Interested in Jewish Studies? Want to learn more about the program? You are in luck! All students are invited to participate in the first ever:
Jewish Studies Open House
Monday, October 17th - Friday, November 4th
During Open House, you can visit a Jewish studies course, meet the faculty, and learn about becoming a Jewish studies major or minor!
Visit a Jewish Studies Course
As a courtesy, please identify yourself to the course instructor(s) before class begins so that they know you are present. We also ask that you stay for the entire class period so as not to disturb the lecture by leaving early. Visitors are invited to attend the following classes:
HEBR 1, Instruction in the Hebrew Language
Course Description: Speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing fundamentals. The use of Modern Hebrew is encouraged through classroom practice supplemented by language laboratory work.
Instructor: Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
Day(s): Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays
Time: 9:30AM - 10:40AM
Location: Jack Baskin Engineering 372
History 70A, Modern European History, 1500-1789
Course Description: A survey of economic, social, and political history of Europe since the late 15th century: 1500–1789.
Instructor: Bruce Thompson
Day(s): Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays
Time: 2:00PM - 3:30PM
Location: Stevenson Academic 150
History 172B, German Film, 1919–1945
Course Description: Introduction to German films from 1919 to 1945. Through combination of movies and documentaries, gain insight into political, economic, social, and cultural conditions of Weimar and Nazi Germany.
Instructor: Edward Kehler
Day(s): Thursdays
Time: 6:00PM - 9:00PM
Location: Social Sciences 2 Room 75
HIS 178A, European Intellectual History: The Enlightenment
Course Description: Study of European thought and literature from Hobbes and Swift to Rousseau and Goethe. Focuses on relation of ideas to their social and cultural context. Special attention to traditions of religious conflict and criticism rising from the Protestant Reformation; to the discovery of the world beyond Europe; and to the intellectual and cultural roots of the French Revolution.
Instructor: Nathaniel Deutsch
Day(s): Tuesdays and Thursdays
Time: 10:00AM - 11:45AM
Location: Porter Academic 148
HIS 185I, Latin American Jewish History in the Modern Period
Course Description: Explores Jewish immigration settlement and identity negotiation in Latin America from the mid-19th Century to the present.
Instructor: Paula Daccarett
Day(s): Mondays, Wednesdays
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:45 pm
Location: Cowell Academic 113
HIS 196N, Eastern European Jewish Social History
Course Description: Study of 19th- and 20th-century Eastern European and Russian Jewish social history.
Instructor: Paula Daccarett
Day(s): Tuesdays
Time: 10:00AM - 01:00PM
Location: Cowell Academic 216
LTMO 144A, Jewish Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Urban Life
Course Description: Focuses on modern Jewish diaspora, ethnicity, and urban life. Satisfies the Modern Literature concentration.
Instructor: Bruce Thompson
Day(s): Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:40 pm
Location: Crown Classroom 208
MUSC 80I, Music of Modern Israel
Course Description: Historical, musicological, and anthropological study of the many (and often conflicting) worlds brought together by Israeli popular and art music: Jewish and Arabic traditions, Western ideals, and modern beats.
Instructor: Avi Tchamni
Time:12:00PM - 1:45PM
Location: Music Center 131
Meet the Faculty
Paula Daccarett: Jewish modernity, Long 19th century Europe/Mediterranean, Migration to Latin America, Levantine Cultures/Spaces
Nathaniel Deutsch: Currently examining the history of early Jewish ethnography
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin: Hebrew language and culture; biblical Hebrew syntax and semantics; the Hebrew Bible; Jewish thought; psycholinguistics; second language acquisition and bilingualism.
Bruce A Thompson: European intellectual and cultural history, French history, Jewish intellectual and cultural history, British and Irish history, history of cinema, history of espionage, environmental history.
Avi Tchamni: Composition, Jewish music, computer and electronic music, Middle Eastern music, theory, algorithmic music and generative musical syntax, orchestration, ethnomusicology.
Learn About Becoming a Jewish Studies Major or Minor
All students are invited to meet with the Jewish Studies Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Stephanie Sawyer, during drop-in advising hours.
During drop-in advising hours students will have the opportunity to learn about the Jewish studies major or minor requirements, formulate a plan of study to achieve their long term educational goals, and acquire assistance with their course selection, major planning.
