Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Jews in the Modern World
Term
2022C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
NELC
Section number only
401
Section ID
NELC0360401
Course number integer
360
Meeting times
TR 10:15 AM-11:14 AM
Meeting location
FAGN 216
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Beth S Wenger
Alexandra Zborovsky
Alexandra Zborovsky
Description
This course offers an intensive survey of the major currents in Jewish culture and society from the late middle ages to the present. Focusing upon the different societies in which Jews have lived, the course explores Jewish responses to the political, socio-economic, and cultural challenges of modernity.Topics to be covered include the political emancipation of Jews, the creation of new religious movements within Judaism, Jewish socialism, Zionism, the Holocaust, and the emergence of new Jewish communities in Israel and the United States. No prior background in Jewish history is expected.
Course number only
0360
Cross listings
HIST1710401, HIST1710401, JWST1710401, JWST1710401, RELS1710401, RELS1710401
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
History & Tradition Sector
History & Tradition Sector
Use local description
No