This course takes up topics in the study of literature in English in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and explores contemporary Jewish literature.

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/undergraduate-course-descriptions-spring-2023.

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature exploring contemporary Jewish literature.

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/undergraduate-course-descriptions-spring-2023.

This course aims to clarify basic facts and explore competing explanations for the origins and unfolding of the Holocaust (the encounter between the Third Reich and Europe's Jews between 1933 and 1945) that resulted in the deaths of almost six million Jews.

An introduction to the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and writing system of modern Israeli Hebrew.

An introduction to elementary biblical Hebrew, continuing HEBR 1410.

A continuation of the study of the fundamentals of grammar, with special attention to verb conjugation, noun declension, and syntactic structure, of modern Israeli Hebrew.

A continuation of Intermediate Biblical Hebrew I.

Independent study for advanced students in Hebrew.

Independent study for advanced students in Hebrew.

In this course, we will examine how the current refugee crisis may be seen as a radical event of a scope that reaches beyond Europe and the Middle East. We will be looking at previously-shaped images of nation, religion, migration, and integration, as well as asylum, refuge, and citizenship. Ultimately, we will be using our newly gained knowledge as a tool to understand cultural inclusion and societal exclusion both "far away" and "at home."

Studies the history, literature, and religion of ancient Israel in the light of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

Jewish and Muslim communities share a complex history of interaction, spanning from seventh-century Arabia to the present day, and including instances of collaboration as well as moments of violence. Our course examines this dynamic relationship through documentary and literary sources. We focus on points of contact between Muslims and Jews in contexts ranging from battlefields to universities, from religious discourse to international politics.

Studies religious meanings in modern literature, emphasizing faith and doubt, evil and absurdity, and wholeness and transcendence in both secular fiction and fiction written from traditional religious perspectives.

Readings in the prose narratives and poetry of the Hebrew Bible. Emphasizes grammar, vocabulary, and syntax. Attention to issues of translation and interpretation.

Prerequisite: HEBR 1420, or the equivalent.

This seminar will examine how the Holocaust altered the course of Jewish-Christian relations. Topics include Jewish-Christian relations in the early twentieth century, the history of interreligious work and activism between 1933 and 1945, and the significant theological issues addressed by Jews and Christians in the wake of the Holocaust.

Prophecy provides the theme for our comparative inquiry into two sacred scriptures (the Qur'an and the Hebrew Bible) alongside the rich traditions of Muslim and Jewish interpretive literature. We will consider narratives about specific prophets, medieval debates between and within Muslim and Jewish communities about the status and function of prophecy within their traditions, and modern theoretical approaches to prophecy.

This is a study Jewish feminism, starting from its early days, when scholars, writers and activists, inspired by the American women's movement, began by exploring women's historical position in Judaism and questioning how the tradition could be expanded for all if constraints of gender could be eliminated. This year we will pay particular attention to ways that Jewish feminists have transformed the Passover seder and will create a feminist seder of our own.

Introduces the study of religion as an interdisciplinary subject, utilizing methods in history of religions, theology, sociology, depth psychology, and literary criticism.

This tutorial, the third in a sequence on theopolitical thought in Modern Judaism, will focus on 20th-century Jewish philosophers, especially Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Leo Baeck, and Franz Rosenzweig. Their distinct views on the state, the nation, and the theocratic community, as well as how modern Christian thought grappled with similar questions, will be analyzed in the context of a crisis of politics during the interwar period.