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Job Posting – Teaching Assistant Position
Winter Term 2025 (January to April)
**THIS IS AN EMERGENCY POSTING**
Posted on Friday, January 10, 2025
Closing date: Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The ATCJS seeks 1 Teaching Assistants for the following course:
CJS290H-S – Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Zionism, Post-Zionism, Anti-Zionism
Zionism emerged in late nineteenth century Europe (alongside other species of Jewish nationalisms) with a radical proposal to change not only Jews’ social and cultural conditions as an ethno-religious minority, but also their basic self-conception. This proposal, at once a renewal and a repudiation of Jewish tradition, has been debated by Jews inside and outside the movement ever since. Internally, political Zionists, cultural Zionists, religious Zionists, liberal Zionists, revolutionary Zionists, etc. disagreed among themselves about the movements’ ideals and goals as well as about the proper means to their realization, while, externally, ultraorthodox Jews, Reform Jews, and assimilationist Jews all had their reasons to oppose Zionism in general.
In the wake of the Holocaust, most of the world’s remaining Jews acknowledged Zionism’s necessity and took pride in its incredible success in establishing Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Yet, even then, debates about Zionism’s purposes and principles persisted among Jews both within and beyond the new state’s borders. Recent years have witnessed a dramatic intensification of these debates, as Jewish communities around the world find themselves fractured into Zionist, anti-Zionist, and post-Zionist camps that offer competing narratives and assessments about the past 150 years of Jewish history.
What might Jews mean today when they identify as Zionist, anti-Zionist, or post-Zionist? What reasons do they give to themselves and to other Jews to justify these identities? How do other Jews respond to Jewish identities that contradict their own? This course takes up these questions in an effort to help students understand better these live and heated debates among Zionists, anti-Zionists, and Post-Zionists about Jews’ identity, flourishing, and future.
Qualifications
Applicants should have at least an MA with a background in Jewish philosophy, political theory, and/or Zionism, preferably with a concentration in Jewish Studies. First consideration will be given to full-time graduate students at the University of Toronto.
Relevant Criterion
Previous experience is the more relevant criterion than the need to acquire experience in respect of this posted position.
Duties
- Attending weekly lectures in-person
- Responding to student inquiries and having meetings
- Grading assignments
Duties of this position shall be performed at the campus on which the position is located.
Class Schedule: Mondays from 11am-1pm
Dates of Appointment: January 6 – April 4, 2025
Hours of work: approx. 60 hours
Estimated Course Enrolment: 20 students
Rate of Pay: $52.97 (+ vacation pay)
Application Process
Applications should be sent to the attention of Professor Anna Shternshis by January 14, 2024. The email applications should be sent to is: cjs.toronto@utoronto.ca.
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The hiring criteria for Teaching Assistant positions are academic qualifications, the need to acquire experience, previous experience and previous satisfactory employment under the provisions of this Collective Agreement.
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Positions posted here are open to Graduate Students in the School of Graduate Studies, Postdoctoral Fellows and Undergraduate Students in the University of Toronto.
Preference in hiring shall be given to Graduate Students enrolled in the School of Graduate Studies of the University of Toronto or those who have made application to be enrolled in the School of Graduate Studies of the University of Toronto.