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Transfer Student Courses in Hebrew and Jewish Cultural StudiesThis page was created at 12:39 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. Fall Academic Term, 2001 (September 5 - December 21)Open courses in Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies Wolverine Access Subject listing for HJCS Fall Term '01Time Schedule for Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies. HJCS 100 / AAPTIS 100 / ACABS 100 / HISTORY 132. Peoples of the Middle East.
General Near Eastern StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Kathryn Babayan (babayan@umich.edu) , Gary M Beckman (sidd@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: https://cgi.www.umich.edu/~nes100/F01/ See Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies 100.001.
HJCS 200 / ACABS 200 / AAPTIS 200 / RELIGION 201. Introduction to World Religions: Near Eastern.
General Near Eastern StudiesSection 001 – Religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.Instructor(s): Ralph G Williams (fiesole@umich.edu) , Alexander D Knysh (alknysh@umich.edu) , Yaron Z Eliav (yzeliav@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/acabs/200/001.nsf See Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies 200.001.
HJCS 270 / JUDAIC 270. Introduction to Rabbinic Literature.
Judaic Cultural Studies in EnglishSection 001.Instructor(s): Yaron Z EliavPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The writings that comprise rabbinic literature are considered by many to be masterpieces of the ancient world (on a par with the Bible, New Testament, and the Classical Literature). This course will explore the history and substance of these writings on three levels. First, we will situate the rabbinic enterprise within a broader cultural, historical, and religious context. Second, we will examine the various genres that constitute rabbinic literature and get acquainted with the sages, an elite group of Jewish intellectuals, who created this corpus during the Roman and Byzantine periods. Finally, we will trace the gradual process in subsequent generations that shaped these texts to their current format and endowed them with their unique status. Readings for the course (which all include English translations) will introduce us to the complex world of the sages and help us understand the dynamics that shaped their literary venture.
HJCS 276 / JUDAIC 205. Introduction to Jewish Civilizations and Culture.
General HJCSSection 001 – Meets with HJCS 576.001.Instructor(s): Gabriele BoccacciniPrerequisites & Distribution: No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in HJCS 576. (4). (HU). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HJCS 373 / JUDAIC 373. Israeli Culture and Society.
General HJCSSection 001 – BETWEEN WAR AND APOCALYPSEInstructor(s): Sidra DeKoven EzrahiPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (SS).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. A comparison of literary representations of 'war' and 'catastrophe' or 'holocaust' as reflective of fundamentally opposite cultural constructs. We look briefly at the "poetry of lamentation" in the Bible and its transformation in modern Hebrew literature; the cultural spaces of the martyr and the hero; the claims of private vis-à-vis collective memory; the sites and performances of memory as they relate to the Holocaust and the modern Wars of Israel. We will look at the aesthetic and ethical vocabularies invoked in the shifting definitions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict between 'war' and 'apocalypse.' Brief comparisons are drawn with representations of war in classical Greek and in modern western literature. Contemporary Hebrew writers under consideration include David Grossman, Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Yehoshua Sobol and a sampling of the 'war poets' and writers (S. Yizhar, Natan Alterman, Amir Gilboa, Yehuda Amichai, Dalia Ravikovitch).
HJCS 471. Introduction to Modern Hebrew Literature, I.
Jewish Literature and Culture in HebrewSection 001.Instructor(s): Ruth Tsoffar (rtsoffar@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: HJCS 302. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Hebrew 471 is an intensive introduction to Modern Hebrew literature. The purpose of the course is to read carefully a wide range of literary texts of different periods and different genres. The course will help to develop a theoretical framework in order to allow student to situate and respond critically to this body of literature. So along with studying specific strategies to articulate Israeli diversity of gender, religion, history and nationhood, we will discuss relevant issues such as colonialism, hybridity, orientalism and multiculturalism. The literary texts selected include Zionist and postZionist writers, women, Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews, and Palestinians. An advanced knowledge of Hebrew required (completion of Hebrew 302 or Hebrew 402 or equivalent). Short essays, term paper or project. The course is open to undergraduate and graduate students. Graduate Students have additional assignments and are expected to write a longer and more theoretically-oriented paper.
HJCS 478 / JUDAIC 468 / RELIGION 469. Jewish Mysticism.
Judaic Cultural Studies in EnglishSection 001.Instructor(s): Elliot K Ginsburg (elgins@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. A study of the historical development of Jewish mysticism, its symbolic universe, meditational practices, and social ramifications. While we will survey mystical traditions from the late second Temple period through modernity, the central focus will be on the rich medieval stream known as kabbalah. Among the issues to be explored are:
Modern interpretations of mysticism will also be considered. Readings for the course consist of secondary sources from the history of Judaism and comparative religion, and selected primary texts (in translation). Requirements include two exams and a research paper. Class lectures will be supplemented by discussion, comtemplative exercises, and on occasion, music and other media.
HJCS 491. Topics in Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies.
Jewish Literature and Culture in EnglishSection 001 – Post-Zionist Readings of Hebrew Fiction: Excluded Others Reshape Israeli Narrative. Meets with HJCS 591.001. Taught in Hebrew.Instructor(s): Sidra DeKoven EzrahiPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Beginning with the short fiction of S.Y. Agnon, David Fogel an Duri N. Gnessin, we will proceed to a reading of [Yaacov Shabtai (Zikhron Devarim) – if time permits], David Grossman (Ayen Erekh Ahava), Meir Shalev (Roman Russi), A.B. Yehoshua (Mar Mani), Orli Kastel-Blum (short fiction), and Anton Shammas (Arabesques). We will explore the ideological and aesthetic positions of these texts vis-à-vis the evolution of a territory-based, predominately modernist Hebrew literature and the ongoing debates over post-modernist attitudes and practices in late twentieth-century Israeli culture. We will focus on the emergence of a 'post-Zionist' culture out of a more direct encounter with repressed selves, muffled voices, and effaced events.
HJCS 577 / JUDAIC 467 / RELIGION 471. Seminar: Topics in the Study of Judaism.
General HJCSSection 001 – The Year as Spiritual Practice: Models of Sacred Time in Jewish Mysticism.Instructor(s): Elliot K Ginsburg (elgins@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of 9 credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In Jewish (mystical) tradition, the round of the year paces out a comprehensive devotional path, both a world-view and a spiritual practice. In this course, we will explore the yearly cycles of time – as expressed in Kabbalistic and Hasidic mysticism: especially Zoharic Kabblah and the Bnei Yissaschar, but also the Sefat Emet, the Icbiczer and Slonimer, and that latter day mystic, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. These primary (Hebrew language) texts will be supplemented by English-language readings from the history and philosophy of religions, from Judaism (Scholem, Heschel, and Rosenzweig) and from the anthropology of time. This course will be conducted as a seminar: it calls for both intellectual rigor and engagement, to understand Judaism not only as an "argument" but as "deep song." Proficient knowledge of Hebrew is required for this course. Short essays, term paper or project.
HJCS 591. Topics in Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies.
Jewish Literature and Culture in EnglishSection 001 – Post-Zionist Readings of Hebrew Fiction: Excluded Others Reshape Israeli Narrative. Meets with HJCS 491.001. Taught in Hebrew.Instructor(s): Sidra DeKoven EzrahiPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies 491.001.
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