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Syllabus Defining Status in the Modern State: Citizens, Nationals and Refugees — Maham Ayaz (Spring 2021)
Maham Ayaz
Maham Ayaz
Defining Status in the Modern State: Citizens, Nationals and Refugees (NEJS 85a) Instructor: Maham Ayaz Essential Readings for the course: Castes, Stephen and Mark J. Miller. The Age of Migration.…
Syllabus Ethnic Minorities in the Modern State of Israel – Rima Farah (Spring 2021)
Rima Farah
Rima Farah
Ethnic Minorities in the Modern State of Israel (HBRW 152b) Instructor: Rima Farah Course Narrative: Israel was established as a Jewish nation-state. However, the state is characterized by its…
Syllabus History of the State of Israel - Alexander Kaye (Fall 2019)
Alexander Kaye
Alexander Kaye
History of the State of Israel (NEJS 145a) Instructor: Alexander Kaye Course Description This course is a survey of the political, social and cultural history of the State of Israel.…
Syllabus Religion and Society (2018)
Yehudah Mirsky, Associate Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University
Yehudah Mirsky, Associate Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University
Required Reading Yehudah Mirsky, "A Tale of Two Judaisms," Daily Beast, June 1, 2012 Yehudah Mirsky, "History's Most Powerful Rabbi," First Things, December 2013 Recommended Reading "The State of Israel," The…
Syllabus Israeli Politics (2017)
Brent Sasley, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Arlington
Brent Sasley, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Arlington
Required Readings Brent Sasley and Harold Waller, Politics in Israel: Governing a Complex Society, (Oxford University Press, 2017). Chapters 3, 8, 9. Recommended Readings Taub…
Syllabus Israeli Music (2018)
Mark Kligman, Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Mark Kligman, Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Essential Reading Philip V. Bohlman, “Afterword Shireh ‘Am, Shireh Medinah (Folk Song, National Song) in Hans Nathan," ed. Israeli Folk Music: Songs of the Early Pioneers (Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 1994), pp.…
Syllabus Israel’s Foreign Policy (2018)
Uri Bialer, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Visiting Professor at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University
Uri Bialer, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Visiting Professor at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University
This SIIS faculty syllabus provides a in-depth look at the history and development of Israel's foreign policy goals and addresses a number of critical issues, including: the Arab-Israeli conflict, migration,…
Syllabus Zionist Settlement – Colonialism or Colonization? (2018)
Ilan Troen, Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies, Brandeis University
Ilan Troen, Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies, Brandeis University
This SIIS faculty syllabus provides a comprehensive list of essential readings related to Zionism and the settling of land in Palestine/Israel. The syllabus also includes material on important debates related to…
Syllabus Israeli Society (2018)
David Ellenson, Director, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, and Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University
David Ellenson, Director, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, and Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University
Essential Readings: David Ellenson,The Rock from Which They Were Cleft, Jewish Review of Books, Winter 2012 Donna Robinson Divine, Citizenship and Democracy in Israel in: S. I. Troen & R. Fish (eds.), Essential Israel…
Syllabus Palestinian Nationalism - One Century Overview (2018)
As'ad Ghanem, Head of the Government and Political Philosophy Department at the School of Political Science, University of Haifa
As'ad Ghanem, Head of the Government and Political Philosophy Department at the School of Political Science, University of Haifa
Presentation Powerpoint View in PDF format. Essential Readings As'ad Ghanem. 2009 "Palestinian Politics after Arafat: The Predicament of the 'Palestinian National Movement'," Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. 24:4, pp. 465–487…
Syllabus Israeli Politics (2018)
Brent Sasley, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Arlington
Brent Sasley, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Arlington
Presentation Powerpoint View in PDF format. Required Readings Brent Sasley and Harold Waller, Politics in Israel: Governing a Complex Society, (Oxford University Press, 2017). Chapters 3, 8, 9.…
Syllabus The U.S. and Peace Negotiations (2018)
Daniel Kurtzer, Lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies, Princeton University
Daniel Kurtzer, Lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies, Princeton University
Presentation Powerpoint View in PDF format. Essential Reading Ilan Goldenberg, Lessons from the 2013–2014 Israeli-Palestinian Final Status Negotiations, Voices from the Field Series, Center for a New American Security,…
Syllabus Walker Robins - American Evangelicals and Israel
Walker Robins
Walker Robins
Presentation Powerpoint View in PDF format. Essential Readings: Shalom Goldman, "Introduction: the Two Zionisms," from Zeal for Zion (UNC, 2014) Richard Cogley, "The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Restoration…
Syllabus Political Islam – The Case of Hamas (2018)
Elie Rekhess, Visiting Crown Chair in Middle East Studies, Northwestern University; Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
Elie Rekhess, Visiting Crown Chair in Middle East Studies, Northwestern University; Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
This SIIS faculty syllabus explores the history and features of political Islam with an emphasis on Hamas. The history and nature of Hamas is examined in relation to Islamic fundamentalism…
Syllabus Palestinian History and State Formation (2018)
Abigail Jacobson, Senior lecturer at the Department of Islamic and Middle Easter Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Abigail Jacobson, Senior lecturer at the Department of Islamic and Middle Easter Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Presentation Powerpoint View in PDF format. Essential Reading Abdel Monem Said Ali, Shai Feldman, Khalil Shikaki, Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East (Pelgrve, 2013), pp. 7-84 (ch. 1-2)…
Syllabus Palestinian Politics and Peacemaking (2019)
Ghaith al-Omari, Senior Fellow, Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship, The Washington Institute
Ghaith al-Omari, Senior Fellow, Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship, The Washington Institute
Essential Readings Ghaith Al-Omari, “Palestinian Succession: An Overview Of Institutional Turmoil,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, No. 28, October 2015. Ghaith Al-Omari: Oslo’s Mangled Legacy Hussein Agha and Ahmad…
Syllabus Music in Israeli Life and Culture (2019)
Mark Kligman, Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Mark Kligman, Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Essential Readings: Philip V. Bohlman, "Afterword Shireh ‘Am, Shireh Medinah (Folk Song, National Song)" in Hans Nathan, ed. Israeli Folk Music: Songs of the Early Pioneers (Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 1994), pp.…
Syllabus The U.S. & Peace Negotiations (2019)
Daniel Kurtzer, Lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies, Princeton University
Daniel Kurtzer, Lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies, Princeton University
Daniel Kurtzer, “Choices Facing the United States: Greater Israel or Global Israel?” Israel Studies, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Fall 2018), pp. 246-252. Daniel Kurtzer, “Waiting for Uncle Sam: ‘Ten Commandments’…
Syllabus Israel's Foreign Policy (2019)
Tamara Wittes
Tamara Wittes
Essential Readings: Shai Feldman and Tamara Cofman Wittes, “Everyone Loves Israel Now,” ForeignPolicy.com 26 March 2018, accessible at https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/26/why-everyone-loves-israel-now/ Charles Freilich, Zion’s Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National Security…
Syllabus Israel: Jewish and Democratic? (2019)
Alexander Kaye
Alexander Kaye
Gavison, Ruth. “Jewish and Democratic? A Rejoinder to the ‘Ethnic Democracy’ Debate.” Israel Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 1999, pp. 44–72. Smooha, Sammy. “Ethnic Democracy: Israel as an Archetype.” Israel…
Syllabus Israel and the Middle East (2019)
Asher Susser, Professor of History and Senior Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University
Asher Susser, Professor of History and Senior Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University
This SIIS faculty syllabus explores the relationship between Israel and the Middle East in terms of the Arab-Israeli conflict and political developments in the Middle East. Essential Reading Asher…
Syllabus Gender in Israel (2019)
Shayna Weiss, Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Israel Studies, United States Naval Academy
Shayna Weiss, Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Israel Studies, United States Naval Academy
Presentation Powerpoint View in PDF format. The study of gender in Israel is closely linked to an examination of its founding ideology, Zionism. Zionism, the movement for collective settlement…
Syllabus Zionist Settlement (2019)
Liora Halperin
Liora Halperin
Prof. Liora Halperin (University of Washington) Essential Reading Shafir, Gershon. Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 1882-1914. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Yuval Ben-Bassat &…
Syllabus The Impact of the Shoah on Israeli Society (2019)
Laura Jockusch
Laura Jockusch
Required Reading: Dalia Ofer, “The Past that Does Not Pass: Israelis and Holocaust Memory,” Israel Studies 14,1 (2009), 1-35. Yehiam Weitz, “The Holocaust on Trial: The Impact of…