Stern College Syllabi -- Spring and Fall 2021-2022 courses --- JHIS (Jewish History)
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JHIS 4932: Jewish historical thought
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)¶We take Jewish history for granted. We assume that we know what we mean when we talk about history, but do we? As one of the longest “histories” of any group in the human family, Jewish history spans unimaginable epochs ... -
JHIS 1401: Modern Jewish History
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)¶Modern Jewish history – what is it? When does it begin? Why is it important? While for other eras of Jewish history, these questions seem self-explanatory, in the case of the modern period they have sparked no small ... -
JHIS 1344: Jewish Exegetical Polemics
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)¶This course explores the strategies Jews employed in response to Christian interpretations of Tanakh. The course traces the conflict between the two religions from its beginnings until modern times, concentrating ... -
JHIS 1329H: Topics in the History of Halakhah
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)This course will analyze several variegated topics related to מסכת עבודה זרה , using a wide range of texts of the rishonim. Through careful consideration of the historical and conceptual underpinnings of these works and ... -
HIST 2303: History of Palestine, 1917-1948
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)The course will examine the history of modern Jewish settlement in Palestine under the Ottoman rule and the British Mandate, up to the establishment of the state in 1948. We will begin with a discussion of Zionism, its ... -
JHIS 1301: Medieval Jewish History
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-01)COURSE DESCRIPTION: Studying Jewish history provides students with an awareness of the different events that have befallen the Jewish people within the Land of Israel and in the countries of their sojourns in the Diaspora. ... -
JHIS 1402: Modern Jewish History
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-01)COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is a survey of the history of the Jews and Judaism in the modern age, from 1650 to the present. The course will examine the very different ways in which Jews reacted to modernity in ... -
JHIS 1486: The Holocaust
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-01)“I saw that the deeds of the enemy were evil beyond the power of the imagination. The power of the imagination is stronger than the power of deeds, except for the evil of the nations, which goes beyond all imagination.” ... -
JHIS 4937-N Responses to the Holocaust
(2021-09)Course Description: In this course, we will explore not the mass murder of East European Jews during the Holocaust, but rather the various reactions of Jews living under Nazi rule to the ensuing catastrophe. Specifically, ... -
JHIS 1401 Modern Jewish HIstory
(2021-09)Course Description: This course is a survey of the history of the Jews and Judaism in the modern age, from 1650 to the present. The course will examine the very different ways in which Jews reacted to modernity in Western, ... -
HIST 2304 - B Modern Israel / JHIS 1511 - B Modern Israel
(2021-01)COURSE DESCRIPTION: While the course will address the topic of Israel and the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict, our discussions will include topics of social, cultural, and political history of Israel since 1948 ... -
JHIS 1486 - D1 The Holocaust & Rescue
(2021-01)Course Objective: The nature of Nazi anti-Semitism; the evolution of the Holocaust to the mass murder of Europe’s Jews; Jewish responses, and the various rescue attempts, including of non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews. -
JHIS 1452 - M History of Polish Jewry
(2021-01)Course Overview: In this course, we will examine the history of East European Jewry from its communal origins in the thirteenth century through 1945. Special emphasis will be placed upon religious, intellectual, cultural, ... -
JHIS 1150 - M History of Jerusalem
(2021-01)Course Description This course surveys the religious, political, and cultural history of Jerusalem over three millennia. The course content will focus on the transformation of sacred space as reflected by literary and ... -
JHIS 1235 - K Dead Sea Scrolls
(2021-01)Welcome to the exciting world of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This archaeological treasure has given us a window into the critical junction between the Bible and the Mishnah. Some of these texts may seem strange and surprising ... -
JHIS 1321 - F Jews In Christendom
(2021-01)In this course we will explore the experiences of Jews in the Middle Ages in the orbits of Christianity. We will examine Jewish cultural and intellectual developments in the contexts in which they occur as well as study ... -
JHIS 1401 - N Modern Jewish History
(2021-01)Modern Jewish history – what is it? When does it begin? Why is it important? While for other eras of Jewish history, these questions seem self-explanatory, in the case of the modern period they have sparked no small amount ... -
JHIS 1001 - J Survey Jewish History
(2021-01)Course Objectives: Gain broad based knowledge of Jewish History from the Persian period, the Hellenistic Era, the 2nd Commonwealth (בית שני ), the period of the Mishna and Gemara ___ Political, social, economic, and ... -
JHIS 1415 - E History of Zionism
(2021-01)Rise and development of modern Jewish nationalism against the backdrop of contemporary Western civilization and the scope of Jewish history; writings of major Zionist ideologues; role of Zionism within the major Diaspora ... -
JHIS 4930 – K Topics: Jewish Presence in Latin America
(2021-01)This course explores Jewish immigration, settlement, cultural production and religious life from the earliest instances of European conquest and colonization of the Americas until the present day. The Americas are not just ...
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