Course Syllabi

The following materials have been submitted in response to Kolot's call for course syllabi in the fields of Gender and Judaism and Jewish Women's Studies. If you would like to contribute to this resource, please send your documents to Rabbi Sarra Lev, '96, Ph.D., acting director of Kolot.

• Jewish Women's Spirituality: An Historical Perspective
• Gender and Autobiography in Modern Jewish History
   

• Judaism and Gender
   

• Women and Judaism
   

• Hebrew Scriptures – The Tanakh: The Women of the Hebrew Bible
   

• Women in the Jewish Experience
   

• Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution
   

• Love, Sex and Marriage: Jewish Ethical Arguments
• Jewish Law: Gender Issues
• Women and Religion: Judaism
• Women and Jewish History: The Modern Period
• Gender Issues in Modern Jewish History
• Women in Jewish History: Ancient and Medieval
   

• Women and Judaism
   

• Halakha and Aggadah
   

• Hebrew Bible and the Feminist Imagination
• Queering Jewish Studies
   

• Topics in Jewish History: American Jewish Women's History 
   

• Jewish Women in the United States
   

• Shaping Their Destinies: Women and Jewish History
   

• Gender, the Body, and Sexuality in Judaism from Biblical Israel to Contemporary America
   

• The Bible and Modern Hebrew Women Writers: Feminist Perspectives
   

In addition, Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry, and Cheryl Tallan have kindly given permission to excerpt the table of contents of and introduction to The JPS Guide to Jewish Women 600 B.C.E 1900 C.E (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2003). As noted by Cheryl Tallan: "It in itself is a course outline for any course in Jewish women's history and can be adapted to any course structure that deals with Jewish women in the past."