Fall 2009 Online Course Descriptions

SPRING 2013 ONLINE REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS

JEWISH STUDIES

Hebrew-Mechina

Hebrew 10300H-OL

Rivka Markovitz, M.Ed.

No books required for purchase—just internet access for Mechina. However,since we are aware that many Mechina students will be enrolling in Hebrew I later in the semester, please refer to the materials listed for that class below.

1. You are required to purchase a headset for the web conferences.A good, relatively inexpensive option is the Everyman headset available from Amazon.com for $27.99:

Participatingin the web conferenceswithout a headset will disturb instructor and students.

Please make sure to turn off your speakers duringthe web conferences.

1. Add Hebrew language function to your computer:

Go to the control panel.

Go to Regional and Language Options: Scroll down to Hebrew and click OK. Good Luck! Now you can type in Hebrew and English.

1. Please download the audio recording software from
2. A webcam will also be useful for the weekly web conferences, but not absolutely required.

Hebrew I: Beginners

Hebrew 10301H-OL Rivka Markovitz, M. Ed.

Here is a list of required books and software for Hebrew online:
1. Hebrew Word Processing – for a PC: DavkaWriter Platinum 7 (When using the DavkaWriter, make sure your computer is set to English).

For MAC, there is a version of DavkaWriter through ($129)

OR

Mellel II ($69.95)

All assignments need to be typed and sent to the instructor in pdf format.

2.. Hebrew letters stickers for the keyboard

3. Textbook – Ben-Ami, Tsipi,Ulpan Ivrit.. Prolog (2011)

ASIN:B0064B5Y6E

Available through

There is also an iphone app for this book:

5.You are required to purchase a headset for the web conferences.Participatingin the web conferenceswithout a headset will disturb instructor and students.

Please make sure to turn off your speakers duringthe web conferences.

4. Add Hebrew language function to your computer:

Go to the control panel.

Go to Regional and Language Options: Scroll down to Hebrew and click OK. Good Luck! Now you can type in Hebrew and English.

5. Please download the audio recording software from

6 A webcam will also be useful for the weekly web conferences, but not absolutely required.

8. If you are just learning to read the alphabet or need a refresher please consider enrolling in the Mechinah class in early January, as this class assumes a knowledge of decoding skills.

Hebrew II: Advanced Beginners

Hebrew 10302H-OL

Rivka Markovitz, M. Ed.

1. Hebrew Word Processing – for a PC: DavkaWriter Platinum 7 (When using the DavkaWriter, make sure your computer is set to English).

For MAC, there is a version of DavkaWriter through ($129)

OR

Mellel II ($69.95)

All assignments need to be typed and sent to the instructor in pdf format.

2.. Hebrew letters stickers for the keyboard

3. Textbook – Ben-Ami, Tsipi,Ulpan Ivrit.. Prolog (2011)

ASIN:B0064B5Y6E

Available through

There is also an iphone app for this book:

4.You are required to purchase a headset for the web conferences.A good, relatively inexpensive option is the Everyman headset available from Amazon.com for $27.99:

Participatingin the web conferenceswithout a headset will disturb instructor and students.

Please make sure to turn off your speakers duringthe web conferences.

1. Add Hebrew language function to your computer:

Go to the control panel.

Go to Regional and Language Options: Scroll down to Hebrew and click OK. Good Luck! Now you can type in Hebrew and English.

1. Please download the audio recording software from

Learning and Understanding Hebrew of the Siddur
Hebrew 30339-OL

Danielle Sharon, D.A.
All you need is: Hineni: Prayerbook Hebrew for Adults.
Authors: Rabbie Nina Beth Cardin, Terry Kaye, Lori Lyon.

BehrmanHouse publishers
ISBN:978-0-87441-789-0

All other readings will be available online.

Hebrew III: Conversational Hebrew-Part B

Hebrew 20302A-OL

Rivka Markovitz, M.Ed.

1.Hebrew Word Processing – For a PC: DavkaWriter Platinum 7(When using the DavkaWriter, make sure your computer is set to English).

All assignments must be typed and emailed to instructor in a PDF file.

2. Or Mellel II for MAC

All assignments must be typed and emailed to instructor in a PDF file.

3. Hebrew letters stickers for the keyboard

4. A year subscription to the Hebrew newspaper Breshit Online:

5. Textbook: Sichot shel Yom Yom :

6.You are required to purchase a headset for the web conferences.A good, relatively inexpensive option is the Everyman headset available from Amazon.com for $27.99: make sure to turn off your speakers duringthe web conferences.

Intermarriage in America

Sociology 30927-OL

Keren R. McGinity, Ph. D.

Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar, eds. Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997). ISBN 0-8135-2295-1

David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel, editors. Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism. University of California Press, 1998. (Several chapters.) ISBN 0-520-21122-7

Carolyn Chen and Russell Jeung, eds., Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generations (New York: NYU Press, 2012). ISBN 978-0-8147-1736-3

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Lawrence Fuchs. The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity and the Civic Culture. University Press of New England, 1990. ISBN 978-0-8195-6250-0

Wendy F. Katkin, Ned Landsman, and Andrea Tyree, editors. Beyond Pluralism: The Conception of Groups and Group Identities in America. University of Illinois Press, 1998. (Several chapters.) ISBN 0-252-06685-5

Keren McGinity. Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America. NYU Press, 2012 [2009]. ISBN-10: 0-8147-5730--8

Renee Romano. Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America. Harvard University Press, 2003. (Several chapters) ISBN 0-674-01033-7

Rebecca Walker, Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (New York: Riverhead Books, 2001). ISBN 1-57322-169-4

Jewish Women in Modern Times

History 40501-OL

Eliyana R. Adler, Ph.D.

Paula Hyman, Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representations of Women (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995). ISBN: 0295974265

Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore, eds., Gender and Jewish History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011). ISBN: 9780253222633

Puah Rakovsky My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003). ISBN: 0253215641

Lloyd P. Gartner, History of the Jews in Modern Times (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). ISBN: 9780192892591.

Liturgy of the Weekday Service

Saul Wachs, Ph.D.

Rabbinics 30626-OL

Hoffman, Lawrence.My People’s Prayerbook. Vols. 1-6 and 9.

Vol. 1 ISBN 1-879045-79-6

Vol 2 ISBN 1-879045-80-X

Vol 3 ISBN 1-879045-81-8

Vol 4 ISBN 1-879045-82-6

Vol 5 ISBN 1-879045-83-4

Vol 6 ISBN 1-879045-84-2

Vol 9 ISBN 1-58023-262-0

Copy of the Tenakh in Hebrew and English

Authorized Daily Prayerbook of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, ed. Jonathan Sacks. Collins(div. of Harper-Collins). London: 2006. ( paperback pocket edition is fine)

Books

Tenakh-Hebrew and English

The Complete ARTSCROLL Siddur

My People’s Prayer Book vols. 1,2,3,5,6 and 9

FOR THOSE WHO LACK A BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE STRUCTURE OF

THE SIDDUR, THE FOLLOWING IS RECOMMENDED:

Steven M Brown, Higher and Higher

For those who wish to engage the material in greater depth,

the following are recommended:

B.S.Jacobson "The Weekday Siddur,"(The original Hebrew version is entitled, Netiv Binah, vol.I)

Norman Lamm, The Shema: Spirituality and Law in Judaism

Jews and the Visual Arts: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry

Katherine Aron-Beller Ph.D.

History 30548-OL

Kalman P. Bland The Artless Jew Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001). ISBN-13: 978-0691010434

Anna Foa, The Jews of Europe after the Black Death. Translated by Andrea Grover (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). ISBN-13: 978-0520087651

Vivian B. Mann, Jewish Texts on the Visual Arts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2000) ISBN-13:978-0521652179. $50 on alibris.com:

Or, $49.49 on alibris.com:

All required texts can be purchased on

Contemporary Jewish Theology: God, Man and Community

Thought 30720-OL

Joseph Davis, Ph.D

(used copies of the following are fine, and multiple copies are listed on used book sites like , and )

Glatzer, Nahum. Modern Jewish Thought: A Source Reader. .Schocken, 1987.

Modern Jewish Thought (bookfinder.com link)

Bergman, Samuel H. Faith and Reason. 1963.

Faith and Reason (amazon.com link)

Who’s Who Among the Rabbis

Ruth Sandberg, Ph.D.

Rabbinics 30620-OL

The Jewish Study Bible, edited by Adele Berlin (Oxford University Press, 2004) – ISBN number 0195297512 ($29.70)

Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the Bible

Bible 30129/Thought 30729

Ruth Sandberg, Ph. D.

The Catholic Study Bible, eds. Donald Senior and John J. Collins. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0195282788. $23.99.

The Jewish Study Bible New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

ISBN-13: 978-0195297546. $32.99

All other materials will be distributed in class.

Introduction to Classical Judaism

Thought 30750-OL

Joseph Davis, Ph.D.

A Short History of the Jewish People, by Raymond Scheindlin. ISBN: 019-5139-410. Scheindlin, incidentally, is a Gratz alumnus. There is another version of this same book, with more pictures, called A Chronicle of the Jewish People.

Back to the Sources, ed. Barry Holtz. ISBN: 0-671-60596-8 (pbk.)

Both of the course textbooks are available on Amazon, among many other websites.

The Tanakh in some readable English translation. I myself use the Revised Standard Version (Christian, late 19th century), which is an updated and corrected version of the old “King James” translation that you find in motels and such-like. Many Gratz students like The Tanakh, which is a Jewish translation from about the 1960’s, or the recent JPS Study Bible, which includes a short but useful commentary.

Other texts will be distributed on the course website.

Wrestling with Parashat Hashavua: The Weekly Torah Portion

Jewish Education 40203A-OL/Bible 40103-OL

Joseph Davis, Ph.D

There is nothing students need to bring to the class except a Tanakh. Or in fact, a Chumash, they don't need a full Tanakh.( see notes under Introduction to Classical Judasim above for suggested versions of the Tanakh).

Stringing the Pearls: How to Read the Weekly Torah Portion. James S. Diamond.JPS, 2008.

ISBN: 0827608683

Before Hitler: East European Jewish Civilization

History 30533-OL

Michael Steinlauf, Ph.D.

Gershon Hundert, Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity ISBN 0520249941

Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, eds., The Jew in the Modern World, 3rd edition, 2010, ISBN 0195389069
Lucy Dawidowicz, ed., The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern EuropeISBN 0815604238

*Some other texts may be assigned in weeks after Thanksgiving. Please check back on the Netclassroom site then.

Israel in the Middle East

History 40539-OL/Political Science 40977-OL

Ofira Seliktar, Ph.D.

Israel: An Introduction. Barry Rubin. Yale University Press; Feb. 2012.

ISBN-13 978-0300162301

$26.96 on Amazon.com

Teaching the Holocaust

Jewish Education 40207-OL/History 30512-OL

Christine Schmidt, Ph. D.

(see listing under Holocaust and Genocide studies below)

Before Hitler: The Jews of Western Europe in Modern Times

History 30521A-OL

Lance Sussman, Ph.D.

REQUIRED [for purchase]

Arendt, Hannah.Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman (Mariner, 1974)

Efron, John, et.al, eds.The Jews: A History (Prentice Hall, 2009)

Mendes-Flohr, Paul and Reinharz, Jehuda, eds.The Jew in the Modern World (Oxford, 2010, 3rd edition)

RECOMMENDED

Elon, Amos.The Pity of It All: A History of the Jews in Germany, 1743-1933 (Picador, 2003)

Endelman, Todd M.The Jews of Britain, 1656-2000(University of California Press, 2002)

Friesel, Evyatar.Atlas of Modern Jewish History(Cara, 1990)

Hyman, Paula E.The Jews of Modern France (University of California Press, 1998)

Post-Holocaust Theology

Thought 40709-OL

Moshe Shner, Ph.D.

1. Textbooks:

1. Suggested additional reading list

HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES

Teaching the Holocaust

Jewish Education 40207-OL/History 30512-OL

Christine Schmidt, Ph. D.

Books

1.)Debórah Dwork, ed. Voices & Views: A History of the Holocaust. New York: Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, 2005. Available for purchase at or (Referred to as V&V in the weekly schedule.) ISBN: 0970060211. $60.00.

2.)Excerpts from Facing History and Ourselves publications (Available to download for free at after creating a free account).

3.)Other essay, article and online selections made available throughout the course, including unpublished resources.

Recommended Books [but NOT required]:

4.)Simone Schweber and Debbie Findling. Teaching about the Holocaust. Los Angeles: Torah Aura Productions, 2007. Available for purchase at ISBN: 9781891662911. $30.36

5.)Samuel Totten and Stephen Feinberg. Teaching and Studying the Holocaust. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001. Available for purchase at ISBN: 9781607523000. $45.99. We will be using several excerpts from this book, but students may find it useful in its entirety as a reference.

Films

• The Courage to Care [OR: Weapons of the Spirit, Classroom version]
• America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference

Before Hitler: The Jews of Western Europe in Modern Times

History 30521A-OL

Lance Sussman, Ph.D.

( see above under Jewish Studies)

Comparative Genocide

History 40557-OL

Sean Martin, Ph. D.

1. Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur, Ben Kiernan

Publisher: Yale University Press (February 17, 2009)

ISBN-10: 0300144253

ISBN-13: 978-0300144253

2.Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, Timothy Snyder

Publisher: Basic Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition (October 2, 2012)

ISBN-10: 0465031471

ISBN-13: 978-0465031474

3. Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir, Peter Balakian

Publisher: Basic Books; Revised Edition edition (February 10, 2009)

ISBN-10: 0465010199

ISBN-13: 978-0465010196

4. The Holocaust: The Third Reich and the Jews, David Engel

Publisher: Longman; 2nd Revised edition edition (September 27, 2012)

ISBN-10: 1408249944  ISBN-13: 978-1408249949

5. Crimes of War 2.0: What the Public Should Know (Revised and Expanded), Anthony Dworkin (Editor), Roy Gutman (Editor), David Rieff (Editor), Sheryl A. Mendez (Photographer)

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Revised and Expanded edition (November 17, 2007)

ISBN-10: 0393328465

Before Hitler: East European Jewish Civilization

History 30533-OL

Michael Steinlauf, Ph.D.

Gershon Hundert, Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity ISBN 0520249941

Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, eds., The Jew in the Modern World,3rd edition, 2010, ISBN 0195389069

Lucy Dawidowicz, ed., The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe ISBN 0815604238

*Some other texts may be assigned in weeks after Thanksgiving. Please check back on the Netclassroom site then.

The Holocaust and European Mass Murder

History 30510-OL

Michael Steinlauf, Ph.D.

Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews: vol. 1: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 ISBN9780060928780 paperback on Amazon for $13.78

Saul Friedlander, Nazi Germany and the Jews, vol. 2: The Years of Extermination, 1939-1945 ISBN9780060930486 paperback on Amazon for $14.99

Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin ISBN 9780465002399

Hardback on Amazon for $17.01 Kindle edition: $9.88

Post-Holocaust Theology

Thought 40709-OL

Moshe Shner, Ph.D.

1. Textbooks:

1. Suggested additional reading list

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