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JUST 100 - Religions of the World
Credits: 4
What does it mean to study various religions from an academic perspective? How do we, as outsiders at a public university, discuss different traditions responsibly? Answering questions like these and developing our skills as scholars of religion is of no small importance in an increasingly global society. This class will take a thematic approach to a number of traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Prominent themes include the history of Religious Studies as a discipline, religion and popular culture, religion and violence, the history of utopian thought, and the status of new and controversial movements across the globe. Offered regularly.
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JUST 101 - Intro to Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
This survey course, appropriate for first and second year students, will examine the course of Jewish history, philosophy, culture and religion through over three millennia. The course will include key sections of the Hebrew Bible, Rabbinic writings, medieval and early modern philosophy, as well as 19th and 20th century political works, art, and literature. No background is required. Offered regularly.
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JUST 111 - Philosophy of Religion
Credits: 4
This introductory course will explore the many philosophical and methodological questions which emerge from the study of religious thought. Topics will include the nature of religious subjectivity, divinity, prayer, sacrifice, and faith. The course will be divided into four sections, including Two Approaches to the Study of Religion (Freud and William James); Foundations and Varieties of Faith (David Hume, Kant); Two central biblical stories (Genesis 22 - The Binding of Isaac, and the Book of Job); and Critical Study of Religion - including race and feminist theology. Students will practice techniques of close readings of primary and secondary texts. Offered regularly.
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JUST 120 - Intro to Israeli Literature
Credits: 4
This survey courses introduces students to the many forms of (poetry, short stories, novels) and themes in (ethnic and religious tension, conflict, love, identity) Israeli literature. Texts will be read in translations. Texts in the original may be provided for students with relevant language skills. Offered regularly.
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JUST 125 - Israeli Culture Through Film
Credits: 4
This course will use film as a primary means of exploring and experiencing the rich, complex and sometimes contradictory dynamics of Israeli culture. Through critical use of films and texts, we will examine major issues of Israeli cultural life such as migration, ethnic diversity, war and conflict, religion, gender and nationalism. This course will therefore enable students to expand their knowledge and deepen their understandings of both film and Israeli culture. Offered regularly.
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JUST 140 - Survey of American Jewish Lit
Credits: 4
Through the Golden Door: Survey of American Jewish Literature Course Description: This course traces through literature the realities and challenges of being Jewish in America from after the Civil War to the present. We will read in all genres, exploring topics such as the immigrant experience, acculturation and assimilation, anti-Semitism, generational conflicts and differences, gender issues, and continuing themes in the body of work. At least ten one- to two-page pieces of in-class writing; two five-page papers; quizzes; and final examination. Offered regularly.
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JUST 150 - Modern Israel
Credits: 4
A survey of modern Israel from pre-state Ottoman times to the present including the rise of Jewish nationalism (Zionism), the British Mandate, the emergence of State of Israel, Israeli-Palestinian relations, and contemporary Israel. Thematic emphasis may vary. Offered regularly.
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JUST 180A - Intro Topics in Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
Intro Topics in Judaic Studies. Topics vary by semester.
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JUST 180B - Intro Topics in Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
Intro Topics in Judaic Studies. Topics vary by semester.
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JUST 180C - Intro Topics in Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
Intro Topics in Judaic Studies. Topics vary by semester.
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JUST 180D - Intro Topics in Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
Intro Topics in Judaic Studies. Topics vary by semester.
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JUST 180E - Intro Topics in Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
Intro Topics in Judaic Studies. Topics vary by semester.
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JUST 182A - Intro Topics in Judaic Studies
Credits: 2
Intro Topics in Judaic Studies. Topics vary by semester.
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JUST 182B - Intro Topics in Judaic Studies
Credits: 2
Intro Topics in Judaic Studies. Topics vary by semester.
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JUST 201 - Jewish History Ancient to 1500
Credits: 4
This survey course examines the history, culture, philosophy, religion, and political experiences of Jews from the Biblical period through the second temple period, to the medieval period. Themes include the relationship between Jews, Christians and Muslims, Jews under foreign political rule Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans), and the social and economic history of Jews in Europe through the middle ages. The course fulfills core and survey requirement for Judaic Studies majors and minors. Offered regularly.
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JUST 202 - Jewish History 1500 to Modern
Credits: 4
This survey course examines the history, culture, philosophy, religion, and political experiences of Jews from the Spanish expulsion to Modernity. Themes include the social and cultural development of Jews in Europe and beyond, anti-Semitism, the encounter of tradition and modernity, emancipation, and enlightenment. The course fulfills core and survey requirement for Judaic Studies majors and minors. Offered regularly.
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JUST 205 - Becoming Israeli
Credits: 4
How does one become a part of society? What are the tensions between the individual and the collective negotiated in the process of forming an identity: being educated, learning about yourself, about the world and about life, overcoming obstacles, maturing? In this class, we will explore these questions in the Israeli historical and cultural contexts, via the analysis of literary texts of the Coming-of-Age genre. We will delve into issues such as national affinities, class, ethnicity, gender and sexuality following the moral and psychological development of some touching and memorable characters in their journey of passage from childhood to adulthood. Offered regularly.
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JUST 211 - Zionist Thought
Credits: 4
This course will explore early Zionist writings. The course is intended to provide a grounding in the foundational nineteenth and early twentieth century texts of Zionism and to understand the philosophical and religious background, ideas, consequences (and debates between) some of the various voices in early Zionist thought. Offered Reguarly.
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JUST 227 - Cultures and Society in Israel
Credits: 4
This survey course is a study of the many religious, ethnic, political, and linguistic dimensions of modern Israeli culture and society. It examines the forces that affect them, the divides between them, their interactions with each other, and their manifestations in music, film, art, and literature. Offered regularly.
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JUST 243 - Medieval Jewish History
Credits: 4
A survey of Jewish history from the rise of Islam to the expulsion from Spain. Emphasis can be on different sociocultural themes or sub-periods.
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JUST 245 - Holocaust in Sephardi World
Credits: 4
Judaic Studies seeks to expose students to over three millennia of Jewish history and culture. The experience of Mediterranean Jewries during the Holocaust has long been relegated to the margins of the historical narrative. This course would aim to frame the Holocaust not as a solely European story, but a global one with profound implications for Jewish communities on both sides of the Mediterranean. Among topics covered would be the near complete erasure of long standing Sephardi communities such as those of Salonika, Rhodes, Sarajevo and Monastir, the implementation of racial laws in Vichy and Italian controlled territories of North Africa, the internment of Tunisian Jewry in labor camps, and Jewish involvement in the underground resistance in Algeria. In addition to its novel focus on Mediterranean Jewries, the course would seek to immerse students in a comprehensive approach that focuses not only on historical narratives regarding the emergence of discourses of race, genocide, and mass murder, but the complexities of conceptual categories such as resistance and collaboration as well as historiographical debates regarding the roots and causation of the Holocaust. Of particular importance would be the myriad ways in which the Holocaust has been remembered and represented by its Mediterranean survivors, both in oral and written testimonies. Offered regularly.
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JUST 248 - Antisemitism in History
Credits: 4
This course surveys the history of antisemitism from antiquity to the present. Topics include ancient Greek and Roman writings against the Jews and Jewish responses to them, medieval anti-Jewish texts, anti-Jewish dimensions of the Enlightenment, the rise of antisemitism in 19 th century Europe and the impact of antisemitism in the 20 th and 21 st centuries. The course asks, what are some of the important functions of antisemitism in history, and why does antisemitism persist and adapt to new circumstances’ A section of the course will also address philosemitism, i.e., prejudices in favor of the Jews. Offered regularly.
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JUST 250 - American Jewish Fiction
Credits: 4
An analysis of the Jewish experience through the fiction of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Chaim Potol, Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, and the drama of Wendy Wasserstein, Barbara Lebow, and Paddy Chayevsky. Among the major themes examined: assimilation, Zionism, social alienation, religion, American and the old, East European world. Offered regularly.
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JUST 251 - The Jewish Short Story
Credits: 4
The Jewish Short Story explores the genre of the Jewish short story as it morphs from folktale into contemporary art form. The Jewish story or tale is vital to Jewish tradition, for as the saying goes, ‘G’d made man because He loves stories.’ We will study the technical aspects of the short story (character, setting, plot, etc.) and read deeply to examine how these short pieces of fiction articulate Jewish life, history, and tradition through the centuries, including our own. All stories will be in English, some in translation. Offered regularly.
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JUST 258 - Mapping the Modern Middle East
Credits: 4
This course is a history of modern efforts to map the Middle East, covering topics including: pre-modern maps created by the Ottomans and others; Napoleon’s mapping of Egypt and Palestine at the end of the 19th century; religious maps; surveys conducted by American and European Christians; maps created for commercial and colonial interests; conflicts between modern mapping/land ownership regimes and nomadic tribal boundaries; and contemporary/open-source maps. Israel/Palestine/Holy Land is a major geographic area of focus, but the course also explores the wider Middle East and North Africa. Offered once a year.
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JUST 259 - Jewish Non-Profit Organization
Credits: 4
This course examines the organizations and systems that make up the Jewish community in the United States. The course aims to both deconstruct the concept of community and understand how institutions fulfill the purposes of community. The main part of the course will explore the rich, diverse, and complex landscape of Jewish communal organizations.
NOTE: Students who have taken JUST 459 will not receive credit for taking JUST 259.
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JUST 280A - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
May be repeated for credit as topic changes.
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JUST 280B - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 280G - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 280I - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 280J - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 280M - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 280N - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 280P - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 280Q - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 280V - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 281A - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 2
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JUST 281B - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 2
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JUST 281C - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 2
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JUST 284A - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
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JUST 284B - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
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JUST 284D - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
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JUST 284E - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
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JUST 284G - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
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JUST 284P - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
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JUST 284R - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
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JUST 284T - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
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JUST 285B - Topics: The Holocaust
Credits: 4
May be repeated for credit as topic changes.
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JUST 287A - Topics in Israel & Middle East
Credits: 4
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JUST 287P - Topics in Israel & Middle East
Credits: 4
May be repeated for credit as topic changes.
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JUST 289A - Topics:Jewish Inst. & Politics
Credits: 4
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JUST 310 - The Jewish American Novel
Credits: 4
In 1977, critic of Jewish culture Irving Howe lamented what he feared was the end of American Jewish literature: ‘What,’ he worried, ‘is the likely future of American Jewish writing? Can we expect a new generation of writers to appear who will contribute to American literature a distinctive sensibility and style derived from the Jewish experience in this country?’ We address that question by reading Jewish American novels from early immigration through the golden era of Jewish American literature (1960s and 1970s) to present day. Pre-requsite: One course in Israel Studies, MENA, or permission of Instructor. Offered regularly.
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JUST 311 - Faith and Reason
Credits: 4
This course explores the philosophical and religious tensions in and between the categories of faith and reason. How are we to understand faith? What is a religion of or from reason? What does one gain or lose by founding religion on reason alone? Topics will include the nature of religious subjectivity, divinity, metaphysics, and supernatural, creation, revelation, and prayer. Prerequisites: one course in philosophy.
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JUST 312 - Radical Religious Movements
Credits: 4
This course focuses on religious movements that are deemed radical by their contemporaries. Topics will vary, though generally we will focus on the self-professed religious identity of these movements alongside their relationship to a broader religious culture. Do such movements consider themselves radical? How do they communicate with, or seek to influence, the mainstream? We begin with the period of the Protestant Reformation before moving on to the proliferation of communalist, utopian, and messianic movements. Later topics include religious socialism, terrorism, new religious movements and the anti-cult movement, and the recent appearance of so-called ‘invented religions’ like Jediism and Matrixism. Offered regularly.
Note: Students that have taken JUST 212 may not take JUST 312 and receive credit for it.
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JUST 315 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Credits: 4
The territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, comprising Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, is often described as Israel-Palestine, due to the ongoing land claims of two rival national movements. Although the territory is small and includes a relatively small population, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has remained at the forefront of international attention for three-quarters of a century. This course examines the conflict and the larger Arab-Israeli dispute from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Among the topics to be examined: the social history of late Ottoman Palestine; the origins and varieties of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism before and during the British Mandate; the 1948 War, Israeli independence, and the Palestinian refugee crisis; 1967 and its aftermath; and the various armed struggles, peace attempts, and unilateral actions that have that have played important roles throughout.
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JUST 316 - Walking & Waymarking in Israel
Credits: 3
This faculty-led course in Israel uses trails to explore how different people groups throughout history have articulated their connections to a sacred land. Binghamton students will travel across the country with Israeli students, and will walk ancient and modern trails in the north, center, and south. Students will learn the spiritual, political, and territorial dimensions of walking and trails, both in the Israeli context, and worldwide. Pre-requisite: One course in Israel Studies, MENA, or permission of Instructor. Offered Winter Only.
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JUST 321 - Walking the Land
Credits: 4
This course is about hiking and pilgrimage in modern Israel/Palestine/Holy Land. It explores the religious traditions and political movements that have attached significance to the act of walking the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, beginning in the late Ottoman period and continuing to the present day.
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JUST 331 - Jews and Muslims
Credits: 4
This course offers a survey of Jewish-Muslim relations from the emergence of Islam through the modern period. Beginning with the medieval period, topics covered include the relationship between Islam and peoples of the Book, Jewish communal life and self-government, participation in Mediterranean trade, the world of the Cairo Geniza, and intellectual and cultural achievements of the “Golden Age of Spain”. Moving to the early modern and modern periods, topics covered will include Jewish life in the Ottoman lands, the rise of European imperialism, the dissolution of empire and the emergence of nationalism. The course fulfills core and survey requirement for Judaic Studies majors and minors. Students that have taken JUST 257 may not receive credit for JUST 331.
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JUST 340 - American Jewish Women Writers
Credits: 4
This course will survey texts written in English by American Jewish women from the Civil War to the present as they move out of the kitchens and sweatshops and onto their own pages. Exploring the historical context surrounding their work, we will address chiefly the writers’ contributions in fiction and non-fiction, focusing on key issues of immigration, acculturation, assimilation, family, sexuality, religious practice, and the experience of being or becoming American. Pre-requisites: one previous course in Judaic Studies, preferably a lower level course such as introduction toJudaic Studies, Jewish History 1500, Modernity, or Philosophy of Religion. Offered regularly.
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JUST 341 - Holocaust Literature
Credits: 4
This course explores the literary responses of the first generation (victims and survivors) of the Holocaust or Shoah. The literature of witness provides an enrichment of the narrative of History - not a counterpoint to History, but a deepening and focusing of it. Noting key historical events, we read memoirs, diaries, journals, poetry, fiction, and popular literature by survivors and their descendants to bear witness to how events of the Holocaust reverberate into the present. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.
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JUST 342 - Between Persians and Islam
Credits: 4
A study of the formative period for both Judaism and Christianity. Emphasis can be on different sociocultural themes or sub-periods.
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JUST 343 - Post Holocaust Literature
Credits: 4
We will read Holocaust literature through the prism of the literature of witness, emphasizing pieces by Second Generation writers, the children and ‘offspring’ of Holocaust survivors. These writers bear witness to the witnesses and to events that they did not live through but that shaped their lives. In this context, eminent scholars like Geoffrey H. Hartman, Ellen Fine, Efraim Sicher, and Alan Berger persuasively argue that with the passing of the First Generation, the Second Generation assumes the mantle of bearing witness for the witnesses and telling the story of the Shoah from generation to generation. Pre-requisite: sophomore standing.
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JUST 344 - Renaissance&EarlyModJewishHist
Credits: 4
A study of the period between the expulsion from Spain and the 18th Century. Emphasis can be on different sociocultural themes or sub-periods.
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JUST 345 - The Holocaust
Credits: 4
A study of the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis and their allies during World War II including an examination of Jewish responses and resistance to the Nazis, as well as post-war attempts to understand the Holocaust. Thematic emphasis may vary.
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JUST 346 - Encountering Israel&Palestine
Credits: 4
Few places attract as much spiritual and political attention as the Israeli and Palestinian space. This course offers students the possibility of gaining a better understanding of Israeli and Palestinian realities through exploration of lived experience of the local people. Rather than taking a comprehensive historical approach, it allows student to engage in brief yet critical intellectual encounters with central elements of Israeli and Palestinian lives such as religion, politics, violence and the mundane. Offered regularly. Prerequisite: at least one lower level Israel Studies course.
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JUST 348 - Israeli Culture and Society
Credits: 4
An in-depth look at the various religious, ethnic, linguistic, and other groups that make up contemporary Israeli society; the cultural expressions that are born from interactions between these groups; and how Israeli culture and society have been, and continue to be, shaped by outside political and historical forces. Pre-requisite JUST 347.
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JUST 350 - Modern Jewish History
Credits: 4
A survey of Jewish history from the 19th Century to the present. Emphasis can be on different sociocultural themes or sub-periods. If you have previously taken JUST 244 Modern Jewish History you may not receive credit for this course.
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JUST 351 - Jewish New York
Credits: 4
How and why did New York become so Jewish? Whether as bankers or gangsters, tailors or songwriters, Jews have played a critical role in the economic, political and cultural life of this quintessential American metropolis. Students are encouraged to explore this vital aspect of New York’s past through a variety of sources, including newspapers, city archives and the photographic record. All material for class will be in English translation. Offered regularly.
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JUST 352 - American Jewish Thought
Credits: 4
This course reviews some of the central influences on, and concerns and consequences of American Jewish thought. Questions include: the relationship between theology and democratic culture, challenges to inherited religious traditions, the influence of feminist thought on religious practice, and the place and function of religious authority. Taught regularly.
NOTE: Students who have taken JUST 252 will not receive credit for taking JUST 352.
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JUST 353 - Jews in the Mediterranean City
Credits: 4
The course offers an exploration of Jewish life in Mediterranean port cities during the early modern and modern periods. Among the cities covered will be Istanbul, Livorno, Salonika, Alexandria, and Venice. The course will undertake discussions of themes such as the emergence of the Sephardi Diaspora, mercantile networks, integration, shared urban space, and cosmopolitanism. Offered regularly every year or year and a half.
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JUST 354 - Modern Yiddish Culture
Credits: 4
This course examines the organizations and systems that make up the Jewish community in the United States. The course aims to both deconstruct the concept of “community” and understand how institutions fulfill the purposes of community. The main part of the course will explore the rich, diverse, and complex landscape of Jewish communal organizations. Offered regularly. Taught in English. Student that have taken a 200-level version of Modern Yiddish Culture will not receive credit for this course. Offered regularly.
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JUST 357 - Jews and Power
Credits: 4
This course will address the question of the relationship of Judaism and Jewish tradition to political and military power. It will explore the ways in which Jewish thought and literature reflect a distinctive approach to the responsibilities of leadership and statecraft. It will focus on the treatment of these issues in ancient and medieval texts as well as on the ways these texts have been adopted (or rejected) by Jews confronting the new conditions of the modern world, both in the Diaspora and in the State of Israel. Pre-requisite: One course in Judaic Studies, MENA, or permission of Instructor. Restriction: No freshman. Offered regularly.
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JUST 361 - The Bible & Its Interpretation
Credits: 4
This course takes a comparative approach to the history of biblical interpretation by looking at diverse communities within the Jewish and Christian traditions. How have these communities used the Bible to understand their place in history, address present tribulations, and even predict the future? What major conflicts have arisen over the issue of interpretation? Some topics include the theme of movement in the Torah and rabbinical tradition, 18th and 19th century biblical scholarship, the meaning of allegory in Catholic and Protestant interpretation, and the so-called literal sense of scripture. We will also close by considering the issue of biblical interpretation as it relates to new religious movements in America. Offered regularly.
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JUST 363 - Jews & Christians in Conflict
Credits: 4
For Centuries, Christians and Jews have argued over which group possesses the one true faith. This course surveys the shifting grounds of the debate from Antiquity to the present. Topics include: the emergence of early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism; the image of the Jew in medieval Christian literature and of the Gentile in Jewish law and Kabbalah; the decimation of Jewish communities during the Crusades; and the formal disputations between Jewish and Christian scholars. We conclude with a discussion of efforts in the wake of the Holocaust to achieve a degree of rapprochement between the faiths. Pre-requisite: The course does not require specific background knowledge, but does demand the necessary intellectual maturity to read difficult historical primary texts (in English), often of a complex philosophical and theological nature.
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JUST 368 - German Jews
Credits: 4
This course will examine the lives of representative German Jews from the middle of the 18th century to the beginning of the Nazi era. It will focus on these individuals’ relationship to Judaism and Jewish life and the changing German world in which they lived. Among the figures studied will be philosophers (Moses Mendelssohn), politicians (Gabriel Riesser and Walter Rathenau), rabbis (Leo Baeck), and feminists (Bertha Pappenheim). Selected Topics: the fight for Jewish civil rights in the 19th century, the reception of Jews in the German public sphere, responses to anti-Semitism, new philosophies of Judaism. Pre-requisite: JUST 202 or equivalent.
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JUST 371 - The Ghetto,The Jews,& the City
Credits: 4
For centuries, the Jewish quarter was a fixture of the European urban landscape. Our class will examine how the ‘ghetto’ became a locus of controversy - sometimes regarded as a symbol of misfortune and a source of hatred, sometimes loved as a safe haven and a home. In order to better understand this ghetto life we will explore the back alleys and the public square of the European continent. Maps and urban landmarks, fine art and folk art, fiction and film will guide us along the way. All material will be in English translation.
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JUST 372 - FieldMethodArch(Mediterranean)
Credits: Variable
The archaeological field school at Tel Akko (Israel) integrates the multifaceted aspects of twenty-first-century archaeology through training in excavation, survey, geographic information systems (GIS), landscape archaeology, conservation, heritage studies, archaeological sciences and community outreach. Students will learn field methods through participation in an on-going archaeological project. The work includes archaeological survey; digging stratigraphically; recording excavation depths using levels and total stations; making notes on excavated artifacts and data; making photographic records; drawing balks; drafting top plans; processing artifacts; and taking part in specialist pottery analysis. Students will also learn about the eastern Mediterranean and the city of Akko from numerous perspectives including history, archaeology, religion, culture, tourism, and city government through a series of lectures, workshops, and seminars presented by the faculty and by guest speakers, through work on-site, and through field trips to other sites and museums. Offered summer only. 4-6 credits.
Students who wish to participate in this program and who have previously been convicted of a felony are advised that they will be asked about their prior criminal history. This may impede your ability to participate in certain experiences. Students who have concerns about such matters, or are looking for additional information, are advised to contact the dean’s office of their intended academic program.
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JUST 375 - At Home in the Diaspora
Credits: 4
This course will examine the modern ideologies and movements that have advocated and worked for the reconstitution of the Jews as a non-territorial and secular nation. It will begin with a close study of the ideology of the Russian Jewish diaspora nationalist Simon Dubnow, continue with a review of his intellectual heirs’ attempts to put his ideas into practice, and end with an examination of contemporary diasporists’ critique of Zionism. Prerequisite: A previous course in Jewish History. Offered regularly.
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JUST 380A - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 380B - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 380C - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 380D - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 380E - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 380G - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 380P - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 380U - Spec Topics In Judaic Studies
Credits: 4
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JUST 384A - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
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JUST 384B - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
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JUST 384C - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
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JUST 384D - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
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JUST 384E - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
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JUST 384G - Jewish Thought,Culture,Society
Credits: 4
May be repeated for credit as topic changes.
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JUST 385A - Topics: The Holocaust
Credits: 4
May be repeated for credit as topic changes.
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JUST 385B - Topics: The Holocaust
Credits: 4
May be repeated for credit as topic changes.
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JUST 385C - Topics: The Holocaust
Credits: 4
May be repeated for credit as topic changes.
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JUST 386A - Topics in Israel & Middle East
Credits: 4
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JUST 386B - Topics in Israel & Middle East
Credits: 4
May be repeated for credit as topic changes.
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JUST 386M - Topics in Israel & Middle East
Credits: 4
May be repeated for credit as topic changes.
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JUST 389B - Topics:Jewish Inst. & Politics
Credits: 4
May be repeated for credit as topic changes.
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JUST 395 - Internship
Credits: Variable
Judaic Studies internships can be pursued in a variety of settings. They assume a mentor at the internship site, an academic mentor at Binghamton University, and an academic plan of study for the time of the internship. Up to can satisfy major or minor requirements, depending on other independent work. Prerequisites: Major/minor in Judaic Studies and consent of instructor as well as approval by the Judaic Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies. s.
Students who wish to participate in an internship and who have previously been convicted of a felony are advised that they will be asked about their prior criminal history. This may impede your ability to participate in certain internships. Students who have concerns about such matters, or are looking for additional information, are advised to contact the dean’s office of their intended academic program.
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