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Spring 2012 Course Brochure

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Courses


Spring 2012

Course syllabi can be found in LATTE.

Professor Course Number
Course Name
Abusch NEJS 101b
Old Babylonian Texts
Abusch NEJS 202b
Akkadian Mythological/Religious Texts II
Decter NEJS 140a
Under Crescent and Cross: Jews in the Middle Ages
Decter NEJS 177b
Judeo Arabic Literature
El-Tobgui ARBC 103b
Advanced Literary Arabic II
El-Tobgui ARBC 40b Advanced Intermediate Literary Arabic
Feige NEJS 189b
Memory Wars: Collective Memory, Political Myths and History
Fishman NEJS 173b American Jewish Writers in the Twentieth Century
Freeze
NEJS 141a
Russian Jews in the Twentieth Century
Freeze WMGS 5a
Women and Gender in Culture and Society
Karjala ARBC 20b (sec. 1) Continuing Literary Arabic
Karjala ARBC 20b (sec. 2) Continuing Literary Arabic
Kellman
NEJS 171a
Modern Jewish Literatures: Text, Image, and Context
Kellman YDSH 20b
ContinuingYiddish 
Kellman YDSH 40a
AdvancedYiddish
Kimelman
HUM 10a
The Western Canon: Understanding Evil and Human Destiny
Kimelman NEJS 126b Agadic Literature: The Ethics of the Fathers
Levisohn
NEJS 235b
Philosophy of Jewish Education
Lumbard NEJS 186a
Introduction to the Qur'an
Lumbard NEJS 195a Muhammad: The History of a Prophet
Makiya IMES 105a
War and Revolution in the Middle East
Makiya NEJS 197b Political Cultures of the Middle East
Rivo NEJS 181a
Jews on Screen: Cohen's Fire Sale to the Coen Brothers
Sarna NEJS 162a American Judaism
Sheppard
NEJS 135a
The Modern Jewish Experience
Smith
NEW!
Exhibiting Religion
Szobel NEJS 174b
Line of Resistance: Israeli Women Writers on War and Peace
Szobel NEJS 177a
The Holocaust in Israeli and Jewish Literature
Wright NEJS 104a Comparative Semitic Languages
Wright NEJS 113a
The Bible in Aramaic