AP/JWST 4631 3.00 Nazi Art Crime: Theft, Recovery, and Restitution

This seminar examines why, during the Nazi era, more than 5 million artworks illegally changed hands—a disproportionate number of them being works stolen from Jewish collectors—and how come it has been so challenging to restitute these pieces to their rightful owners. This course is divided into two parts: a study of the complex history of Nazi-art […]

AP/JWST 4828 3.00 Complex Relationships in the Contemporary Culture of Israel

This course examines a collage of complex relationships and emergent cultural identities in Israel. Readings relate to Israel’s roots, cultural milieu, contemporary and classical literary canon. Readings, film subtitles, and analysis are in English, peppered with selected translations of Hebrew terminology. Among the relationships considered are: relationships with individuals: love, poets and prophets; relationships with […]

AP/JWST 4824 3.00 Imagining Anne Frank: The Girl, the Diary, the Afterlives

Almost seventy-five years ago, in June of 1942, Anne Frank penned her first entry into the red checkered diary that she had just received for her thirteenth birthday. By many estimates, Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, first published in 1947 and in English translation in 1952, and by now translated into over […]

AP/JWST 4823 3.0: Contemporary Israeli Society

This course analyzes diverse themes of global relevance as they manifest themselves in the context of Israeli state and society.RESERVED SPACES: All spaces reserved for Year 3 & 4 Humanities & Jewish Studies Majors and Minors.

AP/JWST 4822 3.00 Gender and Womanhood in Israel

This course offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural and historical development of Israeli womanhood during the early years of statehood. It pays special attention to the evolution of values and cultures of domestic space and home. Course credit exclusions: None

AP/JWST 4821 3.00 Culture, Society and Values in Israel

This course offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the values and cultures of Israel and their evolution, expression, and reflection in cultural production, social structures, politics and history.

AP/JWST 4819 6.00 EN Visions of the End: Early Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism

This course investigates the origins, development and continuing legacies of apocalypticism in ancient Judaism and in the history of Christianity. We will focus on understanding: (1) apocalyptic literature (biblical and nonbiblical, including 1 Enoch, Daniel, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Revelation); (2) millennial movements; and (3) the apocalyptic worldview, which centers on the notion of […]

AP/JWST 4818 3.00 EN Shaping Jewish Memory: Meaning, Imagination, and Identity

This course explores how Jewish communities and individuals have remembered, interpreted and given meaning to the past to shape identity and values. It studies fiction, non-fiction, photographs, films, liturgy, and other vehicles of memory. Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 4818 6.00.PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/HUMA 4818 6.00, AS/HUMA 4818 3.00.

AP/JWST 4809 6.00 The Hebrew Bible and the Literature of the Ancient Near East

Since the nineteenth century, it has become increasingly evident that the Hebrew Bible is a product of its world. The recovery and decipherment of literatures from Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt, and the Levant have provided ample illustration of this contention. The aim of this course is to look at some of the various literary genres and […]

AP/JWST 4808 6.00 Sex and Violence in the Hebrew Bible

This course attempts a nuanced reading of texts dealing with sexuality and/or violence in the Hebrew Bible. The discussion focuses both on a contextual and on a contemporaneous reading of these texts. RESERVED SPACES: All spaces reserved for Year 3 & 4 Humanities & Religious Studies Majors and Minors.PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: […]