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3.00 Credits
Recommended: HIST282/JWST234. Also offered as HIST373. Not open to students who have completed HIST418C/JWST419C (Fall 2006, Fall 2004) or HIST419C/JWST419Y (Spring 2001). Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST333, HIST373, HIST418C/JWST419C (Fall 2006, Fall 2004) or HIST419C/JWST419Y (Spring 2001). Formerly JWST419C. Emergence of new powerful population centers, religious and cultural creativity, new forms of community, and radical messianic movements.
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3.00 Credits
Also offered as HIST376. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST342 or HIST376. Ideological and political factors leading to the establishment of a secular Jewish state in 1948; Zionist thought of Herzl, Ahad Haam, the socialist and religious Zionists, and the revisionists; diplomatic activities; Arab-Israel conflict; post-1948 Israeli society.
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3.00 Credits
Also offered as HIST374. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST343 or HIST374. Social, political, economic, and cultural change in the Jewish world since 1650. Emphasis on emancipation, assimilation, and new forms of Jewish identity in Western and Eastern European Jewry from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
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3.00 Credits
Also offered as HIST375. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST344 or HIST375. Continuation of JWST343: Social, political, economic, and cultural change in the Jewish world since 1870. Emphasis on emancipation, assimilation, and new forms of Jewish identity in Western and Eastern European Jewry from the 19th Century to the present.
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3.00 Credits
Also offered as HIST307. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST345 or HIST307. Roots of Nazi Jewish policy in the 1930s and during World War II: the process of destruction and the implementation of the "final solution of the Jewish problem" in Europe, and the responses made by the Jews to their concentration and annihilation.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the primary texts of the literary canon of the Holocaust: Night by Elie Wiesel, The Diary of Anne Frank, Maus by Art Spiegelman, and other lesser known works. Exploration of the strategies used by authors of Holocaust narratives to depict a subject matter that has long been considered impossible, and to some extent, unethical to render in a work of art.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HEBR314 or permission of instructor. Not open to students who have completed HEBR381. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HEBR381 or JWST381. Critical study of Israeli culture with special emphasis or literature film, and art as sites of struggle over political and social meaning during times of cultural transformation in Israel. Topics will focus on the historical development of Israeli identity and gender, in particular within the military and Zionist youth movements. Taught in Hebrew.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HEBR314 or permission of instructor. Also offered as HEBR382. Not open to students who have completed HEBR382. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HEBR382 or JWST382. Examines various media genres in Israeli today: print news, magazines, television and radio news, print and video advertising, the internet, popular music on CD and the radio, video art and film and the self-representation of Israeli society and the interaction between media and society and culture. Taught in Hebrew.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: permission of department. Junior standing. An in-depth exploration of a theme in Jewish history, literature, culture or thought. Course subject and readings will vary from year to year, but will generally cut across periods, locations, or disciplines. Students are expected to engage the course material critically and to use the seminar as an opportunity to develop an independent research agenda.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: two upper-level courses in an appropriate area of Jewish Studies or permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Formerly JWST309. A capstone course for Jewish Studies. Guides students through advanced source material and subject matter, research skills, and presentation techniques. A substantive paper based on independent research and analysis is one expected outcome.
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