Jewish Studies
Undergraduate Concentration
Jewish studies at Clark is designed to introduce the student to the major historical and religious trends in Jewish civilization since its inception in antiquity. The courses reflect the broad range of developments both encountered and fostered by the Jewish people including their contact with other world civilizations, classical literature, social and religious institutions, as well as their interaction with the modern world. In these courses, Jews and Judaism are studied both in their own internal context and as paradigms for wider trends in history and religion.
Olga Litvak, Ph.D.
Program Faculty
Debórah Dwork, Ph.D.
Everett Fox, Ph.D.
Shelly Tenenbaum, Ph.D.
Courses
(Click on "Title of Course" or "Course Number" to sort by that category)
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Religious Experience in the Ancient World/Lecture, Discussion
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CLAS267 |
Elementary Hebrew I/ Lecture, Discussion
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HEBR101 |
Elementary Hebrew II/Lecture
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HEBR102 |
Intermediate Hebrew/Lecture, Discussion
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HEBR103 |
Intermediate-Advanced Hebrew/Lecture, Discussion
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HEBR104 |
Advanced Hebrew/Lecture, Discussion
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HEBR105 |
Eastern European Jewish History and Culture Between the Two World Wars
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HGS212 |
Jews in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America/Lecture, Discussion
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HIST152 |
Holocaust: Agency and Action Lecture, Discussion
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HIST175 |
The Sephardi Jews in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America/Lecture, Discussion
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HIST252 |
Jews in Modern Europe: From Expulsion to Emancipation/Lecture, Discussion
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HIST255 |
Jewish Responses to Modernity: The Enlightenment and Its Critics/Seminar
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HIST270 |
Modern Jewish History and Thought/Lecture, Discussion
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HIST276 |
Eastern European Jewish Diaspora: Culture and Community in Twentieth Century US, USSR and Israel/Lecture, Discussion
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HIST283 |
Yiddish Literature and the History of Jewish Secular Culture/Lecture
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HIST292 |
Reading the Narratives of the Hebrew Bible
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JS117 |
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible II: Prophecy and Poetry/Lecture, Discussion
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JS118 |
Laws and Legends, Maxims and Mystical Tales
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JS121 |
The Midrashic Tradition/Lecture, Discussion
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JS123 |
Suffering and Evil in Jewish Tradition/Lecture, Discussion
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JS130 |
Jerusalem in History and Imagination/Lecture, Discussion
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JS150 |
The Jewish Experience/Lecture, Discussion
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JS174 |
American Jewish Life/Variable Format
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JS203 |
Women in Jewish Culture/Lecture, Discussion
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JS258 |
Jews and Christians in the Ancient World
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JS262 |
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About Jewish Studies
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