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

Orientation Course

• 060094 OV ( OV ) Orientation Course Jewish Studies - Bachelor - Orientierungsveranstaltung für Studienbeginner*innen

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"
• 070245 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
• 060017 VO ( STEOP ) 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
• 060015 PUE ( STEOP ) Biblical Hebrew for Jewish Studies Students 1

2. Compulsory Module: Academic Methodology (9 ECTS)

• 060018 UE Scientific Concepts

3. Compulsory Module: Hebrew (20 ECTS)

• 060016 UE [ de he ] Modern Hebrew 2

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

• 060021 VO Jewish Cultural History in the Ancient Period
• 060025 VO History of rabbinic literature and culture

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

• 060010 SE ( REMOTE ) The Dead Sea Scrolls
• 060008 SE Medieval Hebrew Women’s Medicine: Selected Texts
• 060007 SE [ de he ] The History of the State of Israel – the Mandate for Palestine
• 060046 SE Graphic Novels and American-Jewish History

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

PM6 - VO

• 060002 VO [ en ] The Origins of Judaism: From Bible to Talmud
• 060004 VO Jewish Wisdom Literature: Antiquity and Late Antiquity
• 060009 VO ( REMOTE ) The Ideology of Jew-Hatred - Antisemitism Then and Now
• 060028 VO From Dieterle to Zinnemann: Jewish Emigration to Hollywood

PM6 - SE

• 060003 SE [ en ] Introduction to Idolatry
• 060005 SE Jewish Narrative Art Through the Ages
• 060011 SE ( REMOTE ) Antisemitism from the Right
• 060026 SE ( REMOTE ) Combatting Antisemitism
• 060022 SE From Caligari to Hitler: Propaganda Through Entertainment

7. Compulsory Module: Final Module (10 ECTS)

Recommended courses of other departments

• 030078 VO Lecture Series: "Jews und Jewries in Austria. A Legal History"
• 020005 VO-L ( MIXED ) Old Testament Exegesis
• 020004 VO-L ( MIXED ) History of Israel
• 020008 SE Old Testament Seminar - Das Hiobbuch
• 020007 UE UE Konversation in Hebrew
• 020006 UE Translation of Hebrew Biblical Texts
• 010047 SE “Magnifica Humanitas”: Church’s Social Teaching, Peace, and AI
• 010051 SE Is the New Testament anti-Jewish? An overview of the most problematic passages in the New Testament - Ein Überblick über die problematischsten Stellen des Neuen Testaments
• 090075 VO The Jews of Byzantium
• 090098 VU [ en ] Greek Jews and the Holocaust: literary and linguistic aspects
• 180091 SE ( KPH-W-NÖ ) Humanity, Power, and Society in Jewish Thought
• 180098 SE ( KPH-W-NÖ ) Human Beings and Creation in Judaism and in Interreligious Dialogue