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Judaic Studies
CO-DIRECTORS:
Associate Professor Gloria J. Ascher, German and Judaic
studies
Associate Professor Joel Rosenberg, Lee S. McCollester
Associate Professor of Biblical Literature; Judaic studies
CORE FACULTY:
Professor Sol Gittleman, Alice and Nathan Gantcher
University Professor of Judaic Studies; German and Judaic
studies
Professor Barbara Wallace Grossman, Drama
Professor Joseph Litvak, English
Professor Jonathan M. Wilson, English
Lecturer Janis Bellow-Freedman, English
Lecturer Hedda Harari-Spencer, Hebrew and Judaic studies
Lecturer Peggy Hutaff, Religion
Research Professor/Rabbi Jeffrey Summit, Judaic studies
The program in Judaic Studies encompasses study
of some 4,000 years of ancient Israelite and ancient,
medieval, and modern Jewish civilization, with
attention to the influence of Israelite and Jewish
culture on the many cultural and religious traditions
that grew from it. The major in Judaic studies
comprises the courses listed below under Hebrew
and Judaic Studies and a number of primary or
related courses in other departments.
UNDERGRADUATE concentrATION
REQUIREMENTS
The major in Judaic studies consists of ten courses
—eight primary courses and two related courses.
Courses in Hebrew language at the level of Hebrew
21, 22, and 121, 122 may be counted as primary
courses. Courses not listed below, offered at Tufts
and elsewhere, are acceptable upon approval of the
program directors (Professor Gloria Ascher, Olin
332, and Professor Joel Rosenberg, Olin 322), but
at least four of the primary courses must be taken at
Tufts. Students majoring in Judaic studies must have
the equivalent of three years of Hebrew, or two
years of Hebrew and two years of a second language
related to the student’s special interests within the
field. Qualified students majoring in Judaic studies
are encouraged to consider participating in the
Thesis Honors Program.
Primary Courses:
Drama 162 Imagining the Holocaust on Stage and Screen
English 159 Contemporary Jewish Fiction
English 162 Philip Roth and Company
English 164 Imagining the Jew
Judaic Studies 48 Israeli Film
Judaic Studies 52 Technology and Jewish Oral Tradition
Judaic Studies 65 Introduction to Yiddish Culture
Judaic Studies 73 Aspects of the Sephardic Tradition
Judaic Studies 78 Jewish Women
Judaic Studies 84 The Sources of Jewish Tradition
Judaic Studies 91-01 Ladino Language and Culture
Judaic Studies 92-01 Introduction to Judaism
Judaic Studies 92 Special Topics
Judaic Studies 93 Directed Study
Judaic Studies 95 Topics in Jewish Literature
Judaic Studies 96 Introduction to the Talmud
Judaic Studies 99 Judaic Studies Internship
Judaic Studies 126 Roots of the Jewish Imagination
Judaic Studies 132 The Book of Genesis and Its
Interpreters
Judaic Studies 136 King David and the Israelite Monarchy
Judaic Studies 142 Jewish Experience on Film
Judaic Studies 150 Music and Prayer in the Jewish
Tradition
Judaic Studies 159 Contemporary Jewish Fiction
(cross-listed as English 159)
Judaic Studies 162 Philip Roth and Company (cross-listed
as English 162)
Judaic Studies 164 Representing the Jew (cross-listed as
English 164)
Judaic Studies 191 Special Topics
Judaic Studies 193, 194 Advanced Directed Study
Judaic Studies 198, 199 Senior Honors Thesis
Religion 21 Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
Related Courses
Related courses establish links between Judaic
studies and other disciplines by examining such
topics as countries or regions that are major sites of
Jewish civilization, past or present; the life of
cosmopolitan and multiethnic societies more
generally; the dynamics of tradition; the impact of
modernity and historical crisis on traditional
societies; issues of philosophy, ethics, myth, religion,
and spirituality that bear upon Jewish life and
thought; issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality
in the life of a culture; the legacy of biblical and
Jewish tradition in world cultures. A student may,
with the approval of the program directors,
substitute an appropriate course not on this list.
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