Courses

Each semester, the Yale Program in Jewish Studies offers exciting undergraduate courses in Jewish history, literature, culture, religion, and philosophy.

Passover Seder Scene

Illumination from a Passover Haggadah (Ms. Hebrew +35, 1725 or 1726), part of the Alexander Kohut Memorial Collection at the Beinecke.

Some recent titles include “Jews and the World: From the Bible through Early Modern Times,” “Reading Between the Panels: Visual Narratives and the Culture of Hebrew Graphic Novels,” “Jerusalem: Judaism, Christianity, Islam,” “Jews, Conversos, and Monarchs,” “The Jews in Nazi Europe,” “Translating Judaism,” “The Classics of Modern Hebrew Literature,” “Modern Jewish Politics,” “American Jewish Citizenship Politics, from Revolution to Civil Rights,” “The Mitnagdic Tradition,” “Israeli Popular Music,” “Yiddish Humor: A Genealogy,” “Introduction to Jewish Literatures,” “Making European Culture Jewish,” “Medieval Jews, Christian, and Muslims in Conversations,” “Modernism and Avant-Garde in Hebrew Poetry,” “Work, Rest and Leisure: A History of the Jewish Sabbath,” “The New York Intellectuals: Politics, Art, Argument,” “Contemporary Israeli Society in Film,” “Jewish Literary Masterpieces,” “The Politics of Jewish Literary Masterpieces,” “Modern Jewish Poets,” “Representing the Holocaust in Literature and Film,” and “Jewish Philosophy.”

Check out our Fall 2025 courses

  • "Jews and the World: From the Bible through Early Modern Times"

     

    Instructor: Ivan Marcus

    Course Code: JDST 2000

  • “The Global Right: From the French Revolution to the American Insurrection”

     

    Instructor: Eliyahu Stern 

    Course Code: JDST 3451

  • “Reading Between the Panels: Visual Narratives and the Culture of Hebrew Graphic Novels”

     

    Instructor: Shiri Goren

    Course Code: JDST 4205

  • Medieval Philosophy

     

    Instructors: Paul Franks, Michael Lessman

    Course Code: PHIL 2220

  • "The Frankfurt School"

     

    Instructor: Jacob McNulty

    Course Code: GMAN 3030

  • "Introduction to Jewish Literatures"

     

    Instructor: Hannan Hever

    Course Code: JDST 3856

  • "Kafka"

     

    Instructor: Paul North

    Course Code: GMAN 3333

  • "Making European Culture Jewish: Five Media, 1780–1930"

     

    Instructor: David Sorkin

    Course Code: JDST 3446

  • "Medieval Jews, Christians, and Muslims In Conversation"

     

    Instructor: Ivan Marcus

    Course Code: JDST 3270

  • "Elementary Yiddish I"

     

    Instructor: Joshua Price

    Course Code: YDSH 1100

  • "Elementary Modern Hebrew I"

     

    Instructor: Dina Roginsky

    Course Code: HEBR 1100

  • "Elementary Biblical Hebrew I"

     

    Instructor: Dina Roginsky

    Course Code: HEBR 1170

  • "Conversational Hebrew: Israeli Media"

     

    Instructor: Shiri Goren

    Course Code: HEBR 1510

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