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**my box is in the History Department, Cramer 4th floor.** **Thanks,** **MW**
 * Where to drop off your final paper:**

**Wednesday, March 9** ** Beginnings: The Bible’s Intriguing Firsts ** //Sponsored by The Schusterman Foundation and the Foundation for Jewish Culture// //Co-sponsored by Congregation Neveh Shalom, Café v'Ivrit,// //PSU Department of English and the PSU Middle East Studies Center//
 * FINAL EXTRA-CREDIT OPPORTUNITY (PLEASE NOTE OFF-CAMPUS LOCATION): **

Translated into over 20 languages, author of some of the best selling novels in all of Israeli publishing history as well as a dozen children's books, columnist for Yediot Aharonot, Israeli writer Meir Shalev comes to us this March to speak about his latest book, //Beginnings: Reflections on the Bible's Intriguing Firsts,// a collection of essays about the Bible. With a secular point of view Shalev follows the heroes and heroines of the Bible, examining the first love ever mentioned in the text, the first kiss, first laugh and the first hate, the first dream, the first king, the first prophet and the first spy.
 * Time: 7:30 pm**
 * Location: Congregation Neveh Shalom, 2900 Peaceful Ln. (bus 54, 56 to Beaverton-Hillsdale and Dosch)**
 * $10 (free for students and pre-K-12 teachers)**
 * For more information contact judaicst@pdx.edu.**



PSU Judaic Studies website

__January 3__ Introduction
 * WEEK ONE**

__January 5__ Gershom Scholem, “Toward an Understanding of the Messianic Idea in Judaism” [in Scholem] R. J. Zwi Werblowski, “Messianism in Jewish History”

selections from IV Ezra (read 5:23-30; 7:26-36; 13:1-52) selections from //The Book of Legends //

__January 10__ selections from the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin
 * WEEK TWO**

Sefer Zerubbabel

selections from Maimonides, Mishnah Torah

__January 12__


 * QUIZ ONE (includes all readings through January 12) **

The Reform Rabbinical Conference at Frankfurt, “The Question of Messianism” (1845)

Hillel Halkin, "How Not To Repair the World"

David Berger, “The Rebbe, the Jews, and the Messiah”

Abraham Socher, “The Chabad Paradox”

__January 17__ NO CLASS
 * WEEK THREE**

__January 19__ Gershom Scholem, "Redemption Through Sin" [in Scholem]

Sabbatianism, primary documents

Jakob Wassermann, "Prelude" to his novel //The Dark Pilgrimage// (originally published in German as //Die Juden von Zirndorf// in 1897)

__January 24__ Haim Hazaz, "The End of Days"
 * WEEK FOUR**

__January 26__
 * QUIZ TWO (includes all readings through January 26) **

biographical article on I. B. Singer

I. B. Singer, //Satan in Goray//

__January 31__ Avrom Noversztern, "History, Messianism, and Apocalypse in Bashevis's Work" Robert Whitehill-Bashan, "Last Judgment"
 * WEEK FIVE**

__February 2__ NO CLASS: ** WORK ON YOUR PAPERS! **

__February 7__: NO CLASS (INSTRUCTOR SICK)
 * WEEK SIX**

__February 9__
 * PAPER ONE DUE [[file:Essay 1.doc]] **

from Matthew Hoffman, //From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture// (Stanford, 2007), pp. 1-12 (“Introduction”), 123-132 (“Opening Doors”) Sholem Asch, "The Carnival Legend"

Marc Chagall, "White Crucifixion" [on sidebar]

biographical article on Chagall

biographical article on Sholem Asch

__February 14__ Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, "A Nacht" (translated from the Yiddish by Kathryn Hellerstein) commentary by Kathryn Hellerstein
 * WEEK SEVEN**

Billie Holliday sings "Strange Fruit"

__February 16__ Halpern in-class test moved to Feb 21

__February 21__ Ruth Wisse, //Jews and Power// IN-CLASS TEST: WILL INCLUDE ASCH, HALPERN, AND WISSE
 * WEEK EIGHT**

__February 23__ the account of David Reubeni Miriam Eliav-Feldon, "Invented Identities: Credulity in the Age of Prophecy and Exploration"

__February 28__ article on Prague
 * WEEK NINE**

biographical article on Max Brod

Max Brod, //Reubeni, Prince of the Jews// (part I)

__March 2__ Max Brod, //Reubeni, Prince of the Jews// (part I)

__March 7__ NO CLASS: ** WORK ON YOUR PAPERS! ** Max Brod, //Reubeni, Prince of the Jews// (rest of novel)
 * WEEK TEN**

__March 9__
 * LAST CLASS [[file:final paper 2011.doc]] **


 * FINAL PAPERS ARE DUE BY NOON ON MARCH 17. NO, REPEAT //NO// EXCEPTIONS. **