Schusterman Center for Israel Studies

Debbie Berechman — International Business School
Analyzes Israel's business climate, its economy, markets, and institutions, in the broader context of its history, politics, culture, and society. Explores the drivers of entrepreneurship and innovation in a dynamic startup ecosystem. Learn about doing business in Israel either for a potential internship opportunity or as a future global business leader. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. 

Yehudah Mirsky — Near Eastern & Judaic Studies
The creation of the State of Israel is one of the most surprising things in the modern world. How did it happen? How has it endured? What does its story tell us about politics, history, identity, religion, socialism, nationalism, capitalism, in short, about our world?

Ilana Szobel — Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
An exploration of poetics and identity in modern Hebrew literature. By offering a feminist and psychoanalytic reading of various Hebrew texts, this seminar explores questions of personal and national identity, otherness, visibility, and marginality in the Israeli context.

Ilana Szobel — Near Eastern & Judaic Studies
Examines trends and myths in Israeli culture. Looking at both central, established and edgy, new stories, poems and films, the course examines various aspects of the way Israelis talk to each other and the world, and presents a multilayered--often conflicting--picture of Israeli culture through different voices and mediums.

Yuval Evri — Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Examines the history of Israel/Palestine during the 20th century by focusing on several formative moments that took place pre and post 1948. It reexamines key issues that emerged around each of those events and explores the implications they had on the formation of Israeli and Palestinian societies.

Yuval Evri — Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Explores the different ways in which boundaries have been constructed and imagined in the cultural scene in Israel/Palestine from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. It traces different cultural arenas that emerged during this period using examples from literature, cinema, music and visual arts – exploring the Hebrew-Arabic contact zones, religious and secular borderlands, the national divide between Jews and Arabs, and the fluid borderland across the gender divide.

Jonathan Krasner — Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Examines why we teach history, how students learn history, the uses of public history, and what history means within a Jewish context. Special emphasis is placed on teaching with primary sources, digital resources, and oral history. Includes an oral history project in cooperation with the Jewish Women's Archive and Keshet (a Jewish LGBTQ organization), and an introduction to Holocaust education with Facing History and Ourselves. May be repeated once for credit with permission of the instructor.

Aliza Brosh —Near Eastern & Judaic Studies
For students with no previous knowledge and those with a minimal background. Intensive training in the basics of Hebrew grammar, listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Several sections will be offered. Usually offered every semester.

Esther Shorr —Near Eastern & Judaic Studies
Continuation of HBRW 10a, employing the same methods. Intensive training in Hebrew grammar, listening, comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Several sections offered every semester.

Guy Antebi — Near Eastern & Judaic Studies 
Continuation of HBRW 10a, employing the same methods. Intensive training in Hebrew grammar, listening, comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Several sections offered every semester.

Sara Hascal — Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Provides students with tools and competence to deal with the Israeli business community. For advanced-intermediate Hebrew students who wish to gain cultural understanding and business language speaking skills. Usually offered every second year.