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
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
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
Beverly Bailis, Ph.D., Jewish Theological Seminary
Adjunct Professor Bailis specializes in modern Hebrew and Jewish literature.
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
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
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.
