Finkelperel Institute for Israeli and Jewish Studies

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Bachelors and Masters Courses

• Bachelors in Jewish Cultural and Linguistic Studies

• Masters in Jewish Cultural and Linguistic Studies

Modern Jewish History: French Revolution to Present

Silicon Wadi: Understanding Israel’s Tech Society

Second Temple Judaism

Ancient Israel in the Era of the Kings

Israel and MENA (Middle East- North Africa) Modern Geopolitical Studies*

Jews in Medieval Western Europe*

Inside Israel: Parties, Factions and Fabric

Jewry in England/Britain

Jewish Experience in Asia

Jews of Imperial Russia

Understanding the Shoah (Holocaust)

Promised Land and Babylon: The Jews of America

German Jewish High Culture

Jewish Philosophy

Special Courses

Special Directed Studies (ask Director of Studies)

Rabbinical Perspectives (Masters and Doctoral Students)

Languages

Hebrew (Modern)

Chart: Hebrew Handwriting Styles (above)

Hebrew (Biblical)

Photo: Ibbronot (calculating the Hebrew calendar 1593-1604)

Yiddish

_{Yiddish, Bashevis Singer, Early 20th Century typewriter document}

Yiddish Dialects of Europe Map

_{Jewish population density in Europe by percentage of general population (c1900)}

Medieval Jewish Studies

_{Jewish money-lenders from a 13th-century manuscript. William I brought Jewish merchants to England in the 11th century as they were able to lend money to the Crown}

_{An illustration in the 14th century Codex Manasse of the Jewish poet Süßkind von Trimberg wearing a Jewish hat similar to the type Venetian Jews were required to wear. Photo Credit: Codex Manesse, Bibliotheca Palatina of Heidelberg}

_{Latin deed with Hebrew quitclaim (attached to seal), by Jacob ben Aaron releasing a piece of land to William le Briel. England, 1239}