Courses
Current courses
JWST 201.03 Israeli Pop Culture
Instructor: Keren Ayalon
Ever wondered why Israeli television is all over Netflix, or why Sabra hummus came to dominate your supermarket shelves? In this course, we will examine multiple forms of popular culture, including television, music, social media, fashion, and more, to understand contemporary Israeli society, with a focus on debates over language, gender, and politics in a global context.
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JWST 201.04 The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Instructor: Yaron Ayalon
The land, which for Jews is ancestral Eretz Israel and for the Arabs is Palestine, has been at the center of one of the modern world’s longest and most intricate disputes. This course will provide students with the background and understanding of the history of the Conflict, from its roots to recent developments. Through examining a wide range of sources, we will study the Conflict from multiple perspectives and histories.
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JWST335.01/HIST 350/POLS 359 Modern Jewish Politics
Instructor: Joshua Shanes
This course explores the rise and development of Jewish political movements in three areas – Europe, Palestine/Israel, and the United States – from the late nineteenth century until today. We start in Eastern Europe, the source both of modern Jewish political ideologies as well as the Jews themselves, millions of whom emigrated to America and Palestine/Israel just over a century ago. These movements transformed modern Jewish life while impacting broader society and even international relations. In this way, the history of modern Jewish politics has profound implications beyond the Jewish world from which it arose.
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