Courses – Fall 2025

Course listings as of March 17, 2025. 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.
Note that courses taught by Visiting Professors will be added to the Course Catalog and to this page as they become available.

First Year Seminars

NEW COURSE
FIRST YEAR SEMINAR

Antisemitism, Then and Now

FYSEMR 73V

Derek Penslar

Biblical and Ancient

NEW COURSE

Archaeology of the Levant

ANE 115

Andrew Danielson

NEW COURSE

Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 1: Pentateuch and Former Prophets

ANE 120A / RELIGION 1220A / HDS 1102

Andrew Teeter

NEW COURSE

The Book of Daniel

HEBREW 131 / RELIGION 1261 / HDS 1630

Andrew Teeter

NEW COURSE

What is Biblical Hebrew?

CLAS-HEB 138 / HDS 1628

Vladimir Olivero

NEW COURSE

The Binding of Isaac (Aqedah): Seminar

HEBREW 238 / HDS 1808

Jon Levenson

NEW COURSE

Ancient Jewish Wisdom Literature

HEBREW 256 / HDS 1423

Jon Levenson

Classical and Medieval Jewish Literature, History, and Culture

NEW COURSE

The History of the Book: Using Harvard’s Greatest Treasures to Study the Material Text

NEC 107 / COMPLIT 119X / RELIGION 119

David Stern

NEW COURSE

The Jewish Library: Four Jewish Classics

JEWISHST 131 /  RELIGION 1262

David Stern

NEW COURSE

From Type to Self in the Middle Ages

COMPLIT 157 / RELIGION 1446

Luis Girón Negrón

NEW COURSE

What’s Love Got to Do With It; Love Poetry of the Middle Ages and Early Modernity

COMPLIT 193 / HDS 3725

Luis Girón Negrón

Modern Jewish Literature, History, and Culture

NEW COURSE

Jews in the Modern World

HIST 39

Derek Penslar

NEW COURSE

Yiddish Literature and Culture in America

YIDDISH 112

Justin Cammy

NEW COURSE

Jews and Race

HDS 1655

Shaul Magid

Hebrew (Classical and Modern) and Yiddish Language

NEW COURSE

Elementary Classical Hebrew I

CLAS-HEB AA / HDS 4010A

Vladimir Olivero

NEW COURSE

Intermediate Classical Hebrew I

CLAS-HEB 120A / HDS 4020

Vladimir Olivero

NEW COURSE

Rapid Reading Classical Hebrew I: Pentateuch

CLAS-HEB 130AR / HDS 1625

Vladimir Olivero

NEW COURSE

What is Biblical Hebrew?

CLAS-HEB 138 / HDS 1628

Vladimir Olivero

NEW COURSE

Elementary Modern Hebrew I

MOD-HEB BA / HDS 4015A

Ran Bechor

NEW COURSE

Intermediate Modern Hebrew I

MOD-HEB 120A / HDS 4040

Ran Bechor

NEW COURSE

Advanced Modern Hebrew I

MOD-HEB 130A / HDS 4042

Course Head: Nader Uthman

Instructor: Romy Neumark

NEW COURSE

Elementary Yiddish I

YIDDISH AA / HDS 4071

Sara Feldman

NEW COURSE

Intermediate Yiddish I

YIDDISH BA / HDS 4073

Sara Feldman

NEW COURSE

Advanced Yiddish I

YIDDISH CA / HDS 4075

Sara Feldman

Jewish Law (Harvard Law School)

NEW COURSE

Advanced Topics in Jewish Law and Legal Theory

HLS Reading Group

HLS TBA

Noah Feldman

Additional Courses Relevant to Jewish Studies

NEW COURSE

Elementary Geez

GEEZ AA

John Mugane

NEW COURSE

Religious Dimensions in Human Experience: Apocalypse, Home, Medicine, Music, Sacrifice, Sports

RELIGION 16 / ANTHRO 1475 / HDS 3160

David L. Carrasco

NEW COURSE

World War II in Image, Text, and Sound

HIST-LIT 90

Jules Riegel

NEW COURSE

Travelers in the Byzantine World

HIST 132 (SEMINAR)

Dimiter Angelov

NEW COURSE

Law and Politics in Multicultural Democracies

GOV 94OF

Ofrit Liviatan

NEW COURSE

Exploring the Quran

RELIGION 1803 / HDS 3339

Mohsen Goudarzi

NEW COURSE

Religion and Popular Culture in Modern Europe

HIST 1953

Alison Frank Johnson