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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 Society (2018)
Steven M. Cohen, Research Professor of Jewish Policy at HUC-JIR and Director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at Stanford University
Steven M. Cohen, Research Professor of Jewish Policy at HUC-JIR and Director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at Stanford University
Essential Reading “Israel’s Religiously Divided Society,” Pew Research Center, March 8, 2016 "Together and Apart: Israeli Jews’ Views on their Relationship to American Jews and Religious Pluralism," Findings from the Survey of Israeli Jews…
Syllabus Jewish and Democratic: Religion, State, and Cultural Duality (2018)
Yedidia Stern, Vice President of Research at the Israel Democracy Institute and Professor of Law at Bar-Ilan University
Yedidia Stern, Vice President of Research at the Israel Democracy Institute and Professor of Law at Bar-Ilan University
This SIIS faculty syllabus provides a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between state and religion in Israel, as well as the cultural products of this complex issue. Essential Reading…
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 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 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 Legal Controversies in Israeli History - Alexander Kaye (Spring 2019)
Alexander Kaye
Alexander Kaye
NEJS 160 - Legal Controversies in Israeli History Spring 2019 Instructor: Alexander Kaye (NEJS) Course Description This course will explore key issues in the politics, culture and society of…
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…
Syllabus Religion and Society (2019)
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
Dear All, I'm greatly looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks. In our meeting we'll be talking about "religion and society," a cast topic in any situation and…