HJS News
UCL Festival of the Arts May 7-17
Start:
May 7, 2013 1:00:00 PM
End:
May 17, 2013 7:30:00 PM
Location:
various venues, UCL Bloomsbury Campus More...
Europe and the Holocaust - Shifts in Public Debates in Poland, Germany and the UK
The panel investigates shifts in the role of the Holocaust in European
public debates in the recent past. Contrasting developments in Poland,
Germany, and Great Britain, we will identify common threads as well as
differences in perceiving, presenting, memorizing the mass murder of
European Jewries.
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Graduate Student Conference: Jewish Spirituality in Eastern Europe
The Yiddish Forverts has recently published a report from the Graduate Student Conference on ‘Jewish Spirituality in Eastern Europe – a Textual Perspective,’ held at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL on 6-7 June, 2012. The article, authored by conference participant Adi Mahalel (Columbia University), is available online on the website of the Forverts: http://yiddish.forward.com/node/4589 More...
New publication: The Russian-Jewish Diaspora and European Culture, 1917-1937
Over a period of three years, the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at
UCL has been cooperating in a research project devoted to 'Cultural Continuitiy
in the Diaspora: Paris and Berlin in 1917-1937', based at the Department of
European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath, and in cooperation
with the Centre for European and International Studies at the University of
Portsmouth. The project had been funded by the Leverhulme Trust Academic
Collaboration-International Network scheme. Among the initiators of the project
had been the late John D. Klier. More...
International Graduate Student Conference 2012
The Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at UCL is pleased to announce plans for an International Graduate Student Conference, devoted to explorations of multiple aspects of Jewish spirituality in Eastern Europe, to be held on 5th and 6th of June 2012 in London. The conference organizers invite graduate students and recent PhD holders to submit their proposals. We welcome presentations addressing any aspect of the religious history and religious culture of Eastern European Jewry, with an emphasis on their textual products. We are particularly interested in proposals which open up new perspectives and pose new questions regarding conceptual frameworks and traditional definitions used to describe Eastern Europe in the field of Jewish Studies. Topics may include:
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Students
Students currently enrolled in the Department on either a graduate or undergraduate course can find information on their course below.
Student Essentials - All you need is....
Right here below. The links below will provide you with all the information necessary, from essay essentials to information on spending a year abroad and much more. Please comb through these links carefully as you will find that they answer most, if not all your questions. But should you have any further queries, please do get in touch with us and we will be happy to help.
Current Course List - What we are teaching
Current Course Timetable - When and Where
Staff Student Consultative Committee
All BA degrees are taught and examined on the course-unit system, in which a student normally takes four units a year. Examinations are taken at the end of each year, and most courses have an essay component, or are assessed by essay work alone. Language courses are assessed by coursework, an oral component and exams.
The department offers four BA Honours degree programmes:
- BA Hebrew & Jewish Studies Q480
- BA Jewish History V290
- BA Jewish Studies Q481
- BA History (Central and East European) and Jewish Studies VV23
In the first year, students for both the Hebrew & Jewish Studies and Jewish History degrees (unless exempted) study Introduction to Classical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew for Beginners, and a Survey of Jewish History and Culture (2 units). These together make up the four units required in the first year.
Of the remaining units required after the first year, one per year may be drawn from adjacent fields (such as Egyptology, archaeology, European history or indeed from any other subject taught by UCL or elsewhere within the University of London, by arrangement with the relevant department) and the rest from the range of options available.
All students are required to take some language and text courses within the department. The minimum requirement is five course units for the BA in Hebrew & Jewish Studies and three for the BA in Jewish History.
The normal length of each degree programme is four years, though students who on entry have a good knowledge of Hebrew, defined as comparable to the Advanced Modern Hebrew course (HEBR7304) demonstrated by examination in the middle of the second year, may be permitted to complete it in three years.
The department offers a combined-studies degree with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, for which SSEES is the admitting institution. The degree is entitled BA History (Central and East European) and Jewish Studies.
Undergraduate students can also study in the department as either:
A Junior Year Abroad Student or
Scholarships
The Professor Chimen Abramsky Scholarship has been established through a generous donation from an alumnus of the UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies. The scholarship will provide financial support to an outstanding UK undergraduate student in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies. One scholarship will be awarded in 2013 subject to successful applications. For more information, click here: Professor Chimen Abramsky Scholarship
The Master of Arts (MA) degree in the department is a self-standing degree, but may also serve as preparation for the research degrees of MPhil and PhD. The MA is appropriate either for students with a broad undergraduate background in this area who wish to focus their knowledge more closely, or for students with a different undergraduate experience who wish to make progress in the areas of Hebrew, Yiddish, Semitic or Jewish Studies.
The Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies runs four MA programmes, which are pathways of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities MA in Language, Culture and History. The four pathways are:
- MA in Hebrew & Jewish Studies
- MA in Holocaust Studies
- MA in Modern Israeli Studies
- MA in Jewish History
The MA programme, which begins in September, is one calendar year in length, or two years if taken part-time. Although it contains an element of research work, the MA is primarily a taught degree, which means that students attend courses which they select from amongst all the courses taught in the department in any given year. Candidates also write a dissertation, based on an independent research project. They are examined on all this work at the end of the academic year.
The majority of classes in the department are open to advanced undergraduates as well as graduates. In such classes, known as "non-dedicated-classes", graduates are required to submit a piece of written work, to be marked, returned and discussed with the student.
Under exceptional circumstances, members of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies can direct the research projects (towards either the MPhil or PhD degrees) of students who are not resident in the United Kingdom.
Further information on postgraduate study is contained in the links below.
If you have studied at UCL for more than three months then you are a member of
the UCL Alumni Network. For information on everything that is available
to former students of UCL you can visit the website (www.ucl.ac.uk/alumni) of UCL Alumni
Relations.
At the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, we want to ensure that our
students have the best possible education at UCL. You can help us to
provide this by making a gift to the Department. All donations will be
used to support our students. Past donations have included the provision of
bursaries for students on their Year Abroad.
The Department keeps in touch with its alumni. We send our twice-yearly
Departmental Newsletter to all HJS alumni, either by post or by email. If you
would like to contribute to an edition, please email your article, together
with your name and years of study, to jewish.studies@ucl.ac.uk.
We also invite alumni to departmental events during the academic year.
If you would like to hear about events run by the Institute of Jewish Studies, contact ijs@ucl.ac.uk to be added to their emailing list.
Reference Request Form
Non-degree students are eligible to participate in Hebrew and Jewish Studies courses through UCL’s Continuing Education programme. Continuing Education students will not receive accreditation.
Information on how to apply, course fees and information can be found at:
