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Jewish Studies Courses


for exact course numbers and descriptions, please, go to:
http://www.temple.edu/bulletin/ugradbulletin/ucd/ucd_jewishstds.html

**New Gen Ed course for Fall 08:  Jewish Identity and Race**

Hebrew Language Classes for Jewish Studies Majors and Minors 

[link to course descriptions]
- Hebrew Elements I
- Hebrew Elements II
- Intermediate I
- Intermediate II

Jewish Studies Classes:

•  What is Judaism?
•  Intro to the Bible
•  Jewish Secularism/Jewish Civilization I
•  Jewish Secularism/Jewish Civilization II
•  Antisemitism, Holocaust, Racism
•  Jewish Diaspora/Survey Jewish History
•  Jewish Humor Past and Present
•  Love Themes in Hebrew Poetry
•  Honors Special Topics

•  Topics in Jewish Studies
•  Independent Study
•  Internship
•  Jewish Experience in America
•  The Image of the Jews in the Motion Picture
•  Women and Judaism
•  Israel and the Middle East
•  Israel , History Politics and Society
•  Middle Eastern Literature in Translation
•  Literature and Art of the Holocaust
•  Jews, America and Sports
•  Secular Study of Ancient Jewish History: Between Torah and Talmud
•  Philosophies of Judaism
•  Modern Jewish History   

•  Foundations of Judaism
•  Modern Trends in Judaism
•  Ancient Israel , History, Literature, Religion
•  Dead Sea Scrolls
•  Judaism and Literature

Courses in other departments that count for Jewish Studies:

 African American Studies
•  Introduction to Afro-Jewish Studies (pending university approval)

History

•  Sects, Cults and Establishments
•  History of Nazi Germany
•  Getting Crusaded: Making Europe , Making Orientalism
•  Love, Money, War: Medieval Style 

 Critical Languages
•  Topics in Hebrew Culture

Film Studies
• International Cinema

German
•  Fin-de-Siecle Vienna German Culture
•  Kafka

Russian

• Russian Jewish Literature