Spring 2023 Course Offerings
Note
All JUST undergraduate courses that are 3000 and higher (except JUST 3065, JUST 5532 W, and JUST 5582) and 4000-level HEBR courses are considered capstone courses. Choose any one to satisfy the capstone course requirement for yeshiva/seminary transfer credits from an Israeli institution. Cross-listed courses taught by faculty outside the department do not count as a capstone.
Judaic Studies Courses
JUST 1145 Classical Jewish Texts
Monday and Wednesday, 6:30–7:45 p.m. (Yoreh)
Online (Pathways: World Cultures)
JUST 2017 Jewish Approaches to Ethical Issues
Tuesday and Thursday, 3:40–4:55 p.m. (Shapiro)
Online (Pathways: Individual and Society)
JUST 2085 Jews of New York
Tuesday and Thursday, 2:15–3:30 p.m. (Shevin)
In person (Pathways: U.S. Experience in Its Diversity)
JUST 3022 Searching for God: Ancient Greeks, Jews, and Christinas
Tuesday and Thursday, 11 a.m.–12:15 p.m. (Brodsky)
In Person (Capstone)
JUST 3046 The Shtetl in History and Literature
Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30–7:45 p.m. (Shapiro)
Online (Capstone)
JUST 3050 History of the Holocaust
Monday and Wednesday, 11 a.m.–12:15 p.m. (Shapiro)
Online (Capstone)
JUST 3065 Readings in Talmud
Friday, 12:50–1:40 p.m. (Brodsky)
Online (1 Credit, CR/NC)
JUST 4034 Kabbalah and Messianism
Monday and Wednesday, 2:15–3:30 p.m. (Flatto)
In person (Capstone)
HEBR 1001 Elementary Hebrew I
Monday and Wednesday, 12:50–2:05 p.m. (Garti-Bar)
In person (LOTE)
HEBR 1002 Elementary Hebrew II
Monday and Wednesday, 11 a.m.–12:15 p.m. (Garti-Bar)
In person (LOTE)
Professors
![David Brodsky, Ph.D., New York University](/web/aca_socialsciences_judaic/BIO_BrodskyDavid_200x135.jpg)
David Brodsky, Ph.D., New York University
David Brodsky, Ph.D., New York University
Associate Professor Brodsky is the department chair. He specializes in rabbinical literature, Talmud, Midrash, Zoroastrianism and Christian Syriac.
![Allan Amanik Ph.D., New York University](/web/aca_socialsciences_judaic/FACULTY-Amanik_280x220.jpg)
Allan Amanik Ph.D., New York University
Allan Amanik, Ph.D., New York University
Associate Professor Amanik specializes in American Jewish history and culture, immigration, the family, and political activism.
![Beverly Bailis, Ph.D., Jewish Theological Seminary](/web/aca_socialsciences_judaic/BIO_BailisBeverly_200x245.jpg)
Beverly Bailis, Ph.D., Jewish Theological Seminary
Beverly Bailis, Ph.D., Jewish Theological Seminary
Adjunct Professor Bailis specializes in modern Hebrew and Jewish literature.
![Sharon Flatto, Ph.D., Yale University](/web/aca_socialsciences_judaic/BIO_FlattoSharon_200x145.jpg)
Sharon Flatto, Ph.D., Yale University
Sharon Flatto, Ph.D., Yale University
Professor Flatto specializes in modern Jewish history and thought, Kabbalah, and the modernization of Central European Jewish history.
![Sara Reguer, Ph.D., Columbia University](/web/aca_socialsciences_judaic/BIO_ReguerSara_200x206.jpg)
Sara Reguer, Ph.D., Columbia University
Sara Reguer, Ph.D., Columbia University
Professor Reguer specializes in the history of the Jewish woman, Italian Jewry and Mandate Palestine / modern Israel.
![Robert M. Shapiro, Ph.D., Columbia University](/web/aca_socialsciences_judaic/BIO_ShapiroRobert_200x252.jpg)
Robert M. Shapiro, Ph.D., Columbia University
Robert M. Shapiro, Ph.D., Columbia University
Professor Shapiro specializes in 20th-century Jewish history, history of the Holocaust, Eastern European Jewish history, and Yiddish.