Bachelor Jewish Studies (639 [4] - Version 2019)

1. Group of Compulsory Modules: Introductory and Orientation Period (17 ECTS)

1a. Compulsory module: Principles of Thinking in Historical and Cultural Studies (5 ECTS)

• EXAM STEOP Module examination "Basics of Historical and Cultural Thinking"
• 070201 VO StEOP: Basics of Historical and Cultural Thinking

1b. Compulsory Module: Introduction to Jewish Cultural History (4 ECTS)

• EXAM 1 b Compulsory Module: Introduction to Jewish Cultural History

1c. Compulsory Module: Biblical Hebrew for Jewish Studies Students (8 ECTS)

• EXAM 1 c Compulsory Module: Biblical Hebrew for Jewish Studies Students

2. Compulsory Module: Academic Methodology (9 ECTS)

• 060008 PS Scientific Writing

3. Compulsory Module: Hebrew (20 ECTS)

• 060006 UE Biblical Hebrew for Jewish Studies Students 2
• 060015 UE [ de he ] Modern Hebrew 1
• 060007 UE [ de he ] Modern Hebrew 3

4. Compulsory Module: History, Culture, Literature and Religion of Judaism (16 ECTS)

• 060009 VO Jewish Cultural History in the Middle Ages
• 060010 VO Jewish History from the Modern to the Contemporary Period

5. Compulsory Module: Main Sources of Jewish Cultural History (24 ECTS)

• 060003 SE ( REMOTE ) Between Home and Exile - Judaism in Light of ancient Texts from Judea, Egypt and Mesopotamia
• 060018 SE Midrash as halakhic and aggadic source
• 060021 SE Central themes in the Moreh Nevuchim of Moses Maimonides (1135/38-1204)

6. Compulsory Module: Module chosen according to interest: Jewish Cultural History (24 ECTS)

• 060002 VO Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages - Synagogues and churches in Byzantine Palestine
• 060019 VO The Yiddish Ma´asse-Book/Mayse-Bukh and its Rabbinic Sources
• 060001 VO From Lilith to Golem: Introduction to Visual Jewish Cultural History - Film and Media
• 060014 VO The Female Challenge: Women in Israeli Film
• 060027 VO Images of Horror - the presentation of the Shoah in international feature films
• 060028 VO Jewish Image in American Film
• 060050 VO ( REMOTE ) Pogrom - An (Un)intellectual History of the Persecution of Judaism
• 060004 VO ( REMOTE ) The History of Antisemitism in Antiquity
• 060029 VO Literary Landscape Galicia and Bukovina: German-speaking Jewish Authors
• 060012 VO [ de he ] Modern Hebrew, RAMA BET/GIMEL
• 060020 SE The Jewish Rediscovery of the Orient and the Jewish Orientalists - The Orient as a narrative of origin. European Summer-University in Hohenems, 11.06.-16.06.2023
• 060026 SE ( REMOTE ) The National Strategy against Antisemitism - Two Years of Combating Antisemitism in Austria
• 060040 SE 20th-Century Jewish Thought - An Introduction

7. Compulsory Module: Final Module (10 ECTS)

• 060017 SE Film as Midrash - Seminar with Bachelor's paper