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THE JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM IS A BENEFICIARY
OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE.
JEWISH JEWISH STUDIES STUDIES
at the University of Washington
NEWSLETTER
VOLUME XIV, NUMBER 1 AUTUMN 2003
THE HENRY M. JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
NEW CHAIR OF JEWISH STUDIES
Professor Paul Burstein
Dr. Anand Yang, director of the Henry
M. Jackson School of International Studies,
is pleased to announce the appointment
of Professor Paul Burstein as chair of the
Jewish Studies Program, effective immediately.
Professor Burstein, a professor of
sociology and adjunct professor of political
science at the UW, has been a member
of the Jewish Studies faculty since 1987.
He received his B.A. in sociology from
the University of Chicago (1968), and his
M.A. (1971) and Ph.D. (1974) in sociology
from Harvard, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation
on “Social Structure and Politics in Israel.”
Much of Burstein’s research focuses on discrimination,
particularly in employment. His work on discrimination
on the basis of religion, “Religious Pluralism, Equal Opportunity,
and the State,” was supported by the American
Jewish Committee. Locally, he served on the committees
at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle that planned
and oversaw the 1990 and 2000 demographic surveys of
the Jewish population around Puget Sound.
This past spring quarter, Professor Burstein presented
a new course, “The American Jewish Community,” in both
Jewish Studies and Sociology. The course considers how
life in the United States has affected the Jewish community,
and how the Jewish community in turn has affected
American society.
Burstein says he is honored to have been asked to
become chair of the Jewish Studies Program. “If the Jewish
community is to flourish in the United States,” he says,
“as a real community, not just a collection of individuals
AUTUMN 2002 CONTENTS
From the Chair ...................................... 1
Year in Review ....................................... 1
Visiting Committee ............................... 2
Program Faculty .................................... 3
Faculty News ................................... 3-4-5
Visiting Faculty ...................................... 5
Migdal New President of AIS ............... 5
Paul Burstein
YEAR IN REVIEW
Where to Find Jewish Studies Courses 5
Stroum Lectureship ............................ 6-7
Sokoloff New Stroum Chair .................. 7
Braun New Hazel D. Cole Fellow ......... 8
Israel Studies and New Courses ........... 8
Scholarships .......................................... 9
who happen to be Jewish, it is critical that
Jews understand themselves. And if the
Jewish community is to matter in the
larger society, it is critical that non-Jews
be provided the opportunity to learn
about it as well. The Jewish Studies Program
at the UW, through its faculty’s
teaching and research, seeks to further
such learning and understanding.”
Burstein’s wife, Florence, is an employee
benefits consultant and President
of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Day
School, where the youngest of their three
children is an eighth-grader; their two
older children are college students.
With growing course offerings and stimulating community
education outreach, the past year has been a time
of exciting challenges for the Jewish Studies Program. We
will look increasingly to the Friends of the Jewish Studies
Program in order to maintain and grow the Program.
Among the most inspiring accomplishments of our
28th year, we can point to the appointment of Professor
Naomi Sokoloff as the new Samuel and Althea Stroum
Chair in Jewish Studies. As holder of this distinguished
Chair for three years, Professor Sokoloff, an expert on
modern Jewish literature, will present a series of public
and campus lectures.
The Jewish Studies Program has enjoyed increasing
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New Courses ......................................... 9
A Portrait from the Archives .............. 10
Where are They Now? ........................ 10
Developing a Relationship with JS ..... 11
Donors ................................................. 11
Courses in Jewish Studies 2003–2004 12

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interest in our American Jewish Studies area of concentration,
and looks forward with excitement to
the coming year. Thanks to the generosity of the
late Samuel Stroum and Althea Stroum, we expect
to launch a nationwide search for the new Samuel
and Althea Stroum Assistant Professor in Jewish
Studies, whose world will focus on the study of
Jews in the United States.
The appointment of Marina Rustow to the
2002–2003 Hazel D. Cole Fellow enhanced our
course offerings and public programming concerning
Jews and Arabs and Medieval Jewish
History. We congratulate her on her postdoc at the
Center for Advanced Jewish Studies in Philadelphia
and her appointment as assistant professor at Emory
University in the Department of History beginning
in the fall of 2003. For the coming year we are fortunate
to welcome Alisa Braun from the University
of Michigan who will teach a course and deliver
public lectures on Yiddish Culture in America.
Thanks to the generosity and hard work of the
Jewish Studies Visiting Committee together with
Rochelle Roseman, Jewish Studies Program Development
and Outreach Coordinator, the Program
was able to offer two newly created scholarships
for excellent students with a serious ongoing
Kathie Friedman
THE JEWISH STUDIES VISITING COMMITTEE BECOMES A TEAM
The Jewish Studies
Visiting Committee first
came together, formally,
in November
2002. Since then, it has
begun to share its enthusiasm
and interest
in Jewish Studies to connect
the Program with
the greater Seattle
Jewish community for
mutual benefit. The
committee has been
working to bring increased
awareness,
understanding and
appreciation of the
achievements of the
Jewish Studies Program.
One important objective
of the committee
is to foster an understanding
of the value the Program offers the region with its
comprehensive examination of all aspects of Jewish experience.
Another is to raise public awareness in the broader
community of the research and teaching excellence of the
Program scholars and to encourage alliances that make use
of these talents.
A major objective of the committee, also, is to contribute
to the Jewish Studies Program’s fundraising efforts through
personal contributions and donor cultivation.
Rochelle Roseman
“…I wish to thank all
the Friends of Jewish
Studies upon whom we
depend so heavily for
financial support and
for links to the broader
community. …(and) the
outstanding faculty…
for tireless donations of
their time both to the
Program and to the
community….”
interest in Jewish Studies. The Jewish Studies Program
is fortunate to have a dedicated Visiting
Committee, which has become an important
force behind the Program’s development campaign.
It will continue to be key to its success.
With its help, we intend to establish two endowed
scholarships in Jewish Studies to ensure future
opportunities for outstanding students.
The 2002–2003 academic year was my final
year as Chair of the Program, and in closing I wish
to thank all the Friends of Jewish Studies upon
whom we depend so heavily for financial support
and for links to the broader community.
I especially want to express my gratitude to the
outstanding faculty in Jewish Studies over the past
two years for tireless donations of their time both
to the Program and to the community in terms
of developing many new courses and delivering
countless public lectures.
With the beginning of the new academic year
and the new Jewish year, I would like to extend
my greetings to our students, alumni, faculty,
colleagues, and friends with hopes for a year of
growing wisdom and peace to all.
~ Kathie Friedman
former Chair Jewish Studies
An example of its
success has been the
new student scholarships
(see article on
page 9). In a short time,
the committee was able
to fund the first two
scholarships for this
academic year. Going
forward, it endeavors to
continue funding them
through the creation of
an endowment.
The Program is
grateful to the visiting
committee and appreciates
its continued
support. Current members
are Dorothy and
Jerry Becker, Timmie
Faghin, Linda Gould,
Al and Jeannie Maimon,
Ann Nieder, Herb and Lucy Pruzan, Betty Ann Richmond, Gil
and Miriam Roth, Sam and Sue Tarica, and Ina Willner.
Honorary members are Rabbi Dan Bridge and Carol Starin.
Back, left to right: Timmie Faghin, Jack Faghin z”l, Sue Tarica, Ernie Michael,
Gil Roth, Betty Ann Richmond, Al Maimon, Sam Tarica
Center: Kathie Friedman, Linda Gould, Ina Willner, Dorothy Becker
Front: Ann Neider, Miriam Roth. Not pictured: Lucy and Herb Pruzan
To know more about the Jewish Studies Visiting Committee
or to be a part of this special group, get in touch with
Rochelle Roseman. Call 206.543.0138 or
e-mail roseman@u.washington.edu

JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM FACULTY 2003–2004
Jere Bacharach, Ph.D., University of Michigan (1967);
Professor, History; Jews under Islam
Paul Burstein, Chair, Ph.D., Harvard (1974);
Professor, Sociology; The American Jewish Community
Joseph Butwin, Ph.D., Harvard (1971);
Associate Professor, English; Jews in the literature of England,
Jewish American immigrant literature
Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg, Ph.D., University of Washington (1996);
Visiting Scholar; American Jewish history
Kathie Friedman, Ph.D., State University of New York at
Binghamton (1991); Associate Professor, Jackson School of
International Studies; Adjunct, Sociology and Women Studies;
comparative immigration and ethnicity, contemporary Jewish
American identities; Jewish women in contemporary America
Hillel Gamoran, D.H.L., Spertus College (1966);
Visiting Lecturer; Rabbinic literature
Susan A. Glenn, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1983);
Professor, History; Jews and Blacks
Martin S. Jaffee, Ph.D., Brown (1980); Professor, Jackson School
of International Studies; Adjunct, Near Eastern Languages and
Civilization; Post-Biblical and Rabbinic Judaism
Deborah Kerdeman, Ph.D., Stanford (1991); Associate Professor,
Education; philosophy of education, Jewish education
Levis A. Kochin, Ph.D., Chicago (1975);
Associate Professor, Economics; Israeli economics
FACULTY NEWS
Professor Jere L. Bacharach served as director of the
American Research Center in Egypt since mid-December,
stepping down at the end of June with the appointment
of a long-term ARCE director. While Professor Bacharach
felt safe in Egypt, family and friends in the U.S. were understandably
concerned, particularly during the period of
the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. As director, Professor
Bacharach dealt with a wide variety of Egyptians and Americans,
from officials, ambassadors and ministers, to workmen
who removed dirt from excavation sites. Last fall he
presented a successful five-part series of lectures for the
UW Simpson Center for the Humanities on the history and
culture of the Islamic Middle East through the fifteenth
century. This coming fall will be his last as a regular member
of the UW faculty. He plans to retire during this coming
academic year.
Professor Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg presented “The Young
Adventurers“ at the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild conference
in Seattle, WA in March 2003. Drawn from her
dissertation, this paper tells the story of Washington
Territory’s young Jewish men and women entrepreneurs
who, with an adventurous spirit and against the backdrop
of a raw new territory, capably created business models
that differed from those seen elsewhere in America. It also
acknowledges the contributions they made to the growth
of what would become Washington State’s many Jewish
communities.
Professor Kathie Friedman served as the chair of the Jewish
Studies Program for the past two academic years. She,
along with Professor Katharyne Mitchell (Geography), has
been awarded a Curriculum Transformation Grant, which
will focus on The Comparative Diaspora. It is the first of its
kind to be granted for Jewish Studies. Professor Friedman
Joel S. Migdal, Ph.D., Harvard (1972);
Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; Adjunct,
Political Science; Arabs and Jews in Israel and Palestine
Scott Noegel, Ph.D., Cornell (1995);
Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
and Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Hebrew Bible,
Near Eastern languages and literature
Michael A. Rosenthal, Ph.D., University of Chicago (1996);
Associate Professor, philosophy; Spinoza and Jewish
Philosophy
Naomi B. Sokoloff, Ph.D., Princeton (1980); Professor, Near
Eastern Languages and Civilization; Adjunct, Women Studies;
Hebrew language and literature; The Holocaust and Literature
Robert Stacey, Ph.D., Yale (1983);
Professor, History; Medieval Jewish history
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Ph.D., Stanford (1999); Assistant Professor,
Jackson School of International Studies and History; Modern
Jewish History, Eastern European Jewry; Sephardic Studies
Joan Ullman, Ph.D.,Bryn Mawr (1963);
Professor Emeritus; History; Jews in the History of Spain
Brannon Wheeler, Ph.D., University of Chicago (1993);
Associate Professor, Near East Languages and Civilization;
Islamic Studies, History of the Study of Religion, Jewish
Languages
Hazel D. Cole Fellow 2003–04 Alisa Braun, University of Michigan
and husband, Professor Resat Kasaba, welcomed daughter,
Melis, into their home in March.
Professor Hillel Gamoran delivered “How the Rishonim Met
the Clash Between Credit Sales and the Law Against Usury”
at the Jewish Law Association conference in Jerusalem. He is
the editor of The Jewish Law Association Studies, Volume XIV,
which covered the Jerusalem conference proceedings. His
most recent publication is Talmud for Everyday Living: Insights
into Buying and Selling, designed for synagogue adult education
classes. In addition, he taught “Issues of Life and Death
in the Talmud” at the Temple Beth Am mini-University, and
spoke, along with his son Saul, at UW Hillel on “Jewish Business
Ethics.” He serves as chair of the Hebrew Literacy Task
Force of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
Professor Martin S. Jaffee, acting chair of the Comparative
Religion Program, served as a respondent to a series of
papers on “Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity” in
recognition of his ongoing research in rabbinic oral tradition,
and will be published in Semeia: An Experimental Journal for
Biblical Criticism. Also, commissioned entries, “Discipleship”
and “Oral Torah” will appear in the second edition of The
Encyclopedia of Religion. Professor Jaffee continues to serve on
the board of editors for Religious Studies Review and the Journal
of the American Academy of Religion. In January 2003, he,
along with friend and colleague, Hillel Kieval (Washington
University), accepted co-editorship of the AJS Review, the
Association for Jewish Studies journal and leading international
forum for scholarship in Judaism and Jewish civilizations.
During the year, speaking engagements took him to
the University of Alabama and Notre Dame. Topics included,
“Self-Disclosure, Religious Studies Pedagogy, and the Skeptical
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Mission of the Public University.” Professor Jaffee augmented
his range of courses with two new offerings: NE 496 “Rabbinic
Oral-Traditional Literature” and SIS 498 “Monotheism
and the Political Order.” With the help of a course development
grant from the International Studies Center, he designed
a new course, “Antisemitism as a Cultural System” during
the summer of 2003.
Professor Joel Migdal spent 2002–03 on sabbatical leave,
during which time he was a visiting professor at The School of
Oriental and African Studies in London and at Sciences-Pol
in Paris. He also served as the
Lady Davis Fellow at Hebrew
University in Jerusalem. While
he was away, he presented
seminars in Bergen, Oslo,
Stockholm, Uppsala, Istanbul,
Berlin, London, Paris, and all
the universities in Israel. In
March 2003, the paperback
edition of The Palestinian
People: A History, co-authored
with Baruch Kimmerling,
(Harvard University Press
2003) was published. Professor
Migdal has recently been
elected president of the (International)
Association for Israel
Studies for a two-year term.
Professor Scott Noegel offered many scholarly, university,
and community lectures this year. Among them: “Word Play
in the Hebrew Bible,” “Relics in the Ancient Near East,” “The
Power of ‘Magic’ in Ancient Egypt,” “Shibboleths, Politics,
and Literary Flare: Dialects and the Hebrew Bible,” and “The
Ark of the Covenant in the Light of Ancient Egypt.” He also has
been engaged in a number of publishing projects including
“Dreaming and the Ideology of Mantics: Homer and Ancient
Near Eastern Oneiromancy” (MELAMMU, 3; Helsinki: Neo-
Assyrian Text Corpus Project), “From an Ancient Egyptian Love
Lyric” (Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature), and “Mesopotamian
Epic” (The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Epic). His most
recent article, now in consideration by a classics journal, is
entitled “Apollonius’ Argonautika and Egyptian Solar Mythology.”
Noegel’s recent monograph “Nocturnal Ciphers: The
Allusive Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near East” will
appear later this year in the American Oriental Series (New
Haven, CT). Soon to be on the shelves: Prayer, Magic, and the
Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World, co-edited with
Joel Walker and Brannon Wheeler (Magic in History Series,
Penn State University Press). The Linguistic Cycle: Selected Writings
of Carleton T. Hodge (CDL Press), co-edited with Dr. Alan
Kaye, also will appear later this year. His most current project,
now in progress, is a book entitled Magic and the Bible
(Routledge Press). Professor Noegel completed his first term
as President of the American Research Center of Egypt, Northwest
Chapter, an appointment that complements his work on
the “Digital Egypt” project, for which he received a University
Curriculum Development Award. The “Digital Egypt” project,
now under construction, will enable him to create a technology-based,
co-taught course on the subject of Egypt from early
antiquity to the rise of Islam.
Professor Michael Rosenthal, Associate
Professor of Philosophy, has recently
joined the Jewish Studies Program faculty.
Widely published, samples of his
articles that will appear this year are:
“Persuasive Passions:␣ Rhetoric and the
Interpretation of Spinoza’s Theological-
Political Treatise,” forthcoming in Archiv
für Geschichte der Philosophie, volume
3, 2003; and “The ‘Black, Scabby Brazilian’:
Some Thoughts on Race and
Early Modern Philosophy,” forthcoming Professor Rosenthal
in Philosophy & Social Criticism (2003).
He was invited to give papers at the American Academy of
Religion Meeting in Toronto (November 2002) and at a conference
sponsored by the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill on “‘Light against Darkness’: An International Symposium
on Dualism in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and
the Contemporary World,” (June 2003). Fall 2003, Professor
Rosenthal will speak␣ at two symposiums organized by Jewish
Studies programs: Second Shoshana Shier Symposium on
Judaism and Modernity, University of Toronto, September
2003; and “Philosophers and the Bible” conference, sponsored
by the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for
Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, November 2003.
He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Persuasive
Passions: Spinoza and Religious Tolerance.␣ Much, though not
all, of his recent work is connected to that project.
Professor Marina Rustow, the Hazel D. Cole Fellow for 2002–
03, will be joining the faculty of History and Jewish Studies at
Emory University as assistant professor, beginning spring 2004.
Fall term 2003, she will be a fellow at the Center for Advanced
Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Naomi Sokoloff, the Samuel and Althea Stroum
Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, participated in conferences
at Cambridge University, “The World of Aharon Appelfeld,”
where she presented a paper on multilingualism in Appelfeld’s
writing and at William and Mary, where she presented a
paper on “The Holocaust and the Encyclopedic Imagination”.
The essays prepared for the latter will be published in a volume
edited by Marc Raphael. In October 2002 she spoke on
the topic, “Gail Hareven’s ‘Healing’: Translation as Theme and
Challenge” at a symposium in honor of Edna Amir Coffin at
Washington University. Professor Sokoloff’s recent writings
include an essay on Gila Almagor in Holocaust Literature,
edited by S. Lillian Kremer (Routledge, 2002), as well as an
essay on Aharon Appelfeld for a new volume of The Dictionary
of Literary Biography (The Holocaust Novel). Her co-edited
volume, Traditions and Transitions in Israel Studies: Books on
Israel 6 (SUNY Press), appeared in print in December 2002.
“The Jewish Presence in Children’s Literature,” a special issue
of The Lion and the Unicorn (Johns Hopkins UP) edited by
Suzanne Rahn and Naomi Sokoloff, is being published Autumn
2003. Also appearing in print this past year: an article on
Savyon Liebrecht in History and Literature (Brown Judaic Studies,
2002), and an article on Agnon in Reading Hebrew Literature
(University Press of New England, 2002). In addition, she
gave several public lectures on Israel as part of the Limmud
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NW program and served as Graduate Program Advisor in the
Near East Department.
Professor Robert Stacey finished his five-year term as Chair
of the History Department in July 2002. During the past year,
he has been on leave, returning to his study of ritual crucifixion
stories in medieval England, and preparing a revised
edition of his western civilization textbook.
Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein taught a new graduate
course entitled “Topics in Modern European Jewish History”
and, for the second time, taught an undergraduate lecture
course “The Jewish Twentieth Century in Film.” During this
academic year, she will co-teach three new courses, two with
Dr. Uta Poiger on the history of the Holocaust. Professor Stein
addressed the wider Seattle community several times in
recent months, including a talk given as part of the Seattle
Jewish Film Festival. Her most recent work appears in the journals
Pe’amim, Studies in the Cultural Heritage of Oriental Jewry
and Slavic Review, and in various edited volumes, among them
Boundaries and Belonging (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
and The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (Oxford University
Press, 2002). Professor Stein is currently co-editing, with Dr.
Resat Kasaba, a volume entitled Coexistence and Conflict in
Ottoman Society. Her book, Making Jews Modern: Yiddish and
Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires, is being published
this year by Indiana University Press. She is currently at
work on a new book project that explores European Jews’
role in the colonization of sub Saharan Africa.
Professor Brannon Wheeler, with Scott Noegel and Joel
Walker, edited the papers for publication, presented at the
UW conference on “Prayer, Magic and the Stars” (Penn State
Press). His book, Moses in the Quran and Islamic Exegesis
(Curzon Routledge) was published last summer; his edited
volume, Teaching Islam (Oxford), appeared in January 2003.
His work appears in the published volumes of the
Encyclopaedia of the Quran (E. J. Brill), the Oxford Dictionary
of Islam (Oxford), and an article is forthcoming in the second
edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillan). In addition
to several published articles, he contributed a paper to
a conference on Islamic Law and Sufism in Murcia, Spain.
Professor Wheeler concludes his second three-year term as
editor for Religious Studies Review, and has plans to launch a
new journal in Comparative Islamic Studies to be published
by Leicester University Press. He also continues work on the
editing of the Dictionary of Muslim Biographies (Continuum),
and his book-length manuscript on “Ritual, Relics, and Territory
in Islam.” During the summer and fall 2003, he will
be a Fellow at the Institute for Ismaili Studies in London, the
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and a visiting scholar at
the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University
of London. Professor Wheeler received a Senior Fellowship
at the American Centers for Oriental Research in Amman,
Jordan for 2004, and will also be conducting research on
the Arab Prophets of the Quran and Bible with a Fulbright
research Fellowship in Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia during
that same time. This coincides with his chairmanship of
a new section in the Society of Biblical Literature, “On the
Quran and Biblical Literature.”
Visiting Faculty
The Jewish Studies Program is very pleased to have two
visiting faculty for the 2003–2004 academic year. The program
welcomes Hazel D. Cole Fellow, Alisa Braun (see article
page 8), and Shlomo Chertok.
Shlomo Chertok received an M.A. in Jewish Studies at the
University of Chicago and is currently completing a Ph.D. in
Jewish Thought in Modern Jewish Intellectual History at Ben-
Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. In addition, he has broad
training in the History of Jewish Biblical Interpretation and the
Jewish Philosophical Tradition. Chertok will be teaching “The
Jews in Western Civilization,” Winter 2004, and Beginning
Modern Hebrew through UW Extension beginning Fall 2003.
Joel Migdal Becomes President of AIS
Professor Joel Migdal has made
the UW the center for two important
undertakings.
In May, he became the two-year
president of the Association for
Israel Studies (AIS). AIS, an international
organization of academics
and others researching and teaching
on Israel, has members in
North America, Europe, and Israel.
The website is http://www.gc.cuny.
edu/directories/faculty/S.htm. Professor Migdal
Migdal also has been appointed
the first editor of a new book series, Studies on Israel,
to be published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
He expects the first books in the series to appear in
late 2004 or 2005.
How to Find UW Courses in Jewish Studies
“Where do I find Jewish Studies courses?”
This is a commonly asked question. Not every
course related to Jewish Studies is listed under “Jewish
Studies” in the time schedule. Courses in Hebrew language,
Jewish History, Judaism (religion), and the Bible,
for instance, are offered through other departments
and programs.
The faculty members offering these courses have,
since the founding of the Jewish Studies Program,
volunteered many administrative hours to coordinate
the Jewish Studies curriculum. It is comprised primarily
of courses in Near East Languages and Civilization,
Comparative Religion, History, English and, occasionally,
programs such as International Studies.
Therefore, to find courses directly related to Jewish
Studies, it is imperative to check the UW Time Schedule
for the following rubrics: NE, HSTAM, HSTAA, RELIG,
HEBR, HIST, ENGL.
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THE 2003 SAMUEL & ALTHEA STROUM LECTURESHIP IN JEWISH STUDIES
“Jewish Renewal and
the American Spiritual
Marketplace”: a summary
This year, Chava Weissler, the Philip
and Muriel Berman Professor of Jewish
civilization in the department of Religion
Studies at Lehigh University, presented
the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures.
Her subject was “Jewish Renewal and
Chava Weissler the American Spiritual Marketplace.”
Weissler’s research on Jewish Renewal
emerged from her book about seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury
Yiddish devotional prayers, Voices of the Matriarchs:
Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women (Boston:
Beacon Press, 1998). These prayers were part of a mystical
revival in Judaism in which kabbalah became central for a large
mass of Jewish people, both men and women, for the first
Chava Weissler, Rochelle Roseman and Althea Stroum
share greetings during the reception after the lecture.
time in history. After completing this book, Weissler turned to
the popularization of kabbalah in contemporary American religion
and set out to understand its appeal for Jews today,
women in particular. For the purposes of fieldwork, Weissler
looked for a community that sought to make the esoteric teachings
of kabbalah broadly available to anyone interested. She
landed upon the Jewish Renewal movement, which draws upon
kabbalah as one of its sources and regards women and men as
equal partners in Jewish life. Her main focus was Aleph: The
Alliance for Jewish Renewal, a network of groups with roots in
neo-Hasidism, 1960s counterculture, the ecological and feminist
movements, and eastern philosophies.
Aleph describes itself as trans-denominational, seeking to
infuse the established four denominations (Reform,
Reconstructionist, Conservative, and Orthodox) with an experiential
relationship with the sacred. Rabbis associated with
Renewal have been ordained by each of these four movements.
But, Weissler argued in her first lecture, sociologically Renewal
looks like a denomination. To explain this, she invoked the
sociologist of religion Wade Clark Roof, who describes an American
“spiritual marketplace” in which the texts of nearly every
religious tradition are widely accessible in book shops in English
translations. ”We live in a commodity culture,” Weissler
explained, “and consumption is our main means of selfexpression.”
␣ And yet this is paradoxical since spirituality and
consumerism might also be seen as opposed. But Renewal fulfills
market demands for a certain type of Judaism, she argued,
and in that sense, the structure of the American marketplace
has converted a “trans-denominational” spiritual movement
into one that behaves institutionally like a denomination.
Weissler went on to outline seven characteristic features of
Renewal: the quest for an experiential relationship with God;
a commitment to gender equality; an approach to Jewish traditions
(particularly hasidic and mystical ones) as resources
rather than inflexible obligations; openness to the spiritual
resources of other religious traditions; reliance upon charismatic
leadership, in which the rabbi is a vehicle for closeness to God
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SAMUEL & ALTHEA STROUM ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES ~ APRIL 14, 19 & 21, 2004
Professor Susan Handelman will present “Find Yourself a Teacher:
The Mentor-Disciple Relation in Jewish Thought
and Contemporary Cultural Studies”
Susan A. Handelman, Professor of
English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, will
deliver the 2004 Samuel and Althea
Stroum Lectures. Her topic is “Find
Yourself a Teacher: The Mentor-Disciple
Relation in Jewish Thought and Con-
Susan Handelman temporary Cultural Studies.” The
lectures will take place in Kane Hall 220,
beginning at 7:30 PM each evening.
Professor Handelman is a teacher extraordinaire, named
a “Top Ten” teacher at College Park (Diamondback student
newspaper) and “Teacher of the Year” (University of Maryland
Panhellenic Association). She received the Distinguished
Scholar-Teacher Award 1989–1990 (University of Maryland).
Professor Handelman has been a professor of English at
the University of Maryland and a visiting professor at the
“WEISSLER” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6
(a feature it shares with Hasidism); use of the language of therapeutic
culture and acceptance of the centrality of the individual
in her spiritual and psychological path; and a commitment to
social justice and a left-liberal political stance.
In her second lecture, Weissler observed that the preponderant
majority of Renewal’s members (although only about
half of its leaders) are women. This reflects what historians
call the “feminization of American religion” since the nineteenth
century: as religion has become associated with the
private domain, women have come to predominate in American
religious life. Judaism’s public rituals, by contrast, have
historically been dominated by men. Because men have more
options for Jewish life than women, they may also feel they
have more to lose by affiliating with Renewal. Moreover,
Renewal is explicit about using feminist and gender-neutral
God-language. Since the imagery and language the Western
traditions use for God reflect and reinforce certain types of
social structures and hierarchies — God was called “King” in
biblical times because kings were the most honored and powerful
members of society; God was called Father because
fathers are the heads of the household — feminist theology
argues for non-hierarchical God-language and a democratic
social organization. Renewal Jews therefore also turn to
kabbalah and its feminine imagery for the Divine.
In her third lecture, Weissler described the way Renewal
transforms the kabbalistic notion of the Four Worlds from a
theory of the cosmos to a teaching about the nature of the
self. In the fourteenth century, kabbalists invoked the concept
in order to bridge the gap between a transcendent divine and
the world of multiplicity and pain. Later, Lurianic kabbalah identified
the four worlds with states of meditation at stages of the
liturgy, as the mystical adept strove to draw near to the
Godhead. In Hasidism, the doctrine became identified with
inner aspects of the psyche, in keeping with Hasidism’s tendency
to psychologize kabbalistic cosmology. Jewish Renewal
even further “psychologized” the four worlds by interpreting
them as aspects of human existence. Many renewal liturgies,
Institute for Jewish Studies, Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
At the graduate level she has taught at the Interdisciplinary
Program in Gender Studies: Core Course in Gender in Language
and Literature, Literary Theory, and Critical Thought
and The Teaching of Literature. She has taught courses on
The Old Testament and Literary Criticism, Reading the Bible:
Problems of Interpretation, American-Jewish Literature,
Women in Jewish Literature, and Literature and Ethics.
Her primary research interest is literary criticism and Jewish
studies, especially the relation of literature to the
philosophy of religion.
Professor Naomi Sokoloff Awarded
the Samuel and Althea Stroum
Chair in Jewish Studies
At the pinnacle of university recognition
of faculty excellence is the
position of endowed chair. These
positions publicly acknowledge
superior scholarship, and reward
the best faculty at the university.
In 1985, through the extraordinary
generosity of Samuel and Althea
Stroum, the only endowed chair
at the Jackson School was established.
It remains one of only three
endowed chairs in the entire Col- Naomi Sokoloff
lege of Arts and Sciences.
This year, the Stroum Chair has been awarded to
Naomi Sokoloff, Professor of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilization, Women’s Studies, Hebrew
Language and Literature, and The Holocaust. She will
hold the chair for three years, using the resources
provided by the chair to support her research and
her program at UW. In return, she will give public
talks and present a colloquium during winter quarter
2004. Other planning is in process.
for example, interpret the Sabbath morning liturgy as a “spiritual
journey.” Instead of focusing on the divine end of the
equation, Renewal emphasizes the self, answering the questions
who am I, what is my place in the cosmos, and how can
I encounter the Infinite?
Renewal’s transformation of the Jewish mystical tradition,
Weissler argued, should be understood both as part of a broad
set of changes in American religious life and as an extension of
the development of Jewish mystical thought. In that sense,
Renewal has attempted to create a “Jewish language” in which
to express and shape contemporary American spirituality.
~ Marina Rustow
HAZEL D. COLE FELLOW, 2002–2003
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NEW HAZEL D. COLE FELLOW ARRIVES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Alisa Braun
This year, the Jewish Studies Program
welcomes Alisa Braun as the Hazel D.
Cole Fellow for 2003–2004. She earned
her MA (1997) and is earning her Ph.D.
from the University of Michigan in
American and British Fiction (1870–
1920) with a specialized inquiry in
Jewish Cultural Studies.
Her graduate thesis, “Jews,
Writing, and the Dynamics
of Literary Affiliation
1890–1940,” challenges
notions of literary author-
ity by exploring how writers, traditionally seen
as involved in relations of patronage or
mentorship, worked in tandem to construct their
identities as authors and to legitimize their own
aesthetic and ideological projects. Ms. Braun
At the graduate level, the University of Washington has
become one of a handful of North American centers training
a new generation of scholars who specialize on Israel.
Several graduates have taken posts at other universities.
Niall Omurchu, Ph.D. (2000) wrote his dissertation on religious
and ethnic struggles in Northern Ireland and Palestine under
British rule. He now teaches at Western Washington University.
Specializing on Israel’s High Court of Justice, Patricia Woods,
Ph.D. (2001) took a post in the University of Florida’s (Gainseville)
departments of Jewish Studies and Political Science.
Two doctoral students are now in the final stages of their
graduate training. Maha el-Taji is completing research in the
Haifa area on politics in Arab villages and the relationship to
the High Court of Justice. Roni Amit is writing on the adoption
of international human rights law by Israeli (and several
other countries’) supreme courts.
A Turkish graduate student, Yuksel Sezgin, is about to start
his field research for his dissertation on the role of religious
courts in Israel, Egypt, and India. A graduate student at the
University of Oslo, writing on the Shas Party, has applied to
be a visiting graduate student here next year, to learn more
about Israel. Several other students, early in their graduate
careers, plan to concentrate on Israel studies, as well.
As these students’ topics make clear, the opportunity to
study Israel in comparative perspective is a prime draw of the
University of Washington.
The Hazel D. Cole Fellowship
was established in 1992 by
Althea Stroum and her late
husband, Samuel, to provide
financial assistance to
deserving doctoral or
postdoctoral fellows in Jewish
Studies, and to honor the
memory of Mrs. Stroum’s
sister, Hazel D. Cole.
focuses on the careers of Jewish writers as they emerged on
the American scene, questioning traditional models of the relation
between ethnicity and hierarchy in the writing profession.
She received a Dissertation Research Fellowship from the
Center for Jewish History, the Rose and Isidore Drench Fellowship
from the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research, and many
awards and prizes from such organizations as the Institute for
Courses on Israel
Research on Women and Gender, the Marshall
Weinberg Prize of Excellence in Judaic Studies,
the Mellon Dissertation Fellowship and the Lurie
Award for Excellence in Teaching. Ms. Braun
earned her undergraduate degree from Columbia
University and attended the Ureil Weinreich
Program in Yiddish Literature and Culture in 1998
and 2000 at Columbia.
Fall quarter 2003, she will teach SISJE 490
Yiddish Culture in America (English Translations),
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:30–3:20.
THE HAZEL D. COLE FELLOWSHIP IN JEWISH STUDIES SEEKS APPLICANTS
The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington is
welcoming applications for the Hazel D. Cole Fellowship in
Jewish Studies for the academic year 2004–2005.
The Fellowship may be used for either doctoral or post-doctoral
research in any field of Jewish Studies.␣ Candidates must agree
to be in residence at the University of Washington for the tenure
of the fellowship.␣ The Hazel D. Cole Fellow will receive a stipend
of approximately $30,000, pending funding for the academic
year. The successful candidate will take part in the ongoing Jewish
Studies Colloquium Series, and will offer one undergraduate
seminar or lecture course during the academic year.
Applicants from all American and foreign universities are welcome.
ISRAEL STUDIES: A CENTRAL FOCUS OF JEWISH STUDIES
Applications to consist of:
(1) A current curriculum vitae
(2) A description (not exceeding five pages)
of the proposed research proposal
(3) Three letters of recommendation
ALL APPLICATIONS (including letters of recommendation) MUST
BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 14, 2003.
MAIL application materials to:
(Applications by fax or e-mail will not be accepted.)
Hazel D. Cole Fellowship Search Committee
JSIS, University of Washington
Box 353650, Seattle, WA 98195-3650
RECENT INTRODUCTIONS TO THE CURRICULUM
NEW: Israeli Identities
(Winter, NE 326/CHID 498, Sokoloff)
Explores fiction, film, poetry, songs and essays
about diverse groups within contemporary
Israeli society.
NEW: Foreign Policy Towards Israel
(Winter, SIS 495, Wellman)
Modern Jewish Literature and Cultural Identity
Yiddish Culture in America
(Fall, SISJE 490, Braun)
American Jewish Community
(Winter, SISJE 377, Burstein)
Topics in Ethnicity and Cultural Identity:
Eastern European Jewish Literature
(Winter, RUSS 424/SISJE 490A, Henry)
Jewish Women in Contemporary America
(Spring, SISJE 438, Friedman)
For complete course descriptions:
http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/jewish/courses.html
or call (206) 543-4243
Scenic photograph by Mary Levin, © University Photography

VISITING COMMITTEE CREATES SCHOLARSHIPS
Two new scholarships
have been created by the
Jewish Studies Visiting
Committee to encourage
and recognize outstanding
students who have a
desire to include courses
in Jewish Studies as part
of their overall academic
plans.
Now funding the
scholarships on an annual
basis, the Visiting Committee
hopes to soon
endow them permanently.
By doing so, it
hopes to attract deserving
and talented students to
Jewish Studies for many
years to come.
The first two scholarships were
awarded for 2003–2004 to Karen
Rosenberg and Anna Polyakovsky at a
reception held in their honor this past
June. In attendance were members of
the Visiting Committee, Dr. Anand
Yang, Director of the Jackson School,
Jewish Studies faculty and staff.
Karen Rosenberg, a doctoral student
in Women’s Studies, is interested in pursuing
research and teaching in Jewish Karen Rosenberg Anna Polyakovsky
NEW COURSES FOR 2003–2004
Reception for Jewish Studies Visiting Committee Scholarship winners
Standing l-r: Al Maimon, Prof. Paul Burstein, Prof. Jere Bacharach, Anna Polyakovsky,
Karen Rosenberg, Dr. Anand Yang, Linda Gould, Prof. Joel Migdal, Prof. Naomi Sokoloff
Seated l-r: Lucy Pruzan, Gil Roth, Timmie Faghin, Miriam Roth
Rich, new course offerings in Jewish Studies have been
developed by professors Naomi Sokoloff, Martin Jaffee and
James Wellman. Included are Hebrew Language and Literature,
and Cultural Identity, as it pertains to the Jewish
Community.
Beginning Modern Hebrew Course
Demand for Modern Hebrew has been growing in recent
years, and the Near East Department has had to turn away
many students from its morning language classes. Now there
will be a new option to learn Israeli (Modern) Hebrew. Starting
Fall Quarter 2003, Modern Hebrew will now be offered in
an evening class through UW Extension. Beginning Modern
Hebrew (HEBR 404) will cover the same material as the daytime
offering (Elementary Modern Hebrew, HEBR 411), but
at a less accelerated pace. Students will earn 3 credits per
quarter rather than 5. The textbook, Ivrit min ha-hathalah
he-hadash, Level I, was developed for Ulpan classes at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem and has been adopted widely at
universities throughout the U.S. The instructor, Shlomo
Chertok, received an M.A. in Jewish Studies at the University
of Chicago and is currently completing a Ph.D. in Jewish
Thought at Ben-Gurion University. To register, call UW Extension
at 206-543-2320 in the greater Seattle area, or
1-800-543-2320. Going forward, Intensive Hebrew will also
be offered during the summer. In 2003, the summer course
was taught by Aliza Sandalon and teaching assistant, David
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Women’s Studies. Inspired
by Professor Kathie
Friedman’s course, “Jewish
Women in Contemporary
America”, she began to
think seriously about issues
of how Jewish
female identities are constructed
in contemporary
American society. The
scholarship will allow her
to continue her research
and coursework in a more
rigorous and meaningful
way.
Anna Polyakovsky is a
junior majoring in biochemistry,
with a minor
in Jewish Studies. Her first
academic interest in Jewish Studies
began with taking Professor Martin
Jaffee’s course, “Intro to Judaism”,
where she quickly learned having a bat
mitzvah did not automatically translate
into a foundation of knowledge about
Judaism. Fascinated with what she was
learning, she decided to make Jewish
Studies her minor. The scholarship will
allow her to continue her pursuit of
Jewish knowledge while she completes
her studies in biochemistry.
Walker. If you have questions about the curriculum, or about
what level of Hebrew language study is best for you, contact
Professor Naomi Sokoloff at 206-543-7145.
Hebrew Poems and Prayers
HEBR 456. It will be offered MWF 11:30–12:20.
Prerequisite: HEBR 423 or permission of instructor.
Professor Naomi Sokoloff will offer a new course on Hebrew
Poems and Prayers beginning fall quarter 2003. The course
examines modern Hebrew poems side by side with texts from
the traditional Jewish liturgy, and will analyze how contemporary
writers have drawn on classical sources to reflect on
matters of faith and the language of religion. The poems have
an unusual allusive richness, because of the history of the
Hebrew language — an ancient, sacred tongue that has been
renewed and revitalized in the past 55 years as a modern,
secular vernacular. Understanding contemporary Hebrew
poetry requires familiarity with the language of Jewish prayers.
This class presents to students some outstanding modern writers
while also fostering appreciation for the many historical
layers of the Hebrew language. In addition, the course provides
advanced work in Hebrew, offering students an opportunity
to improve grammar, diction, and composition skills.
For complete course descriptions go to:
http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/jewish/courses.html
or call (206) 543-4243

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Over the years, thousands of UW students have taken Jewish
Studies courses, and many of their lives have been affected
by their Jewish Studies experience.
Dorothy Becker, B.A./B.S. College of Arts and Sciences
(General Studies) major in Jewish Studies 1979, began her
studies at UW after high school in 1948, then took the next
29 years off to marry and raise a family. In 1977, her college
student daughter, Arlene, urged her
take the “Introduction to Judaism”
course with Deborah Lipschadt and she
was hooked. Two years later, she became
one of the first Jewish Studies majors
to graduate from UW. An active
volunteer for years in many Jewish
community organizations and a founding
member and past president of Congregation
Beth Shalom, she and
husband, Jerry, are now retired and live
half of each year in Seattle and Palm
Springs, CA.
Keith Pickus, M.A. Modern German
History 1988, Ph. D. Modern European
Jewish History 1993, joined the faculty
at Wichita State University in 1995 as
Assistant Professor of modern German
Jewish History; he was promoted to
Associate Professor in 2001. Professor
Pickus also served as graduate program
coordinator for the history deptartment
before moving to the Dean’s office in
2001, where he is currently Associate
Dean. His research focuses on the topic
of religious minorities in 19th century
Germany. His monograph, Constructing Modern Identities:
Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815–1914, was published
in 1999 by Wayne State University Press.
Julie Katz, B.A. Art History, B.S. Nursing 1988, M.Ed. and
B.Lit. (Hebrew) at University of Judaism Los Angeles 1992, a
Seattle native raised in a traditional Jewish home, found the
Jewish Studies Program helped her to mature in Jewish learning
and to gain a broader world perspective in a stimulating
academic environment. After living in Israel for two years and
attending graduate school, she returned to Seattle as director
of education at Congregation Beth Shalom until 1996. She
left to work for the School of Nursing at UW where she is now
the Assistant Dean. Katz continues to serve as a resource in
the Jewish community.
Peter Drury, B.A. Jewish Studies 1989, M.S.W in Child
and Family Therapy at University of Illinois, Master of Divinity
at Yale Divinity School. He was ordained into the Christian
ministry in 1993 and has served as pastor of the recently
merged All Pilgrims Christian Church in Seattle since 1997.
Pastor Drury’s special interests include helping people discern
their sense of call in the world; strategic planning; and biblical
study in which the Bible is looked at seriously, not literally.
He has long felt the Jewish Studies Program helped greatly to
create a foundation for his future educational and spiritual
growth.
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Galit S. Ezekiel, B.A. Business Administration 1990, was
born in Israel and spoke fluent Hebrew and English by the
time the family moved to the US when she was six. Over the
years, her Hebrew lapsed, but when she planned to spend her
junior year studying in Israel, she enrolled in Modern Hebrew
classes with Professor Naomi Sokoloff. Upon her return, she
became actively involved with Hillel and AIPAC, and always
felt she would connect, professionally, with the Jewish community.
After several years as a professional
fundraiser, she is, today, Director
of Development for Hillel at the UW.
Michael Weingrad, B.A. Yale, M.A.
English 1993 UW, Ph.D. English 1999
UW, is currently the Montague Burton
Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University
of Leeds, UK. Professor Weingrad
teaches courses in modern Jewish literature,
modern Jewish thought, Jewish history
and Jewish-American literature and
Culture. He is currently working on a
book on American Jewish poetry, which
will include studies of Hebrew poetry in
America and of American poets writing
in Israel. Weingrad has been a Fulbright
Fellow Hebrew University in Jerusalem
and a research fellow at the Leo Baeck
Institute in New York City.
Jacob Fenton, B.A. Business Administration
(Marketing and Entrepreneurship)
2001, with a Jewish Studies minor,
found the Jewish Studies Program became
the driving catalyst in making
such a large public university seem small
and intimate. This in turn led to other Jewish affiliations and
connections while at the university (Hillel student president
1998–2000, AIPAC, AEPi, Jewish Federation Alliance). Fenton, now
in the entertainment industry, keeps in touch with many of his
professors, especially Professors Kathie Friedman and Naomi
Sokoloff. They and others still serve as great resources for his
continuing Jewish education. He resides in Los Angeles, CA.
New Research Fund in Jewish Studies
Through the generosity of Seattle Jewish community
member Andy Krasnow, a research fund has been
set up for faculty and advanced graduate students
in the Jewish Studies Program. These funds will
subsidize costs related to the conduct of research,
the presentation and dissemination of research,
and the purchase of special equipment
for a particular Jewish Studies project.
The Jewish Studies Program greatly
appreciates Krasnow’s commitment
to building and sustaining world-class
scholarship in Judaism and Jewish lives
today and throughout history, here
at the University of Washington.
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JEWISH STUDIES 2003–2004
AUTUMN 2003
HEBR 404 Beginning Modern Hebrew (UW Extension) Chertok
MW 7:00–8:30 PM
HEBR 411 Elementary Modern Hebrew Sokoloff Daily 9:30–10:20 AM
HEBR 421 Intermediate Modern Hebrew Sokoloff Daily 10:30–11:20 AM
HEBR 456 Hebrew Poems and Prayers Sokoloff MWF 11:30–12:20 PM
HIST 388 History, Memory, Nostalgia Stein TTh 1:30–2:50 PM
SISJE 490A/ ENGL 452A
Yiddish Culture in America (English translations) Braun
TTh 1:30–3:20 PM
HSTEU 590 Topics in Modern European History: The Holocaust Stein/Poiger
W 1:30–3:20 PM
ECON 406/SISJE 490B
Economic History of Israel Kochin MW 1:30–3:20 PM
WINTER 2004
SISJE 250/HIST 250
Jews in Western Civilization Chertok TTh 11:30–1:20 PM
SISJE/HIST 269
The Holocaust History and Memory Stein/Poiger
TTh 1:30–2:20 PM, F section time tba
SISJE 377 American Jewish Community Burstein MWF 2:30–2:50 PM
ENGL 312A Jewish Literature: Biblical to Modern Butwin
TTh 9:30–11:20 AM
HA&S 262B Israeli Literature and Culture Sokoloff
TTh 10:30–12:20 PM
HEBR 405 Beginning Modern Hebrew (UW Extension) Chertok
MW 7–8:30 PM
HEBR 412 Elementary Modern Hebrew Daily 9:30–10:20 AM
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HEBR 422 Intermediate Modern Hebrew Daily 10:30–11:20 AM
HEBR 427 Biblical Hebrew Poetry Noegel TTh 10:30–12:20 PM
IS 490 Antisemitism as a Cultural System Jaffee
TTh 11:30–1:20 PM
NE 326/CHID 498
Israeli Identities Sokoloff MW 10:30–12:20 PM
RUSS 424/SISJE 490A
Topics in Ethnicity and Cultural Identity:
Eastern European Jewish Literature Henry TTh 2:30–4:20 PM
SIS 495 Task Force: U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Israel Wellman
TTh 12:30–2:50 PM
SPRING 2004
HEBR 406 Beginning Modern Hebrew (UW Extension) MW 7–8:30 PM
HEBR 413 Elementary Modern Hebrew Sokoloff /Oron
Daily 9:30–10:20 AM
HEBR 423 Intermediate Modern Hebrew Sokoloff /Oron
Daily 10:30–11:20 AM
HEBR 428 Biblical Inscriptions Noegel
NEAR E 240 Introduction to Hebrew Bible Noegel TTh 1:30–3:20 PM
SISJE 490/HEBR 453
Introduction to Talmud Gamoran TTh 11:30–12:50 PM
SISJE 438/WOMENS
Jewish Women in Contemporary America Friedman TBA
SISME 458 Israel Migdal TBA
SUMMER 2004
HEBR 407 Beginning Modern Hebrew (UW Extension) Evenings
HEBR 401 Intensive Modern Elementary Hebrew Daily 8:30–11:50 AM
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