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What do health and medicine mean in an age of pandemic? This course will explore the long and deep history of Jewish engagement with medicine and healing, examining how ideas about health, medical knowledge, and health care providers have shifted over time. Over the course of the semester, we will look at the ways that Jews across the Middle East, Europe, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Atlantic conceived of health, illness, and the body, asking how Jewishness and Judaism contributed to these developments.

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The life and history of the Jews in the medieval and modern worlds. Topics include Jewish-Christian relations; development of Jewish philosophy and mysticism; Jewish life in Eastern Europe; the Holocaust; State of Israel; Jews and Judaism in North America. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

A survey of the literature and culture of the Jewish people in the formative years of its history. Emphasis on the development of Judaism in the biblical, Graeco-Roman, and rabbinic periods. Final unit treats the Jewish life-cycle and the system of religious practices. (Gen. Ed. HS, DG)

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