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 REMOTE STEOP Module examination "Basics of Historical and Cultural Thinking"
• 070115 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)

2. Compulsory Module: Academic Methodology (9 ECTS)

• 060008 PS Academic Writing for Students of Judaic Studies

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)

• 060014 SE The book of Esaiah and its interpreters in Antiquity
• 060018 SE Work in Progress: Yerushalmi Introduction to the Talmud of the Land of Israel

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

PM6 - VO

• 060001 VO What is Jewish film? An introduction to visual Jewish culture - using the example of British-Jewish film
• 060012 VO Reading and Speaking in Modern Hebrew for Students of Jewish Studies
• 060017 VO Beyond "Pious and Rebellious": Jewish Women in the Middle Ages
• 060039 VO Cultural and Literary Landscapes of Galicia and Bukovina: The Work of Jewish Authors
• 060050 VO Antisemitism Through the Centuries: Histories of Hatred and Persecution

PM6 - SE

• 060002 SE Film as Midrash
• 060022 SE [ de en he ] "In the Director´s Chair Sits a Woman": Women in front and behind the camera in Israeli Cinema
• 060032 SE The Jew as vampire: On the genesis and function of an anti-Semitic stereotype
• 060003 SE The Geonim as Intermediaries: Jewish Learning between Talmudic Tradition and the Medieval World
• 060013 SE [ de he ] Sources to the History of the State of Israel (in Hebrew)
• 060016 SE Jewish object cultures
• 060004 SE Religions and Politics - A Complex Interrelationship, Seggau Summer School
• 060005 SE Gone and Away: About Jewish Travelers

7. Compulsory Module: Final Module (10 ECTS)

• 060011 SE Judaism and Space: Concepts and Narratives - Seminar with Bachelor's paper

Recommended courses of other departments

• 010014 SE The biblical Judith and her reception history
• 010093 SE [ en ] Judaism in Europe
• 020009 SE ( ON-SITE ) Interdisciplinary Research for Master Degree Programme
• 090100 VO [ en ] Lecture Series: Religious Communities and Manuscript Cultures on the Medieval Silk Road
• 090116 UE [ en ] From the Ottoman Empire to the Greek nation-state: Jewish history and identity