A program that focuses on the history, culture, and religion of the Jewish people. Includes instruction in Jewish religious heritage, sacred texts, and law; Jewish philosophy and intellectual history; Jewish life and culture, both in Israel and the Jewish Diaspora; historical Jewish minority cultures such as the Yiddish, Sephardic, and other; anti-Semitism, gentile relations and Shoa; Zionism; and modern developments within Judaism....
Jewish studies at Clark is designed to introduce the student to the major historical and religious trends in Jewish civilization since its inception in antiquity. The courses reflect the broad range of developments both encountered and fostered by the Jewish people including their contact with other world civilizations, classical literature, social and religious institutions, as well as their interaction with the modern world. In these courses, Jews...
The aim of Jewish Studies is to provide students with an understanding of the history, philosophy, religion, politics, sociology, anthropology, folklore, languages, and literature of the Jewish people. The program is intensive yet flexible, tailored to a wide range of interests normally included in the broad concept of Jewish Studies.
Students should also consult the course offerings in Hebrew language and literature and in Yiddish language and literature...
Grounded in the study of Hebrew language and classical texts, this interdisciplinary major encourages students to engage Judaism as a living, vibrant civilization with coursework in history, religion, literature, anthropology, sociology and American studies. Students explore varieties of Jewish experience in both western and nonwestern societies, from antiquity to the present.
Goals The Major in Jewish Studies prepares undergraduate students to treat area studies such as the study of Jews and Judaism from different disciplines, i.e., history, religious studies, language and linguistics, literature, theology, political science, and anthropology. The Major thus combines the Humanities and the Social Sciences in the investigation of Jewish Studies.
The interdisciplinary approach to the Major has two objectives: first, to...
The Jewish Studies program offers a BA degree Jewish Studies. This is offered at the Boca Raton campus, although some Jewish Studies courses are regularly offered at other sites.
The BA program is open to all students wishing to study various forms of Jewish culture throughout the centuries. It may be especially useful for:
those thinking about vocational opportunities in Jewish communal and educational organizations (community centers, family service...
The Judaic Studies program is designed to introduce students to the religion, history and literature of the Jewish people and to their interactions with the other peoples among whom they have lived. In the Western world, Jewish thought has been foundational to our common culture, yet the experience of the Jewish people, like that of other excluded minorities, has often diverged profoundly from that of the majority. The study of Judaism and of the...
Jewish Studies courses offer students the opportunity to explore Jewish history, literature, texts, and traditions and the ways that they have evolved in the context of various civilizations.
An undergraduate student wishing to pursue a major in Jewish Studies at Penn may choose among four options, each of which concentrates upon a different intellectual approach to Jewish civilization in its various aspects.
I. Interdisciplinary Major
The interdisciplinary...
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