Courses – Fall 2022

Course listings as of April 3, 2024. Course offerings and times may change.
Please check the Website of the Registrar’s Office of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for updated information

Freshman Seminars

Biblical and Ancient

NEW COURSE

Bible and Empire

ANE 197 / HDS 1440

Julia Rhyder

NEW COURSE

Genesis: Narrative Artistry and Theological Meanings

RELIGION 1134/ HDS 1417

Jon Levenson

NEW COURSE

Hebrew Bible Studies: Past and Future Trajectories

ANE 222 / HDS 1154

Julia Rhyder

NEW COURSE

Judaism and the Making of Christianity

RELIGION 1300/ HDS 1772

Annette Reed

NEW COURSE

Mesopotamian Textual Traditions and the Hebrew Bible

ANE 202/ ANE 302/ HDS 1119

Gojko Barjamovic

NEW COURSE

The Book of Proverbs: Seminar

HEBREW 257 / HDS 1438

Jon Levenson

Classical and Medieval Jewish Literature, History, and Culture

NEW COURSE

From Type to Self in the Middle Ages

COMPLIT 157

Luis Girón-Negrón

NEW COURSE

Josephus

JEWISHST 129 / HDS 1468

Shaye Cohen

NEW COURSE

The Cairo Genizot and their Literature

JEWISHST 156

Miriam Goldstein

Modern Jewish Literature, History, and Culture

NEW COURSE

Advanced Seminar in Modern Hebrew: Israeli Culture: Cinema & Literature

MOD-HEB 241R / HDS 4045

Irit Aharony

NEW COURSE

Jew Theory

COMPLIT 224 / HDS 1654 /JEWISHST 224

Saul Zaritt

NEW COURSE

The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1700-1939

HIST 1075

Scott Ury

NEW COURSE

The Politics of Yiddish

COMPLIT 107 / YIDDISH 107

Saul Zaritt

Hebrew (Classical and Modern) and Yiddish Language

NEW COURSE

Elementary Classical Hebrew I

CLAS-HEB AA / HDS 4010A

Julia Rhyder

NEW COURSE

Intermediate Classical Hebrew I

CLAS-HEB 120A / HDS 4020

Julia Rhyder

NEW COURSE

Rapid Reading Classical Hebrew I

CLAS-HEB 130AR / HDS 1625

Julia Rhyder

NEW COURSE

Elementary Modern Hebrew I

MOD-HEB BA / HDS 4015A

Irit Aharony

NEW COURSE

Intermediate Modern Hebrew I

MOD-HEB 120A / HDS 4040

Irit Aharony

NEW COURSE

Advanced Modern Hebrew I

MOD-HEB 130A / HDS 4042

Irit Aharony

NEW COURSE

Elementary Yiddish I

YIDDISH AA

Sara Feldman

NEW COURSE

Intermediate Yiddish I

YIDDISH BA

Sara Feldman

NEW COURSE

Advanced Yiddish I

YIDDISH CA

Sara Feldman

Jewish Law (Harvard Law School)

NEW COURSE

Advanced Topics in Jewish Law: The Law of Literature

HLS Reading Group

Noah Feldman

NEW COURSE

Change in Jewish Law

HLS Reading Group

Miryam Segal

NEW COURSE

(Jewish) Law and Story

HLS

Miryam Segal

Additional Courses Relevant to Jewish Studies

NEW COURSE

Benjamin’s Paris

HIST 15D

Peter Gordon

NEW COURSE

The Holocaust in Polish Memory and Culture

SLAVIC 171

Aleksandra Kremer

NEW COURSE

Law and Politics in Multicultural Democracies

GOV 94OF

 Ofrit Liviatan