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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HEBR7302 / HEBRG017 Modern Hebrew (Lower Intermediate)
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Course code: |
HEBR7302 BA HEBRG017 MA |
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Tutor: |
Mrs Shosh Sharpe |
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Prerequisite: |
HEBR1006 (or equivalent) |
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Mode of assessment: |
BA: Coursework, oral assessment and final year unseen exam One term Junior Year Abroad: Coursework and end of term unseen exam |
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Textbook: |
Ivrit Min HaHath alah Bet (Hebrew from Scratch, vol. 2) |
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Classes: |
Mondays, 0900-1100 Room 331, Foster Court |
This course is a continuation of Modern Hebrew for Beginners (HEBR1006) and focuses on developing oral fluency, listening skills, reading comprehension and writing ability at second year level. Classes will be conducted primarily in Hebrew and will incorporate conversation, grammar, textual study and English to Hebrew translation. The course aims to develop students’ ability to express themselves orally and in writing on a broad range of everyday topics as well as more advanced areas such as current events and aspects of Israeli culture. Grammatical topics to be covered include the future tense, prepositions with pronominal suffixes, temporal clauses, conditionals, gerunds and simple passive constructions with the nif’al. Students will be encouraged to use the facilities of UCL Language Centre in addition to formal classes.
Mode of assessment
BA Assessment (HEBR7302)
- Coursework: 45%
- Oral assessment: (oral exam and continuous assessment) 20%
- End of year written exam (grammar, comprehension, translation, essays): 35%
One-term Junior Year Abroad Assessment (HEBR7302A September - December)
- Coursework: 50%
- End of term exam: 50%
