Courses

For official course descriptions and scheduled instructors, please consult the Dartmouth course descriptions and requirements published by the Office of the Registrar. For detailed information about the terms and times that courses will be offered, please refer to the Timetable of Class Meetings.

Summer 2026

*Subject to Change*

*JWST 12.03/COLT 50.02 (11) Irish and Jewish Identities: Crossovers in Culture. Aidan Beatty (CI)

*JWST 40.01/MES 12.09/GOVT 40.09 (10A) Politics of Israel/Palestine Yair Wallach (INT or SOC, W)

JWST 85 (ARR) Independent Study and Research. Heschel

Fall 2026

*Subject to Change*

JWST 6/*REL 006 (11) Judaism: Sacred Texts and Ritual Life in Diaspora. Feldman (TMV, W)

JWST 6.01 (6B) Revelation and Interpretation in Rabbinic, Philosophical, and Mystical Literature. Wolfson (TMV, W)

*JWST 12.04/GERM 44.0 (12) Exile and Hope in Yiddish and Hebrew Literature. S chwartz (CI, LIT)

JWST 27.01/*COLT 46.01 (3A) The Jewish Family. Kritzman (LIT)

JWST 34.03/*GERM 44.06 (3B) German-Jewish History. FSP (Berlin). Fuechtner and Heschel (INT, CI)

*JWST 34.05/EEER 38.24 (2) Jewish Folklore. Gronas and Lion (INT or LIT, W)

JWST 40.01/ MES 12.09/*GOV 40.09 (10) Politics of Israel & Palestine. Avishai (INT or SOC, NW, S

JWST 44.01/MES 15.11/*FILM 42.19 (6B) The Middle East in Film: Picturing the Past and Present. A. Simon (ART, NW)

JWST 62 /*REL 23 (3A) Jewish Mysticism. Wolfson (TMV, W)

JWST 85 (ARR) Independent Study and Research. Heschel

Winter 2027

*Subject to Change*

*\JWST 53/WGSS 33.3/*REL 19.22 (6B) Gender and Judaism. Greenblatt (TMV, CI)

JWST 7 (TBD) Dance and Jewish Culture. Singer

Spring 2027

*Subject to Change*

*JWST 09 (2A) Jews and Judaism in the Americas. Heschel (TMV, W)

JWST 10/*HIST 94.08/MES 16.15 (10A) History and Culture of the Jews I: The Classical Period. Hames (SOC, W)

JWST 26/*COLT 70.03/INTS 17.14 (2A) European Jewish Intellectuals. Kritzman (TMV, W)

*JWST 34.02/HIST 94.12/GERM 44.02 (12) History of Jews in Germany. Ben-Tov (SOC, CI)

JWST 34.06/EEER 50.05/HIST** (10A/2A) History of Russian and Eastern European Jewry. Finkel

JWST 36.04/MES 17.22/*REL 28.08 (2) The Qur'an in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Ben-Tov (INT or SOC, W)

JWST 40.06 (6B) Jerusalem: A Cultural History. Greenblatt (INT, NW)

JWST 42.11/MES 17.19/HUM 3.06/COLT 53.07 (6B) The Arab, the Jew, and the Construction of Modernity. Heschel & El-Ariss (INT or LIT, NW)

JWST 42.12/*MES 12.18 (2A) Difficult Conversations on the Middle East. Fishere & Smolin (INT, NW)

JWST 67.03/MES 12.17 (10A) 1967: The War That Never Ended. Heschel & Smolin (INT or SOC, NW)

*JWST 74.01/REL 57.02 (11) The Jewish Jesus. Steiner (TMV, W)