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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Historical investigation of the evolution of Nazi policies toward Jews; of Jewish behavior in the face of those policies; and of the attitudes of other countries, both within and outside the Nazi orbit, for the situation of Jews under the rule of the Third Reich.
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4.00 Credits
Concentrates on the social, political, and cultural forces that shaped Jewish life in post-1945 Europe. Topics include reconstruction of Jewish communities, repression and anti-Semitic campaigns in the Soviet Union and Poland, the impact of Israel, emigration and migration, Jewish-Christian relations, and assimilation and acculturation. Students also learn about various reactions to the Holocaust.
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4.00 Credits
Examines representations of the Holocaust in Hebrew fiction/poetry. Among issues to be explored are the differences between responses of the Jewish community in Palestine at the time of the event and later reconstruction by survivors and witnesses, and the new perspectives added since the 1980s by children of survivors, who have made the Holocaust a central topic in contemporary Israeli culture.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates the ways in which Jews have constructed gender during the rabbinic, medieval, and modern periods. Examines the implication of these constructions for the religious and social lives of Jewish women and men.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of the impact of modernity on Jewish life and institutions in the 18th and 19th centuries. Readings in English from the works of Moses Mendelssohn, Theodor Herzl, Simon Dubnow, and the leading figures of the early Reform, Conservative, and neo-Orthodox movements. The convergence and divergence of nationalist and universalist sentiments are studied. Honors Courses (Note: Additional honors courses are announced each year.)
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4.00 Credits
The destruction of European Jewry has been a focus in the study of Nazi extermination policies. This course looks at Nazi policies toward the Jewish people and examines how the "racial state" dealt with those it deemed "racially unfit" to belong to the German Volk. It considers the ways in which the Nazis sought to create a nation based on blood and race. It examines policies toward the "enemies" of the Third Reich, including Jews, Sinti and Roma (Gypsies), Afro- Germans, homosexuals, the physically and mentally disabled, and "asocials," as well as how these policies interacted with each other. It also examines measures to delegitimize, isolate, rob, incarcerate, sterilize, and/or murder many of these minorities.
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4.00 Credits
Extensive selections from a representative range of Israeli media, including newspapers, magazines, and broadcasting. Stresses study of various approaches in the different media, as well as practical exercises in comprehending Israeli press styles.
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4.00 Credits
Comprehensive introduction to representative works of modern Hebrew literature from the writers of the Hebrew national renaissance of the late 19th century to the present. Focuses on thematic and structural analysis of texts in light of social and Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies intellectual movements of the period. Readings include selections from Peretz, Berdichevsky, Ahad Ha'am, Gnessin, Brenner, Agnon, Hazaz, Yehoshua, and Appelfeld.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to some of the major texts and concepts in the Jewish tradition from the Bible to today. Texts to be studied include the Bible, rabbinic literature, medieval biblical commentaries, Jewish philosophy, and Kabbalah. Particular attention is paid to the role of interpretation in the Jewish tradition.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the body of imaginative literature (novels, short stories, poetry, and drama) written by American Jews. Links these literary works to the changing position of Jews within American society.
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