UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies Courses 2014/15
Course code
Course Title
Value
Lecturer
*Note that for Graduate students, 0.5 = 15 credits, 1.0 = 30 credits. Courses with no Graduate codes are for UG students only & vice versa.
* This asterisk indicates new courses!
HEBR
5772
Survey of Jewish History 2: From Medieval to Early Modern Europe
0.5
Lars Fischer
5773
Survey of Jewish History 3: The Modern World
0.5
Michael Berkowitz
*5000
Sources, Methods, Skills (only 1st year HJS students)
0.5
Lars Fischer
*5902
Introduction to Hebrew Literature: Medieval to Modern
0.5
Tsila Ratner
*5326
Introduction to Jewish Languages
0.5
Lily Kahn
*5775
Introduction to Israeli Culture, Society and Politics
0.5
Ronald Ranta
*7819/G217
Introduction to Judeo-Spanish and its Literature
1
Zeljko Jovanovic
1005/G045
Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
1
Lily Kahn
*7603/G050
[Introduction to] Ugaritic
1
Lily Kahn
1006
Modern Hebrew for Beginners
1
Shoshana Sharpe
7302/GO17
Modern Hebrew - Lower Intermediate
1
Shoshana Sharpe
7303/GO48
Modern Hebrew - Higher Intermediate
1
Shoshana Sharpe
7304/GO36
Advanced Modern Hebrew
1
Shoshana Sharpe
7755A/G038A Representations of Trauma - Holocaust Writing
0.5
Tsila Ratner
7310/G039
Rattling the Gender Agenda
1
Tsila Ratner
*7418/G218
Ancient Hebrew & Related Inscriptions
0.5
Willem Smelik
7414/G013
Jewish Literary Aramaic
1
Willem Smelik
7504/GO16
Elementary Yiddish
1
Wojciech Tworek
TBC
Special Topics in Yiddish Literature
1
Yuri Vedenyapin
7416/GO83
[Introduction to] Syriac
1
Gillian Greenberg
7711/G031
European Jewry and the Holocaust
1
Michael Berkowitz
GO30
Graduate seminar: Introduction to Holocaust Studies
1
Michael Berkowitz
7731/G106
The Jews of Iberia & the Sephardi Diaspora
0.5
Hilary Pomeroy
*7734/G012
Jews of Central Europe: Histories, Entanglements, Transformations
1
Lars Fischer
7750/G009
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
1.0
Neill Lochery
7761/G104
Anglo-Israeli Relations
1
Neill Lochery
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7759/G069
Judaism and the Origins of Christianity
1
Sacha Stern
7766/G128
Israel and the Occupied Territories
0.5
Ronald Ranta
7812/GO26
Hasidism and Modernity
1
Tali Loewenthal
7216/G216
Moses Maimonides in Jewish Thought and History
1
Tali Loewenthal
*G333
MA Core Course (HJS MA students only; compulsory)
1
HJS (convenor: WS)
Non-credit bearing modules:
Talmud Class – open to anyone, Mondays 1-2pm, FC331
Graduate Seminar – compulsory for all HJS MA and Research students, Wednesdays 1:15-2:15, FC331
Related courses from King’s College available to UCL students:
6AAT3052 European Jews and the 'Orient'
6AAT3041 Hebrew Texts: Poetry
6AAT3040 Hebrew Texts: Prose
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