Syllabi for Israel Studies Courses

Syllabi for Israel Studies Courses

LISTED ALPHABETICALLY BY SUBJECT:

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

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A

The Arab-Israeli Confict - Professor Zeev Maoz
The Arab-Israeli Conflict - Professor S.B. Lasensky
The Arab-Israeli Conflict - Professor Guy Ben-Porat
The Arab-Israeli Conflict - Kenneth W. Stein
The Arab-Israeli Conflict - Professor Uri Bar-Joseph
The Arab-Israeli Conflict - Professor Moshe Naor
The Arab-Israeli Conflict - Professor Daphne Tsimhoni
The Arab-Israeli Conflict - Professor Zach Levey
The Arab-Israeli Conflict - Professor Daphne Tsimhoni
The Arab-Israeli Conflict - Professor Muli Peleg
The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Peace Process - Professor Avi Ben-Zvi
Arab-Israeli Relations - Professor Ian S. Lustick
Arab-Israeli Relations: Past and Present - Professor Chanan Naveh
Arab-Israeli Relations: Past and Present - Professor Oren Meyers
Arab-(Jewish) Israel Conflict: 1939 to Present - Dr. David Tal

B

Becoming Israel: War, Peace and the Politics of Israel's Identity - Professor Emanuel Adler
Being Israeli and the Israeli Being - Professor Dana Blander
"But the Bible Says...": Teaching Israel Studies in the Christian South - Dr. Sara Abosch

C

Cinematic Representations of Jews and Israelis - Dr. Sariel Birnbaum
Colonization and Nationalism: Jewish settlement in Palestine-Israel, 1882-1948 - Professor Hagit Lavsky
Community and Identity in Modern Israel - Professor Muli Peleg
Contemporary Israeli Intellectuals on Ethnicity, Society and Religion - Dr. Yossi Turner
Creating the Zionist Narrative: Culture in the Service of Ideas - Dr. David Mendelsson
Creation of a New National Culture in Jewish Palestine - Professor Anat Helma
Cultural History of Modern Hebrew Poetry - Professor Hannan Hever
Culture of Modern Israel - Professor Matthew Silver
Cultures and History of the Middle East - Professor Naomi Gale

D

Debating Israel's History - Dr. Rhona Seidelman
Democracy and Human Rights in Israel - Professor Nahshon Perez
Democracy, Civil Liberties and National Security - Professor Menachem Hofnung
Democracy in Theory and Israel in Practice - Professor Dana Blander
Diplomacy and Conflict in the Middle East - Professor Alexander Bligh

E

Ethnic and Religious Identities in Israel - Professor H. Goldberg
Ethnic Conflicts in Comparative Perspective - Dr. Alexander Bligh
Ethnicity in the Jewish people and in the State of Israel - Dr. Avi Picard

F

Film, Fiction and the Israeli-Arab Conflict - Professor Lewis Glinert

G

Gender and Family in Israel - Professor Larissa Remennick
Gender in the Middle East - Professor Naomi Gale
Gender and Nation in New Israeli and Palestinian Cinema - Professor Rami Kimchi
Government and Politics of Israel - Professor Donna Robinson Divine
Government and Politics in Israel - Dr. Maoz Rosenthal

H

History of Israel - Dr. Naomi Gale
History of Israel - Professor Yoram Peri
History of Israel - Dr. Rhona Seidelman
History of Israel: Politics, Society and Foreign Relations - Dr. Joseph Nevo
History of Modern Israel - Professor Guy Ben-Porat
History of Modern Israel - Dr. Kenneth W. Stein
History of Modern Israel - Jonathan Goldstein
History of Modern Israel - Professor Ofer Ashkenazi
History, Politics and Diplomacy of the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Dr. Kenneth W. Stein
History of the State of Israel from 1948 to the Present - Professor Hagit Lavsky
History of the Yishuv and Israel, 1917-1948 - Professor Hagit Lavsky
History of Zionism - Dr. Yaacov Yadgar
History of Zionism - Dr. Shlomo Aronson
History of Zionism and The Birth of Israel: Gateway Course - Professor Shlomo Aronson
- Initial Ideas Regarding Contents of the Gateway Course - Professor Shlomo Aronson
History of Zionism and the State of Israel - Dr. Avi Picard
The Holocaust and Israel - Dr. Roni Stauber
The Holocaust and Israeli Consciousness: A Cinematic Perspective - Professor Miri Talmon-Bohm
The Holocaust and its Impact on the Israeli Society and Politics - Professor Shlomo Aronson
The Holocaust in post-1945 European Culture - Professor Ofer Ashkenazi
The Holocaust and Western Civilization - Professor Oren Meyers

I

Identity, History and Culture in Israeli Cinema - Dr. Miri Talman-Bohm
Immigration, Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in Israel - Prof. Larissa Remennick
Immigration in Israeli Society - Dr. Rakefet Zalashik
Intractable Dispute: History of the Israel-Arab Conflict - Professor Matthew Silver
Introduction to Israel Studies - Dr. Assaf Shelleg
Introduction to Israel Studies: Israel and the World- Dr. Daniel Marom *(includes notes for teaching course)*
Introduction to Jewish Cultures - Professor Naomi Gale
Introduction to Jewish/Israeli Law - Professor Naomi Gale
Introduction to Middle Eastern History - Professor Daphne Tsimhoni
Islam and Nationalism in Saudi Arabia - Professor Joseph Nevo
Israel and the 1967 June War - Professor Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg
Israel: History and Politics - Dr. P. R. Kumaraswamy
Israel, Its Neighbors and the Great Powers: War and Peace in the Middle East in a Comparative Perspective - Professor Benny Miller
Israel-Jordan Relations: The Friendly Foes - Professor Joseph Nevo
Israel: Politics and Society - Professor Joel S. Migdal
Israel: Politics and Society - Dr. Reuven Y. Hazan
Israel: Politics and Society - Professor Scott B. Lasensky
Israel Wars - Dr. Yoav Gelber
Israeli and Palestinian Film - Professor Sarina Chen
Israeli Cinema in the 21st Century - Professor Igal Bursztyn
Israeli Cinema: Moving Images of a Society in Flux - Professor Motti Inbari
Israeli Culture: A Survey - Professor Lewis Glinert
Israeli Culture: From the Birth of Zionism to the 21st Century - Dr. Julia R. Lieberman
Israeli Democracy: History, Politics, Institutions and Society - Professor Uri Bar-Joseph
Israeli Democracy: Politics, Institutions and Society - Professor Menachem Hofnung
Israeli Democracy: Politics, Institutions and Society - Dr. Daniel Marom *(includes notes for teaching course)*
The Israeli Experience: Exploring the Identity of Israelis through Narrative research - Dr. Nurit Novis Deutsch
Israeli Filmmakers: Cinema and Society - Professor Rivka Ribak
Israeli Filmmakers: Israel in Documentary Film - Professor Rivka Ribak
Israeli Fiction in Translation - Professor Miri Talmon-Bohm
Israeli Foreign Policy - Dr. P. R. Kumaraswamy
Israeli Historiography - Dr. Yoav Gelber
Israeli History Through Film - Professor Miri Talmon-Bohm
Israeli Identities - Professor Naomi Sokoloff
Israeli Law and Legal System - Dr. Naomi Gale
Israeli Law in Comparative Perspective - Professor Menachem Hofnung
Israeli Legal History - Professor Assaf Likhovski
Israeli Literature and Culture in Conflict - Professor Ken Frieden
Israeli Media - Yaacov Yadgar
Israeli Media Studies: Cultural Approaches - Professor Rivka Ribak
Israeli National Security Strategy, Policy and Decision Making - Professor Chuck Freilich
Israeli Political System: A Guide to the Perplexed - Professor Dana Blander
Israeli Politics - Professor David Nachmias
Israeli Politics - Professor Naomi Gale
Israeli Politics - Professor Kenneth Wald
Israeli Politics - Professor Muli Peleg
Israeli Politics and Society - Professor Dov Waxman
Israeli Politics at a Crossroads - Professor Gabriel Sheffer
Israeli Politics in Comparative Perspective - Professor Menachem Hofnung
Israeli Politics in the Middle East - Gregory Mahler
Israeli Politics: Israeli Democracy at 60 - Achievements and Challenges - Professor Yoram Peri
Israeli Society - Professor Aziza Khazzoom
Israeli Society - Professor Yoram Peri
Israeli Society - Professor Chaim I.Waxman
Israel's Changing Collective Identity - Professor Fred Lazin
Israel's Self-Image Through Film - Professor Igal Bursztyn
Issues in Israel Politics: A Comparative Perspective - Dr. Gideon Rahat

J

Jerusalem: Vision and Reality - Professor Lewis Glinert
Jewish-Arab Relations in the State of Israel - Professor Daphne Tsimhoni
Jewish Culture in North Africa & Israel - Professor Harvey Goldberg
Jewish Identity in Western Art Music - Dr. Assaf Shelleg
Jewish Intellectuals and the Crisis of Modernity - Professor Arie Dubnov
Jewish Religion and Culture - Dr. Sarina Chen
The Jewish-Palestinian Vertigo: The Impact of the Conflict on the Israeli and Palestinian Societies - Professor Baruch Kimmerling
Jews, Muslims and Christians in Israel - Professor Daphne Tsimhoni
Jews and Art - Professor Alec Mishory

L

Landmarks in Israeli Art - Professor Alec Mishory
Leadership in the Jewish and Israeli Context - Professor Muli Peleg
Life Cycle Celebrations in Judaism - Professor Harvey Goldberg
Linking National/Local Elections - Dr. Maoz Rosenthal

M

Major Controversies about the Character of the Israeli State and Society - Professor Baruch Kimmerling
Major Debates in Israeli Historiography - Professor Assaf Likhovski
Mediation in International Conflict - Professor Avi Ben-Zvi
Messianism & Israel - Dr. Motti Inbari
Middle Eastern Societies in Cinematic Transitions: Israel and Egypt - Dr. Sariel Birnbaum
Modern Israel - Professor Gayil Talshir
Modern Israel - Professor Shlomo Aronson
Modern Israel - Dr. Sarina Chen
Modern Israel (Second Syllabus) - Dr. Sarina Chen
Modern Israel (Second Syllabus) - Professor Shlomo Aronson
Modern Jewish Thought - Dr. Yossi Turner
Multi-ethnicity and ‘Jewishness’ in Contemporary Israeli Society - Professor Maina Singh

N

Negotiating Middle East Peace - Dr. Arie M. Kacowicz

O

Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict in Palestine - Dr. Yoav Gelber
Origins of the State of Israel - Professor Moshe Naor

P

The Palestine Mandate: 1920-1948 - Dr. Kenneth W. Stein
The Palestinian-Jewish/Israel Conflict: 1900s-Present - David Tal
The Palestinians Between the Arab States and Israel - Dr. Joseph Nevo
Peace and Conflict in the Middle East - Mira Sucharov
Politics and Conflict - Professor Chanan Naveh
Politics and Society in Israel - Dr. Azi Lev-On
Politics and Society in Israel - Professor Zvi Gitelman
Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History, Politics & Government - Professor Sam Lehman-Wilzig
Public Administration and Policy in Israel - Dr. Maoz Rosenthal

R

Radical Islam in Comparative Perspective - Professor Alexander Bligh
Reading Documents in Israeli Society - Dr. Avi Picard
The Rebirth of Spoken Hebrew - Professor Lewis Glinert
The Reel Israel: Studying Israel Through Film - Professor Miri Talmon-Bohm and Nava Dushi
Religion, Culture and Identities in Israel - Professor Harvey Goldberg
Religion and Politics in the Middle East - Professor Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg
The Religious Roots of Modern Zionism - Dr. Meir Seidler

S

Selected Issues: Israel's National Security, 1948 to the Present - Dr. David Tal
Selected Issues: History of Zionism and the State of Israel - Dr. David Mendelsson
The Shaping of Israeli Society - Dr. Yoav Gelber
The Socio-economic Aspects of Welfare State Policy in Israel - Roby Nathanson
Sociology of the Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation - Gordon Fellman
The State of Israel: The First Decade, 1948-1958 - Professor Anat Helman

T

Theories of International Relations and Realities in the Middle East - Dr. Arie M. Kacowicz
Topics in International Cinema: Israeli Film - Professor Sarina Chen

U

The United States and the Middle East - Professor Avi Ben-Zvi
US-Israeli Comparative Law - Professor Naomi Gale
US-Israel Relations - Dr. Guy Ziv

W

Women and Social Change in the Middle East - Professor Daphne Tsimhoni
Women in Israeli Society - Prof. Rakefet Zalashik

Z

Zionism and Contemporary Society - Dr. Yossi Turner
Zionism, Anti-Zionism and Post-Zionism: Israel - Past, Present, Future - Professor Sam Lehman-Wilzig
Zionism and Peace in Israeli Cinema - Professor Rami Kimchi
Zionism in Thought, Culture, and Literature: From Inception to the State - Professor Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Zionism, Israel and the Modern World - Dr. David Mendelsson

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