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Israel Studies Courses 2008-2009

Fall 2008

Graduate courses

Sacrifice, Culture and Gender: From Isaac & Iphigenia to Contemporary Sacrificial Narratives
Yael S. Feldman

From Zionist-Sabra to Cosmopolitan-Israeli: The Transformation of Israel's Dominant Culture
Fred Lazin

Zionism and Health
Rakefet Zalashik

Jewish Philanthropy and Collective Responsibility in 19th & 20th Centuries
Ronald Zweig

 

Undergraduate

Modern Jewish History
David Engel

Modern Hebrew Literature: Re-Writing the Bible (in Hebrew)
Yael S. Feldman

The State of Israel, 1948-2006
Fred Lazin

The Holocaust and Israeli Society
Rakefet Zalashik

Jewish Community in Palestine Under the Ottoman and British, 1880-1948
Ronald Zweig

 

Spring 2009

Graduate courses

Topics in Hebrew Literature: Agnon and his "Children" (in Hebrew)
Yael S. Feldman

Israel and the Arab World: 1948-2008
Itamar Rabinovich

Seminar in Modern Jewish History: Failed Zionist Solutions
Rakefet Zalashik

History of the Yishuv: War of 1948 and the War of the Historians
Ronald Zweig


Undergraduate courses

Sex and Gender in the Bible
Yael S. Feldman

Collective Memory in Israel
Adi Portughies

Left, Right and the End of Ideology in Israel
Adi Portughies


Self and Other in the Israeli Short Story: Zionism and its Discontents (in Hebrew)
Eran Tzelgov


Issues in Israel's Social History
Rakefet Zalashik

World Cultures: Modern Israel
Ronald Zweig