AJst 245 - Imagining the Jewish Nation:? Jews in the Modern World

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SUNY at Albany

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With the onset of the modern age, many European Jews began to understand both Judaism and their own Jewish identities in ways other than as the adherence to Jewish law (Halakhah). One of the most successful and enduring efforts to re-conceive the Jewish people was via the (mostly secular) ideology of nationalism. Today, Jewish nationalism is typically understood as the ideology of Zionism, which in turn is equated with the State of Israel. However, in the years leading up to the founding of the Jewish state (1948), the meaning and direction of Jewish nationalism was hotly contested and debated by Jewish thinkers and activists. Indeed, even aslate as World War II, the course of Jewish nationalism was far from certain as Jewish moderates, radicals, revisionists, and the religiously orthodox sought to dominate the movement, while others, out of political and/or religious convictions, resisted ideologies of Jewish nationalism altogether.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.albany.edu

Phone Number:

(518) 442-3300

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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