Colby College
Jewish Studies
5274 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901-8852
P: 207-859-5274
F: 207-859-5252
 

Course Offerings

Fall 2009

JS 181 Conceptions of Jews and Judaism

JS 197 Introduction to Talmud

JS 251 Israelis and Palestinians

JS 252 Politics of the Middle East

JS 421 Debating the Nazi Past

HB 126 Hebrew

HB 127 Hebrew III

 

January 2010

JS 1xx Documenting Maine's Jewish History

JS 115 Holocaust Lessons

JS 1xx Degenerate Music

Spring 2010

JS 182 Jews, Judaism, and the Modern World

JS 2xx Food and Religious Identity

JS 4xx Jews In Literature Medieval to Modern

HB 126 Hebrew

HB 127 Hebrew III

 
 

Fall 2008

RE 143: Intro to Hebrew Scripture (Mandolfo)

RE 181: Judiasm and its History I (Freidenreich)

RE 219: Texts of Terror (Mandolfo)

RE 384: Jewish Responses to Ethical Dilemmas (Freidenriech)

HI 421: Debating the Nazi Past (Scheck)

EN 349: Modern Jewish Writing (Suchoff)

GO 251: Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Accommodation (Denoeux)

GO 252: Politics of the Middle East (Denoeux)


  
Spring 2009

RE 182: Judaism and its History II (Freidenreich)

RE 282: The Making of Judaism (Freidenreich)

RE 382: Abraham in the Abrahamic Religions (Freidenreich)

JanPlan 2008
EN 115: Holocaust Lessons (Harris)

Hebrew 125, 126, and 127 to be arranged with Rabbi Krinsky and students

Courses approved for the Minor in Jewish Studies include:

English
The Holocaust: History, Literature, Film
Medieval Anti-Judaisms
Modern Jewish Writings
Modern Hebrew and Yiddush Literature
Hebrew Bible and Literary Theory
Feminism, Faith, and Fratricide in Jewish Women's Writing
Christ-Killers, Money-lenders, Prophets, and Neurotics:
    Jews in Literature Medieval to Modern
 Religious Studies
Rethinking God after the Holocaust
Reflections on Evil: A Study of the Book of Job
Introduction to Hebrew Scriptures
Judaism: Ancient and Modern
Biblical Literature
Biblical Hebrew I, II
Introduction to Hebrew Scriptures
Government
Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Accomodation in the Politics of the Middle East
History
Jewish History I: From Antiquity to 1492
Jewish History II: From 1492 to the Present
Jews and Judaism in America
Women in Modern Jewish History
Dilemmas of Modern Jewish Identify
Eastern European Jewish History and Culture


Race in Modern Europe
Jewish Biography and Autobiography
Zionism and the Jewish State
Anti-Semitism
Research Seminar: Debating the Nazi Past
Research Seminar: Jews and the City

 

Fall 2006

GO 252: Politics of the Middle East
(Denoeux)

History 181: Jewish History I: from Antiquity to 1492
(Lupovitch)

History 385: Kabbalah and Its Impact
(Lupovitch)

History 421: Debating the Nazi Past
(Scheck)

RE 233: Introduction to Hebrew Scriptures
(Mandolfo)

   Spring 2007
EN349: Modern Jewish Writing
(Suchoff)

History 1xx: The Holocaust and the religious response (ISP)
(Weisbrot)

History 182: Jewish History II: 1492 to the Present
(Lupovitch)

History 393: Text and Tradition
(Lupovitch)

History 479: Jews and the City
(Lupovitch)

RE 1xx God after Auschwitz: Religious responses to the holocaust (ISP)
(Mandolfo)

JanPlan 2007
 GO 251j: Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Accommodation
(Denoeux)