist movement, and Hasidism.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Winter)
Prerequisite: any course in Jewish history or East European History
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-307D
History : A historical examination of the history of the Hasidic Movement from its beginnings in 18th-century Poland to the present. Although emphasis will be placed on the social history of the movement, doctrinal developments will be examined as well.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 307 or a course in East-European history or consent of instructor
History : Seminar in Jewish history. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Students must register for both HIST 477D1 and HIST 477D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 477D1 and HIST 477D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 477D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 477D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 477D1 and HIST 477D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Jewish Studies : The history, literature and beliefs of Judaism's formative period. Both Biblical and non-Biblical materials will be studied. The Bible in the context of cognate literatures of the Ancient Near East; non-Biblical documents will be analysed for their bearing on the Jewish tradition.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Levy, B Barry (Fall)
All texts will be read in English
Jewish Studies : The history, literature and intellectual developments in Judaism during late antiquity. Special emphasis will be placed on rabbinic literature e.g. Babylonian Talmud, Palestinian Talmud, the midrashim both as literary works and for the light they shed on the events and ideologies of the period.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts and discussions will be in English
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken HIST 207
Jewish Studies : The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts will be read in English
Jewish Studies : Consideration of the history of the Holocaust and the literary, theological and cultural responses to the destruction of European Jewry.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Heller, Daniel (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 252 "The Holocaust"
Jewish Studies : The interaction of Jewish and American historical traditions in forging the American Jewish experience. The themes of acculturation, immigration and political behaviour will be treated.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Issues affecting American Jewry in the post-World War I era until today and the American Jewish community's responses to those issues. Special emphasis on understanding the community responses and reactions to developments in both the American society and in the Jewish world.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : A survey of Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative and Orthodox Judaism in North America. Emphasis is placed on the ideology forwarded by the movements since their inception.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The work of Mordecai Kaplan, followed by a study of several contemporary authors following feminist, mystical and postmodernist tendencies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The development of the Jewish labor and socialist movement in Eastern Europe from the last quarter of the 19th century to the Bolshevik Revolution.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The development of the Jewish labor and socialist movement in North America from the last quarter of the 19th century to WWI.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Using historical, sociological, literary and cultural sources, this course will examine various aspects of communal and individual life in the shtetl, the Jewish - or largely Jewish - town in Eastern Europe.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The rise and development of the various ideologies which attempt to define the Jews in historical, national and socio-cultural terms will be analyzed within the context of modern European nationalism. Selected texts of the Jewish Enlightenment, Science of Judaism, Peretz Smolenskin, Leon Pinsker, Simon Dubnow, Chaim Zhitlowsky and Ahad Ha-Am.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : An examination of the development of the Zionist idea, the most influential expression of modern Jewish nationalism, which led to the creation of the Jewish state. The transformation of elements of traditional Jewish messianism into a modern political ideology. Hibbat Zion, Political Zionism, Cultural and Synthetic Zionism will be discussed.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Heller, Daniel (Fall)
Recommended: JWST 365
Jewish Studies : In the forefront of the development of modern society in Europe and North America, the Jews have shown a distinct preference for the metropolis. The influence of Vienna and New York on the socio-cultural development of the Jews and on the Jewish contribution to general culture. The contributions of Schnitzler, Freud, Herzl and the New York intellectuals.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Students must register for both JWST 371D1 and JWST 371D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 371D1 and JWST 371D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Jewish Studies : See JWST 371D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: JWST 371D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 371D1 and JWST 371D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Religious Studies : An examination of curriculum developed for teaching prayer and fostering spirituality within Jewish educational frameworks. Excerpts from the liturgy of the Jewish people are studied with an emphasis on the theological, moral, and philosophical issues that they raise.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EDER 407.
History : An overview of Jewish history from the period of Ezra and Nehemiah to the death of Hai Gaon, c. 1035. Focus on the experience of the Jews in Hellenistic and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Jewish sects, rabbinic literature in its various genres, the Karaite schism, and the rise of the Gaonate.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Fall)
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken JWST 216
History : The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Winter)
History : A historical examination of the history of the Hasidic Movement from its beginnings in 18th-century Poland to the present. Although emphasis will be placed on the social history of the movement, doctrinal developments will be examined as well.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 307 or a course in East-European history or consent of instructor
Jewish Studies : The nature and history of Jewish law; literary and legal sources; selections in English from the Mishnah and Talmud, as well as selected post-Talmudic Texts, on such subjects as Contracts, Torts, Public Law and Family Law.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Hundert, Daniel Leib (Winter)
Jewish Studies : The history, literature and intellectual developments in Judaism during late antiquity. Special emphasis will be placed on rabbinic literature e.g. Babylonian Talmud, Palestinian Talmud, the midrashim both as literary works and for the light they shed on the events and ideologies of the period.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts and discussions will be in English
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken HIST 207
Jewish Studies : The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts will be read in English
Jewish Studies : An introduction to Jewish philosophy and thought from the Hellenic period (Philo) to the beginning of the modern era (Spinoza) focusing on topics such as prophecy and philosophy, God and the world; the Law as a canon of ethical rules and as a political constitution. survey the treatment of such issues by Jewish thinkers from Philo to Maimonides.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Haliva, Racheli (Fall)
Jewish Studies : Issues in the development of Biblical interpretation based on classical Jewish thought, heretical Jewish doctrines and contemporary Biblical criticism.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : A survey of Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative and Orthodox Judaism in North America. Emphasis is placed on the ideology forwarded by the movements since their inception.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The work of Mordecai Kaplan, followed by a study of several contemporary authors following feminist, mystical and postmodernist tendencies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Focuses on either a period, a current of thought or the work of a thinker in the history of Jewish thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, paying particular attention to the relationship of Jewish thinkers to intellectual trends in their respective cultural contexts. Contemporary Muslim and Christian theologians and philosophers.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Winter
Jewish Studies : Focuses on either a period, a current of thought or the work of a thinker in the history of Jewish thought from the Middle Ages to Modern Times, paying particular attention to the relationship of Jewish thinkers to intellectual trends in their respective cultural contexts. themes and concerns of Jewish theology and on Jewish responses to contemporary trends in European thought.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Winter
Jewish Studies : Topics in Jewish philosophy. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Kaplan, Lawrence (Winter)
All texts in English
Jewish Studies : Topics in Jewish philosophy. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts in English
Jewish Studies : The rise and development of the various ideologies which attempt to define the Jews in historical, national and socio-cultural terms will be analyzed within the context of modern European nationalism. Selected texts of the Jewish Enlightenment, Science of Judaism, Peretz Smolenskin, Leon Pinsker, Simon Dubnow, Chaim Zhitlowsky and Ahad Ha-Am.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : An examination of the development of the Zionist idea, the most influential expression of modern Jewish nationalism, which led to the creation of the Jewish state. The transformation of elements of traditional Jewish messianism into a modern political ideology. Hibbat Zion, Political Zionism, Cultural and Synthetic Zionism will be discussed.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Heller, Daniel (Fall)
Recommended: JWST 365
Jewish Studies : Study of the Moses Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, including such subjects as idolatry, repentance, and sacrifices, to torts, contracts, and public law.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : A study of the Bible commentaries of lbn Ezra.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Biblical Interpretation in the Guide of the Perplexed and related writings.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Requires Departmental approval
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 540
Jewish Studies : Studies of topics in Modern Jewish thought. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Fraenkel, Carlos; Kaplan, Lawrence (Winter)
Jewish Studies : A seminar devoted to literary portrayals of Jews by Jews and non-Jews from Biblical times to the present. Both positive and negative understandings of Jewish identity and Judaism will be studied.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Aberbach, David (Winter)
Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
Maximum enrolment 25
Jewish Studies : Language acquisition - introductory Hebrew.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Haliva, Racheli; Fima, Lea (Fall)
Students must register for both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Jewish Studies : See JWST 220D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Haliva, Racheli; Fima, Lea (Winter)
Prerequisite: JWST 220D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 220D1 and JWST 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Jewish Studies : A panoramic analysis of Israeli society through poetry, fiction, essays, interviews and testimonial narratives reflecting the country's historical, ideological and ethnic complexity. In English translation, we will read Oz, Amichai, Habibi, Har-Even and Yehoshua, as well as new authors from divergent ethnic, religious and ideological positions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts will be read in English
Jewish Studies : An introduction to charismatic phenomena in politics, religion and the media, and interpretation of them, from the ancient prophets to the modern period. Particular attention will be given to charisma as a general force for social change and also the lives of individuals such as Lenin, Krishnamurti and Chaplin.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : This course is designed to integrate students at various levels into one group with the aim of improving their basic language skills and preparing them for advanced Hebrew.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Fima, Lea (Fall)
Students must register for both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 together are equivalent to JWST 320
Jewish Studies : See JWST 320D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Fima, Lea (Winter)
Prerequisite: JWST 320D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
JWST 320D1 and JWST 320D2 together are equivalent to JWST 320
Jewish Studies : In-depth examination of selected Israeli novels written during the past fifty years of national formation and consolidation. Authors may include Agnon, Yehoshua, Oz, Shabtai, Shalev and others.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Halevi-Wise, Yael (Winter)
Jewish Studies : Survey of contemporary Israeli fiction that reflects Israel's cultural, political, and historical concerns. Authors may include Yehoshua, Oz, Librecht, Michael, Shamir, Castel-Bloom, and others.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Language acquisition - advanced Hebrew.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Fima, Lea (Fall)
Prerequisite: JWST 200 or JWST 320 or permission of the Hebrew Language Coordinator
Students must register for both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Jewish Studies : See JWST 340D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Fima, Lea (Winter)
Prerequisite: JWST 340D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 340D1 and JWST 340D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Jewish Studies : A post-advanced study of Hebrew language through an encounter with Israeli film, music and art as well as academic, journalistic, literary, and dramatic texts (all materials are in Hebrew).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
Jewish Studies : A post-advanced study of Hebrew language through an encounter with Israeli film, music and art as well as academic, journalistic, literary, and dramatic texts (all materials are in Hebrew).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Winter
Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
Jewish Studies : A post-advanced study of Hebrew language through an encounter with Israeli film, music and art as well as academic, journalistic, literary, and dramatic texts (all materials are in Hebrew).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
Jewish Studies : A post-advanced study of Hebrew language through an encounter with Israeli film, music and art as well as academic, journalistic, literary, and dramatic texts (all materials are in Hebrew).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Winter
Prerequisite: JWST 340 or permission of instructor
Jewish Studies : Readings from Holocaust literature in English translation. Writers include Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Elie Wiesel, Dan Pagis, Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, U.Z. Greenberg and others.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken this topic under JWST 381
Jewish Studies : Israeli literature in its original language with emphasis on in-depth literary analysis. Texts read in Hebrew; assignments may be written in English.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: Proficiency in Hebrew.
Jewish Studies : Discussion of loss in Jewish literature, particularly in Holocaust writings, and in various themes, in memories, dreams or in mysticism, for example. A basic introduction to clinical studies on grief will serve as background.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: Some prior related university course at 300 level or higher, e.g. literature, psychology or social work. Permission of instructor required
All texts in English
Jewish Studies : An introduction to the work of various modern 'national poets' - i.e. poets closely linked to national movements who expressed (or constructed) a particular national identity and whose work has lasting artistic value. These will include Mickiewicz of Poland, Tagore of India, Yeats of Ireland, and Bialik of pre-state Israel.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Aberbach, David (Fall)
Jewish Studies : A survey of modern Yiddish literature from its beginnings in the 1880s to the present. Particular attention will be paid to representative themes, forms, and literary techniques. Emphasis will be put on relations between literary texts and historical and literary contexts.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Frank, Esther (Winter)
Readings are in English
Jewish Studies : Introduction to basic structures of standard Yiddish. Intensive practice in speech and written structures. Emphasis on grammar, reading and writing. Selected readings to introduce Yiddish culture.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Respitz, Jane (Fall)
Students must register for both JWST 280D1 and JWST 280D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 280D1 and JWST 280D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
JWST 280D1 and JWST 280D2 together are equivalent to JWST 280
Jewish Studies : See JWST 280D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Respitz, Jane (Winter)
Prerequisite: JWST 280D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 280D1 and JWST 280D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
JWST 280D1 and JWST 280D2 together are equivalent to JWST 280
Jewish Studies : Within a comparative framework, this course examines cultural, thematic and artistic developments in the works of modern Jewish literature written in both Jewish and non-Jewish languages. For those without reading knowledge of the original, all works are available in English translation.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Frank, Esther (Fall)
All texts will be read in English
Jewish Studies : This course will focus on the Classical Period (1860 - 1915) in Yiddish literature. We will be reading landmark texts in English translation.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: Any literature course
Jewish Studies : Using historical, sociological, literary and cultural sources, this course will examine various aspects of communal and individual life in the shtetl, the Jewish - or largely Jewish - town in Eastern Europe.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Intermediate level of study of structures of standard Yiddish. Emphasis on reading, composition and conversation. Selected readings and visual materials to expand knowledge of Yiddish culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: JWST 280 or permission of instructor
Students must register for both JWST 380D1 and JWST 380D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 380D1 and JWST 380D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Jewish Studies : See JWST 380D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: JWST 380D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 380D1 and JWST 380D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Jewish Studies : A review of modern Yiddish literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Readings from Holocaust literature in English translation. Writers include Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Elie Wiesel, Dan Pagis, Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, U.Z. Greenberg and others.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken this topic under JWST 381
Jewish Studies : Introduction to representative novels written in America by Jews from the 1950s to the present. Issues of Jewish identity, ethnicity will inform our discussions. Focus on contemporary Jewish authors; consideration of the ways in which the complexities of American life are re-scripted in these novels.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Development of advanced Yiddish language skills in conversation and discussion, composition, and oral presentation. Particular emphasis will be placed on the reading and paraphrasing of a variety of literary texts.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: JWST 380 or permission of the instructor
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 480D1 and JWST 480D2
Jewish Studies : Additional development of advanced Yiddish language skills in conversation and discussion, composition, and oral presentation. Particular emphasis will be placed on the reading and paraphrasing of a variety of literary texts.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Winter
Prerequisite: JWST 380D1 and JWST 380D2; or permission of the instructor.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 480D1 and JWST 480D2
Jewish Studies : Individualized guided research on an approved topic in Yiddish literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Individualized guided research on an approved topic in Yiddish literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Indivisualized guided research on an approved topic in Yiddish literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Individualized guided research on an approved topic in Yiddish literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Supervised research in Yiddish literature. Work will focus on one genre, literary school or author.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Individualized guided research on an approved topic in Yiddish literature.
Terms: Summer 2015
Instructors: Frank, Esther (Summer)
Jewish Studies : Individualized guided research on an approved topic in Yiddish literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Religious Studies : An examination of approaches, strategies, and techniques of teaching the Holocaust, including methodologies for using the Holocaust as a basis for teaching about prejudice, cultural identity, racism, human rights and moral responsibility.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EDER 421.
History : The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Winter)
History : A historical examination of the history of the Hasidic Movement from its beginnings in 18th-century Poland to the present. Although emphasis will be placed on the social history of the movement, doctrinal developments will be examined as well.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 307 or a course in East-European history or consent of instructor
History : Seminar in Jewish history. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Students must register for both HIST 477D1 and HIST 477D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 477D1 and HIST 477D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 477D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 477D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 477D1 and HIST 477D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Jewish Studies : The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts will be read in English
Jewish Studies : Consideration of the history of the Holocaust and the literary, theological and cultural responses to the destruction of European Jewry.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Heller, Daniel (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 252 "The Holocaust"
Jewish Studies : An introduction to the portrayal of Jews in film from the 1920s to the present. Films to be studied will usually be based on literary texts in English, which will form part of the required study. Films in languages other than English will be subtitled.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Beitel, Garry (Winter)
Jewish Studies : Topics in Jewish Studies. Semesters will be devoted to specific issues and periods of the Jewish Experience since 1500 and the literature produced by Jews during this period.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Alitowski, Liane (Fall)
Jewish Studies : Topics in Jewish Studies. Semesters will be devoted to specific issues and periods of the Jewish Experience since 1500 and the literature produced by Jews during this period.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Alitowski, Liane (Winter)
Jewish Studies : Topics in Jewish Studies. Semesters will be devoted to specific issues and periods of the Jewish Experience since 1500 and the literature produced by Jews during this period.
Terms: Fall 2014, Winter 2015
Instructors: Assis, Amit (Fall) Alitowski, Liane (Winter)
Jewish Studies : Topics in Jewish Studies. Semesters will be devoted to specific issues and periods of the Jewish Experience since 1500 and the literature produced by Jews during this period.
Terms: Fall 2014, Winter 2015
Instructors: Frank, Esther (Fall) Holanda de Souza, Igor (Winter)
Jewish Studies : Within a comparative framework, this course examines cultural, thematic and artistic developments in the works of modern Jewish literature written in both Jewish and non-Jewish languages. For those without reading knowledge of the original, all works are available in English translation.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Frank, Esther (Fall)
All texts will be read in English
Jewish Studies : The development of the Jewish labor and socialist movement in Eastern Europe from the last quarter of the 19th century to the Bolshevik Revolution.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The development of the Jewish labor and socialist movement in North America from the last quarter of the 19th century to WWI.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Topics in Jewish philosophy. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts in English
Jewish Studies : Using historical, sociological, literary and cultural sources, this course will examine various aspects of communal and individual life in the shtetl, the Jewish - or largely Jewish - town in Eastern Europe.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The rise and development of the various ideologies which attempt to define the Jews in historical, national and socio-cultural terms will be analyzed within the context of modern European nationalism. Selected texts of the Jewish Enlightenment, Science of Judaism, Peretz Smolenskin, Leon Pinsker, Simon Dubnow, Chaim Zhitlowsky and Ahad Ha-Am.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : An examination of the development of the Zionist idea, the most influential expression of modern Jewish nationalism, which led to the creation of the Jewish state. The transformation of elements of traditional Jewish messianism into a modern political ideology. Hibbat Zion, Political Zionism, Cultural and Synthetic Zionism will be discussed.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Heller, Daniel (Fall)
Recommended: JWST 365
Jewish Studies : In the forefront of the development of modern society in Europe and North America, the Jews have shown a distinct preference for the metropolis. The influence of Vienna and New York on the socio-cultural development of the Jews and on the Jewish contribution to general culture. The contributions of Schnitzler, Freud, Herzl and the New York intellectuals.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Students must register for both JWST 371D1 and JWST 371D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 371D1 and JWST 371D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Jewish Studies : See JWST 371D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: JWST 371D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both JWST 371D1 and JWST 371D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Jewish Studies : Readings from Holocaust literature in English translation. Writers include Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Elie Wiesel, Dan Pagis, Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, U.Z. Greenberg and others.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken this topic under JWST 381
Jewish Studies : An intensive study of American Jewish novels from the 1900s to the present. Attention to representations of gender, class and Jewishness as seen in relation to changing notions of America. Focus on ways novels represent and wrestle with Jewish difference.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Frank, Esther (Winter)
Readings in English
Jewish Studies : Introduction to representative novels written in America by Jews from the 1950s to the present. Issues of Jewish identity, ethnicity will inform our discussions. Focus on contemporary Jewish authors; consideration of the ways in which the complexities of American life are re-scripted in these novels.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Discussion of loss in Jewish literature, particularly in Holocaust writings, and in various themes, in memories, dreams or in mysticism, for example. A basic introduction to clinical studies on grief will serve as background.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: Some prior related university course at 300 level or higher, e.g. literature, psychology or social work. Permission of instructor required
All texts in English
Jewish Studies : An introduction to the work of various modern 'national poets' - i.e. poets closely linked to national movements who expressed (or constructed) a particular national identity and whose work has lasting artistic value. These will include Mickiewicz of Poland, Tagore of India, Yeats of Ireland, and Bialik of pre-state Israel.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Aberbach, David (Fall)
Jewish Studies : Studies of topics in Modern Jewish thought. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Fraenkel, Carlos; Kaplan, Lawrence (Winter)
Jewish Studies : Individualized guided research on an approved topic in East European studies.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Heller, Daniel (Fall)
Jewish Studies : Indivisualized guided research on an approved topec in East European studies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Political Science : Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Norman, Julie (Winter)
Prerequisite: 160-243 prior to 1997-98; or POLI 244
Note: The field is International Politics.
Sociology (Arts) : Understanding of contemporary North American Jewry using findings of sociology and other social sciences. Social, cultural, and political issues of concern to the Jewish community. Specific characteristics of Jewish life in Canada, and Québec in particular, in comparison to the American Jewish experience.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Weinfeld, Morton (Winter)
History : An overview of Jewish history from the period of Ezra and Nehemiah to the death of Hai Gaon, c. 1035. Focus on the experience of the Jews in Hellenistic and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Jewish sects, rabbinic literature in its various genres, the Karaite schism, and the rise of the Gaonate.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Fall)
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken JWST 216
History : The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Winter)
Jewish Studies : The nature and history of Jewish law; literary and legal sources; selections in English from the Mishnah and Talmud, as well as selected post-Talmudic Texts, on such subjects as Contracts, Torts, Public Law and Family Law.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Hundert, Daniel Leib (Winter)
Jewish Studies : The history, literature and intellectual developments in Judaism during late antiquity. Special emphasis will be placed on rabbinic literature e.g. Babylonian Talmud, Palestinian Talmud, the midrashim both as literary works and for the light they shed on the events and ideologies of the period.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts and discussions will be in English
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken HIST 207
Jewish Studies : The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts will be read in English
Jewish Studies : A brief introduction to the nature and history of Jewish law. Topics include: redemption of hostages; abortion; death and dying.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : A study of Judaism and the Occult.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : The structure, contents, foci and ideological assumptions of Jewish prayer. Texts will reflect the different approaches to prayer in Biblical, rabbinic, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on the evolution of the classical Hebrew prayer book (Siddur) and the Passover Haggadah.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Hebrew
Jewish Studies : An introduction to the study of Rabbinic texts.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Assis, Amit (Winter)
All readings in English
Jewish Studies : Topics in Jewish philosophy. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Kaplan, Lawrence (Winter)
All texts in English
Jewish Studies : Topics in Jewish philosophy. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
All texts in English
Jewish Studies : An introduction to Bava Kamma, in particular to Talmudic dialectic and interpretation; Talmudic law of torts; damages committed by one's self or one's property; negligence and absolute liability.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : An introduction to Bava Metzia. Talmudic texts covering a wide range of subjects.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Kaplan, Lawrence (Fall)
Jewish Studies : Study of the Moses Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, including such subjects as idolatry, repentance, and sacrifices, to torts, contracts, and public law.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Advanced level work on one aspect of Jewish Bible interpretation in late antiquity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Issues, techniques and texts of Jewish Bible study in medieval France and Germany; Rashi, Qara, Rashbam, the Tosafists, etc.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : A study of the Bible commentaries of lbn Ezra.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jewish Studies : Biblical Interpretation in the Guide of the Perplexed and related writings.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Requires Departmental approval
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 540
Jewish Studies : Study of the complex interaction between Jewish law and both Canadian and American law in the area of marriage and divorce.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Many of the courses in Jewish Studies are related to other departments, e.g., History, Religious Studies. There are also related courses in other departments which students specializing in certain areas of Jewish Studies might be encouraged to include in their programs, e.g., Classical Greek, Arabic, theories of literature, etc.
The following History department courses may be used as Jewish Studies courses in the Department of Jewish Studies programs. These courses have been included in the areas of study course lists above.
History : A survey, using translated primary and selected secondary sources, of the ways in which Jews represented Christians from late antiquity to the present. Legal, liturgical, literary and other sources are examined with the focus on the Medieval and Early Modern periods.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
Maximum 25 students.
For first year students only.
History : An overview of Jewish history from the period of Ezra and Nehemiah to the death of Hai Gaon, c. 1035. Focus on the experience of the Jews in Hellenistic and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Jewish sects, rabbinic literature in its various genres, the Karaite schism, and the rise of the Gaonate.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Fall)
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken JWST 216
History : The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Winter)
History : Analyses of primary sources (in translation) related to the social, economic and institutional history of the Jews in Poland and their place in the East European Jewish community. Topics include: the Jews during "The Flood'' (1648 - 1667), the communal crisis of the late 17th century, the Frankist movement, and Hasidism.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Hundert, Gershon (Winter)
Prerequisite: any course in Jewish history or East European History
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-307D
History : A historical examination of the history of the Hasidic Movement from its beginnings in 18th-century Poland to the present. Although emphasis will be placed on the social history of the movement, doctrinal developments will be examined as well.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 307 or a course in East-European history or consent of instructor
History : Seminar in Jewish history. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Students must register for both HIST 477D1 and HIST 477D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 477D1 and HIST 477D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
History : See HIST 477D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Prerequisite: HIST 477D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 477D1 and HIST 477D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms