JWST courses

68 courses · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Fall 2026

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JWST 56 — First-Year Seminar: Germans, Jews, and the History of Anti-Semitism.
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JWST 60 — First-Year Seminar: Israeli Culture and Society: Collective Memories and Fragmented Identities.
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JWST 70 — First-Year Seminar: Jewish Spain: History and Culture Across the Hispanic World.
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JWST 89 — First-Year Seminar: Special Topics.
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JWST 100I — Introduction to Jewish Studies.
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JWST 101 — Elementary Modern Hebrew I.
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JWST 102 — Elementary Modern Hebrew II.
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JWST 103 — Understanding the Bible: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
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JWST 106 — Judaism in the Time of Jesus.
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JWST 107 — Introduction to Modern Judaism.
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JWST 109 — History and Culture of Ancient Israel.
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JWST 110 — The Archaeology of Palestine in the New Testament Period.
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JWST 112 — A Global History of the Bible.
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JWST 143 — Judaism in Our Time.
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JWST 153 — From the Bible to Broadway: Jewish History to Modern Times.
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JWST 203 — Intermediate Modern Hebrew I.
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JWST 204 — Intermediate Modern Hebrew II.
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JWST 206 — Prophecy and Divination in Ancient Israel and Judah.
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JWST 211 — Classical Hebrew I: A Linguistic Introduction to the Hebrew Bible.
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JWST 212 — Classical Hebrew II: A Linguistic Introduction to the Hebrew Bible.
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JWST 224 — Modern Jewish Thought.
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JWST 225 — Popular and Pious: Early Modern Jewish Literature.
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JWST 230 — Judaism and Popular Culture.
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JWST 235 — Israeli Cinema: Gender, Nation, and Ethnicity.
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JWST 239 — German Culture and the Jewish Question.
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JWST 243 — Introduction to American Judaism.
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JWST 251 — The Jewish American Experience.
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JWST 253 — A Social History of Jewish Women in America.
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JWST 262 — History of the Holocaust: The Destruction of the European Jews.
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JWST 267 — How Does It Feel? Yiddish Literature and Emotions.
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JWST 268 — Cultural Trends in Post-Communist Central Europe: Search for Identity, Importance of Jewish Voices.
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JWST 269 — Springtime for Hitler: Jews on Stage from Shakespeare to Mel Brooks.
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JWST 274 — Representing the Holocaust: Mediating Trauma in Art and Theory.
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JWST 289 — Jewish American Literature and Culture.
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JWST 305 — Advanced Composition and Conversation: Immigration, Ethnicities, and Religious Traditions.
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JWST 306 — Advanced Composition and Conversation: Zionism and the Hebrew Language.
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JWST 308 — The Renaissance and the Jews.
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JWST 311 — Ghettos and Shtetls? Urban Life in East European Jewish History.
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JWST 330 — Jesus and the Jews: From the Bible to the Big Screen.
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JWST 343 — Religion in Modern Israel.
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JWST 358 — Religion and Tradition in Israeli Cinema, TV, and Literature.
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JWST 360 — The Jewish Writer in American Life.
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JWST 364 — Multiethnic Cultures of Contemporary Spain.
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JWST 390 — Special Topics in Jewish Studies.
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JWST 412 — From Communism to Capitalism: 20th- and 21st-Century Polish Literature and Culture.
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JWST 420 — Post-Holocaust Ethics and Theology.
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JWST 425 — Beyond Hostilities: Israeli-Palestinian Exchanges and Partnerships in Film, Literature, and Music.
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JWST 435 — The Origins of Culture: Translation and Self-Translation in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Beyond.
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JWST 436 — Language, Exile, and Homeland in Zionist Thought and Practice.
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JWST 444 — Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Judaism.
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JWST 462 — The Arab-Jews: Culture, Community, and Coexistence.
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JWST 464 — Imagined Jews: Jewish Themes in Polish and Russian Literature.
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JWST 465 — Literature of Atrocity: The Gulag and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
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JWST 469 — Coming to America: New York in Yiddish Literature and Culture.
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JWST 472 — Traditions in Transition: Jewish Folklore and Ethnography.
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JWST 476 — Religion and Ethnicity.
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JWST 480 — Russian-Soviet Jewish Culture: Lofty Dreams and Stark Realities.
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JWST 481 — Jewish Belonging/s: The Material Culture of Jewish Experience.
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JWST 485 — From Fiddler on the Roof to the Holocaust: East European and Soviet Jewish History.
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JWST 486 — The Jewish South: Race, Region, and Religion.
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JWST 503 — Exploring the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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JWST 512 — Ancient Synagogues.
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JWST 533 — Women, Gender, and Judaism.
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JWST 556 — Language Remains: Exploring the German-Jewish Dialogue.
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JWST 602 — What Is Scripture? Formations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Canon.
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JWST 603 — The Bible and the History of the Self.
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JWST 640 — Topics in Hispanic Jewish Studies.
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JWST 697 — Capstone Course: Themes and Methodologies in Jewish Studies.
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