Browsing Stern College Syllabi -- Spring and Fall 2021-2022 courses --- JHIS (Jewish History) by Title
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ARTS1975H/JPHI4933H/JHIS4934: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts: Torah as Art in Medieval Ashkenaz
(2021-01)Jewish illuminated manuscripts are among the treasured artifacts that have survived the trials of Jewish history and whose imagery provides a window into the Torah worldview of the Jews that commissioned them hundreds of ... -
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 ... -
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 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 1150 - M History of Jerusalem
(2021-09)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 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 1201 - L Classical Jewish History
(2021-09)This course will survey the history of the Jews during the Diaspora, Second Temple and Rabbinic periods (600BCE-600CE). This period is witness to the development of many aspects of Judaism as we know it today, such as, the ... -
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 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 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 1327H - NPG The Tosafists
(2021-09)The literary and juridical creativity of Ashkenazic scholarship in the 12th and 13th centuries. 2.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours -
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 ... -
JHIS 1335 - K The Jews of Medieval Spain
(2021-09)This course will investigate the cultural history of the Jews of Spain (the Sephardim), from the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711 until the expulsion of 1492. Medieval Spain, with its vibrant Muslim and ... -
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 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 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, ... -
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 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 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 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, ...