Finkelperel Institute for Israeli and Jewish Studies

Jewish Diaspora Pedagogy, Historical, Humanities and other courses:

• (NEW) Israel and the Ancient World (In-Person, Online options)
• (NEW) Second Temple Period Jewish History (In-Person or Online)
• Jewish Experience in Asia (In-Person, Online options)*
• Global Jewish History II (French Revolution to the Present) (In-Person or Online options)
• Jewish History and Thought I (In-Person, Online options)
• Jewish Philosophy and Thought I (Jews in Dark and Middle Ages Europe and Arab World (In-Person, Online options)**
• Jews in Modern Europe (In-Person, Online)*

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Traditional Jewish man in prayer with siddur

Journey into the deep and strange experiences of the larger Global Jewish Diaspora. This includes the the Second Temple Period, Middle Ages, Early Modern Period, the Modern Period, The Shoah (The Holocaust) and Postmodern AI Period. You will visit stories of Jewish life and individuals from communities in Western Europe, North America, Central Europe, South America, South Africa, Imperial Russia and elsewhere. Also learn about Jewish Halutzim (Pioneers), Socialists, Zionists and more…

• The People | The People of Israel, the Jewish People are alive as a distinct people after millennia of journeying around the world. Thus centuries old, time proven strategies, prosperity models used by Jewish communities around the world exist. These courses mentor you into wider thinking and to provide you with fresh ideas to develop your own life interests and goals.

• Benefits | Meet like-minded people, grow your people-networks while learning together in your courses.
• You become ‘a man for all seasons’. We train you to widen your own world.

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*prerequisite that student has already taken Modern Global Jewish History I (In-Person or Online)

**prerequisite that student has already taken Jewish History and Thought I (In-Person or Online)