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
Biblical and Ancient
NEW COURSE
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 1: Pentateuch and Former Prophets
ANE 120A / RELIGION 1220A / HDS 1102
Andrew Teeter
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
Jewish Magic and Folklore: Messages from beyond the Mountains of Darkness
FOLKMYTH 140
Daniel Frim
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
Jewish Magic and Folklore: Messages from beyond the Mountains of Darkness
FOLKMYTH 140
Daniel Frim
Hebrew (Classical and Modern) and Yiddish Language
NEW COURSE
Advanced Modern Hebrew I
MOD-HEB 130A / HDS 4042
Course Head: Nader Uthman
Instructor: Romy Neumark
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
Religious Dimensions in Human Experience: Apocalypse, Home, Medicine, Music, Sacrifice, Sports
RELIGION 16 / ANTHRO 1475 / HDS 3160
David L. Carrasco
NEW COURSE
Theory in the Shadow of History: Literature and Culture in the Writings of Polish Thinkers
SLAVIC 279
Aleksandra Kremer
NEW COURSE
GENED
How the Germans Embraced Hitler: Politics, Culture & the Death of Democracy in Germany, 1918-1945
GENED 1203
David Spreen