🐯 Princeton Judaic Studies unofficial reading list 2026
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| Sophomore level | |
|---|---|
| Elementary / Intermediate Hebrew I JDS 205 / 208 (fa26) |
• First and Foremost: Hebrew for Beginners by Ateret Yarden-Barak Goni Tishaler |
| Judaism, Christianity & Islam: Their Emergence in Antiquity JDS 245 (fa26) |
• The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha • The Qur’an |
| Jews Across the Americas JDS 257 (fa26) |
• Like a Bride & Like a Mother by Rosa Nissán • God of Vengeance by Donald Margulies • The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935 by Matthew Baigell • Jews Across the Americas: A Sourcebook, 1492–Present by Brodsky & Leibman |
| Junior level | |
|---|---|
| The World of the Cairo Geniza JDS 351 (fa26) |
• In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale by Amitav Ghosh • Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Hoffman & Cole • Trade & Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza Merchants & their Business World by Jessica L. Goldberg • Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History by Craig Perry |