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Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies

Calendars

Fall 2022 Academic Calendar

All entries are subject to updates

DAY/S OF THE WEEK DATE/S EVENT
Monday-Thursday April 25- September 1 Online Registration for Fall 2022 Semester. A late registration fee of $50 begins September 2
Wednesday August 24 First Day of Classes
Monday September 5 Labor Day, No Classes
Wednesday September 7 Last day to Add or Drop a Course without special permission. 
Last day to withdraw and drop a course with 100% tuition refund and no mark on academic record
Wednesday  September 7 Last day to submit work for Fall 2021 Incomplete Grades
Wednesday September 14 Written Comprehensive Exam for September 2022 MA Degree Candidates
Last day to withdraw and drop a course with 75% tuition refund
Monday September 19 Last day to withdraw and drop a course with 50% tuition refund
Wednesday

September 21

Last day to submit change of grades for incomplete grades earned in Fall 2021
Friday September 23 Last day to withdraw and drop a course with 25% tuition refund. Students will be subject to full tuition payment for classes dropped after this date
Monday

September 26

Mark of "W" begins for course withdrawal
Monday-Tuesday  September 26-27 Rosh Hashana, No Classes
Wednesday September 28 Tzom Gedaliah, No Classes
Thursday- Thursday Sept. 29-Oct. 6 All classes will take place remotely; October 4-5, Yom Kippur, No Classes
Thursday September 29 Follows a Monday schedule
Tuesday- Wednesday Oct. 4-5 Yom Kippur, No Classes
Thursday Oct.  6 Follows a Tuesday schedule
Friday- Wednesday  Oct. 7- Oct. 19 Sukkot Recess, No Classes
Thursday October 20 Classes Resume
Tuesday November 1 Last Day to File for Comprehensive Examination (with the Revel office) for January 2023 MA Degree to be taken on December 14. Last Day to File for January MA 2023 Degree with the Registar's office
Monday-Monday Nov. 7 - Jan. 23 Online Registration for Spring 2023 without a late fee
Thursday-Friday November 24-25 Thanksgiving Recess, No Classes
Saturday November 26 Bernard Revel Memorial Day, 2 Kislev
Friday December 2 Last Day to Drop a Course and without a "W" appearing on transcript.  Students are obligated to complete the work in any course not officially dropped by this date. Applications for spring 2023 admission to the MA program and for scholarships for that program (including all supporting documents) filed by this date will receive priority in the granting of financial aid. This also applies to scholarship applications from current MA students. Late applications will be considered
Wednesday December 14 Written Comprehensive Examination for January 2023 MA Degree Candidates
Monday-Tuesday December 19-20 Association for Jewish Studies Conference. Instructors may reschedule classes
Monday-Monday Dec. 19-Dec. 26 Hanukkah, Classes Meet
Thursday December 29 Last Day of Classes
Tuesday January 3

Fast of Tevet

Tuesday January 3 Last Day to apply for admission to the Doctoral Program for Fall 2023, including submission of supporting materials
Wednesday  January 11 All Fall 2022 grades are due
Thursday January 12 Harry Fischel Memorial Day, 19 Tevet
Tuesday January 13 Official Date of Graduation for January 2023

Spring 2023 Academic Calendar

All entries are subject to updates

DAY/S OF THE WEEK DATE/S EVENT
Mon-Mon Nov. 7 - Jan 23 Online Registration for Spring 2023. A late fee of $50 begins January 31. 
Tuesday January 3 Last Day to apply for admission to the Doctoral Program for Fall 2023, including submission of supporting materials
Wednesday January 18 First Day of Classes
Tuesday January 31 Official Date of Graduation for January 2023
Tuesday January 31 Last Day to Submit Work for Spring 2022 and Summer 2022 Incomplete Grades
Tuesday January 31

Last Day to Add a course without special permission. Last day to withdraw and drop a course with 100% refund and no mark on academic record

Tuesday February 7 Last day to withdraw and drop a course with 75% refund
Tuesday February 14 Last day to submit change of grades for incomplete grades earned in Spring 2022 and Summer 2022
Tuesday February 14 Last day to withdraw and drop a course with 50% refund
Tuesday  February 21 Last day to withdraw and drop a course with 25% tuition refund. Students will be subject to full tuition payment for classes dropped after this date and without a "W" appearing on transcript
Wednesday February 22 Mark of "W" begins for course withdrawals
Wednesday March 1 Last Day to File for May 2023 Degree with the Registrar's office
Monday  March 6 Ta‘anit Esther, No Classes
Tuesday March 7 Purim, No Classes
Thursday Mach 9 Follows a Tuesday schedule
Wednesday March 22 Preferred date for applications to the Masters Program for Fall 2023 admission, including all supporting documents, by applicants and current students requesting scholarships and fellowships. Late applications will be considered, but priority in the granting of financial aid will be given to those who file by this date
Friday March 24 Last Day to File for Comprehensive Examination (in the Revel office) for May 2023 degree.
Monday  April 3 Classes will take place remotely
Tuesday- Sunday April 4-16 Passover Recess, No Classes
Sunday April 9 Rabbi Samuel Belkin and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Memorial Day, 18 Nisan
Monday April 17 Classes Resume
Monday - Thursday Apr. 17 - June 2022 Online registration for Summer 2023
Tuesday April 18 Last day to Drop a Course with a "W" mark on academic record. Students are obligated to complete the work in any course not officially dropped by this date.
Monday - Thursday April 24 - August 31 Online registration for Fall 2023 semester
Wednesay April 26 Yom ha-‘Azma’ut , No Classes
Wednesday May 10 Written Comprehensive Examination for May 2023 MA Degree Candidates. 
Thursday May 18 Last Day of Classes
Thursday May 25 Commencement Exercises
Tuesday May 31 Official degree conferral date
Friday June 30 Last Day to File for September 2023 Degree with the Registrar’s office.
Friday June 30 Last Day to File for Comprehensive Examination (in the Revel office) for September 2023 Degree.

HARRY FISCHEL SCHOOL FOR HIGHER JEWISH STUDIES AT BERNARD REVEL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES

Revel is offering an online summer program this year.

Application and scholarship request forms are at www.yu.edu/revel/admissions

Please submit these by email to reveladmissions@yu.edu

Course registration will be done online. Please go to : https://www.yu.edu/revel/student-resources. Scroll down and click: Instructions for Web Registration.


SUMMER SESSION 2023

Classes for credit are open to qualified graduate and advanced undergraduate students in Jewish Studies and related fields at Yeshiva University and other academic institutions. (Appropriate documents must be filed in the Office of the Dean, Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies). Students at Yeshiva University may take these courses toward fulfilling degree requirements. Students from other institutions may take the courses as transient students for possible transfer credit at their home institution. Qualified individuals who do not fit into these categories may register with permission of the Dean.

ACADEMIC CALENDAR*

Classes meet
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday June 20-22

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday June 26-July 20


MONDAY April 17 -THURSDAY June 22



Online Registration

TUESDAY, June 20

First day of classes

MONDAY, June 26

Late registration. Last day to add a course.

THURSDAY, June 29

 

 

Last day to drop a course without its appearing on record. Last day to withdraw from a course with 100% tuition refund. Students will be subject to full tuition payment for classes dropped after this date.
 

Friday, June 30

Mark of "W" begins for course withdrawals.

Deadline to apply for the September 2023 MA comprehensive examination and register for Masters Research with the Revel office; Deadline to apply for the September 2023 degree with the Registrar's office

MONDAY, July 3 Last day to drop a course with a "W" mark on academic record. Students are obligated to complete the work in any course not officially dropped by this date.

THURSDAY, July 20

Last Day of Classes. Last day to complete & submit work for Spring 2023 incomplete work

MONDAY, August 21 Final grades for summer 2023 due
Friday, September 29 Degree conferral date

*All entries are subject to updates

 

SCHEDULE OF COURSES

Courses that are starred (*) do not require Hebrew

9:00 am - 10:40 am Dr. Debra Kaplan (Bar Ilan University)

JHI 6391 Print Culture and the Jewish World (CRN 80482)

What is a Jewish book? Books read by Jews encompassed a wide range of text, and the  content and materiality of these texts changed over time. In this course we will focus on the early modern period, when the printing press first developed, and the tremendous impact that this new "print culture" had on Jewish life, learning, and communities. Topics include the shift from manuscript to print, the printing of the Talmud, male and female literacy, new religious and vernacular texts, censorship, life in the print shop, translation, Christian Hebraism, and the development of an "international" Jewish community of readers.

11:00am-12:40 pm Dr. Shana Schick (Bar Ilan University)

TAS 5804 Talmud Yerushalmi and Bavli - Development and Methodology (CRN 80484)

This course is devoted to the relationship between the Talmuds Yerushalmi and Bavli as discussed in modern scholarship. Through critical analyses of several parallel sugyot, we will explore how the Bavli reworks Yerushalmi sources, to what extent the Talmud Yerushalmi was available to the Babylonian Sages, and how material from each locale was incorporated in the other Talmud. We will also uncover how the two talmuds differ in terms of terminology, methodology, and jurisprudence and consider the source for these differences, including the role of the Bavli's redactors as well as the divergent cultural contexts of Greco-Roman Palestine and Sasanian Iran.

6:00 pm - 7:40 pm Dr. Shalom Holtz

BIB 7720 Book of Amos (CRN 80480)

A study of the Book of Amos that introduces students to modern historical and philological methods of biblical exegesis. Class discussions will focus on reading and interpreting the text itself, as well as on important broader topics that emerge from secondary literature.

7:50pm-9:30 pm Dr. Alexander Green (SUNY University at Buffalo)

JPH 6205* Visions of the Just Society in Medieval Jewish, Christian and Islamic Philosophy (CRN 80483)

Medieval Jewish, Christian and Islamic philosophers often interpreted their sacred texts as guidebooks for how to create the ideal society. In doing so, they each strove to delineate the nature of justice and how their particular religious law best serves to achieve it. Yet one must ask: how can their spiritual vision be brought into the real world, and would it even be desirable to do so? We will consider both the arguments for and against bringing together religion and politics, ending with Spinoza's case for the division of philosophy, religion and politics.

9:00 am- 10:40 am Dr. Joseph Angel

BIB 5201* Beginners Biblical Hebrew I (CRN 80479)

This course introduces students to Standard Biblical Hebrew (SBH) and lays the foundation for direct study of the Hebrew Bible. Working systematically through a textbook, students are introduced to the alphabet and vowel system and to the basic elements of the language, grammar, and vocabulary of the Hebrew Bible. By the end of the course, students will have studied numerous samples of biblical texts and be able to read, analyze and understand a number of biblical narrative passages.

 

 

All classes 
 All classes will meet on Yeshiva University’s Zoom platform

For further information contact:
Office of the Dean
Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies
Yeshiva University
500 West 185th Street, Furst Hall Third Floor
New York, NY 10033-3201
Email:
reveladmissions@yu.edu

 

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