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Israel Studies Course Clusters | Faculty of Social Sciences

Israel Studies Course Clusters

 

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Courses in English, 2021/2022

 

 

Teacher’s Name

Title of Course

Degree

Semester

Comments

Abrahamic Religions

 

1. Prof. Michael Segal

Biblical Court Tales

BA (open for students from elite universities)

2

HU calendar, last classes via Zoom

2. Prof. David Flatto

The Covenantal Idea in Jewish Thought

BA (open for students from elite universities)

2

US calendar

3. Dr. Igor Kreimerman

The Economy and Social Structure of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah

BA (open for students from elite universities)

2

HU calendar, last classes via Zoom

4. Prof. Amnon Ben-Tor

Hazor: 'Head of all Those Kingdoms'

MA

2

HU calendar, last classes via Zoom

5. Prof. Vivian Liska

The Legacy of German Jewish Modernism

MA

2

HU calendar, last classes via Zoom

6. Prof. Michael Fisch

Hannah Arndet and Rachel Varnhagen

MA

2

HU calendar, last classes via Zoom

7. Prof. Arnold Davidson

Spiritual Exercises in Modern Jewish Philosophy

MA

2

US  calendar

8. Dr. Oded Zinger

Travel in the Medieval Islamic World

BA (open for students from elite universities)

2

US calendar

9. Dr. Martina Mampieri

Discipline and Punish: Heresy, Religious Minorities and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe

BA (open for students from elite universities)

2

HU calendar, last classes via Zoom

10. Dr. Koloka Hanlis

Death, Dying and Grief in Islam

BA (open for students from elite universities)

2

HU calendar, last classes via Zoom

11. Dr. Koloka Hanlis

Images of Paradise in the Qur'an and in Islam

MA

2

HU calendar, last classes via Zoom

12. Prof. Adina Moshavi

Language of Biblical Poetry

BA (open for students from elite universities)

2

HU calendar, last classes via Zoom

13. Prof. Adam Silverstein

From Islam to Islamism: The Historical Roots of Political Islam

BA (open for students from elite universities)

2

HU calendar, last classes via Zoom

14. Prof. Katia Zitrin-Silverman

Interconnecting Islam: Roads and Inns from the Umayyad through the Ottoman Period

MA

2

US calendar

15. Dr. Nora Derbal

Introduction to the Arab States of the Gulf

BA (open for students from elite universities)

2

HU calendar, last classes via Zoom

16. Dr. Vadim Potcho

Wine in the Kabbalah of Tzfat: Symbol and Instrument

MA

2

Pending approval of Lady Davis post-doc fellowship

17. Prof. Esther Chazon

The Dead Sea Scrolls

MA

1

Zoom

Israel Studies

 

1. Dr. Tamar Hess

I am Aharoning: Reading David Grossman

MA

2

HU calendar, last classes via Zoom

2. Prof. Jonathan Dekel-Chen

The Kibbuts: Beginnings, Glory, the End?

 

MA

2

US calendar

3. Dr. Noam Gal

Israeli Art in the Thirds Millennium

BA (open for students from elite universities)

2

HU calendar, last classes via Zoom

4. Prof. Uzi Rebhun

The Population of Israel

BA (open for students from elite universities)

2

Zoom

5. Dr. Laura Wharton

Religion and State in Israel: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

BA (students from elite universities can enrol conditioned approval by teacher)

2

HU calendar

6. Dr. Yuval Benziman

Dialogue, Narratives, Identities and Conflict Resolution

MA

2

HU calendar