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3.00 Credits
Meaning and origins of modern Jewish history from 1492. The diverse experiences of Jewish communities across the globe. Men’s and women’s redefinition of Jewish identity as they confronted modernity. Rise of secular rights for Jews but also of new forms of persecution.
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3.00 Credits
Origins and development of Hebrew literature from Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century to post-modern Israeli literature written at the end of the twentieth century. Relationship between historical transformations and literary form.
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3.00 Credits
Science fiction and speculative fiction by Jewish writers in cultural context. Aliens, robots, and secret identities; time travel; utopia and political critique; questions of Jewish identity.
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3.00 Credits
The historical relationship between African Americans and Jewish Americans and its portrayal in novels, short stories, and films by artists from both communities.
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3.00 Credits
The flowering of Jewish humor, especially in the U.S. during the twentieth century. Vaudeville, radio comedy, and the Golden Age of television. The careers and works of influential comics, writers and filmmakers, and the development of stand-up comedy. The effect of Talmudic disputes, Yiddish wordplay, and the history of Diaspora life upon secular Jewish comedians, essayists, playwrights, and fiction writers.
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3.00 Credits
The flowering of Jewish humor, especially in the U.S. during the twentieth century. Vaudeville, radio comedy, and the Golden Age of television. The careers and works of influential comics, writers and filmmakers, and the development of stand-up comedy. The effect of Talmudic disputes, Yiddish wordplay, and the history of Diaspora life upon secular Jewish comedians, essayists, playwrights, and fiction writers.
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3.00 Credits
Diversity, individualism, and change in Jewish life. Food and culture, memory and identity, gender and assimilation, Reform-Conservative-Orthodox culture wars.
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3.00 Credits
The history of the Holocaust: its origins, development, and its legacy in the context of Germany and European history.
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3.00 Credits
Changing Jewish communities, especially outside the United States and Israel, in macro-historical context. New global diasporas (Russian, North African, Israeli); post-communist European Jewish identity; and relations with the largest Jewish communities in Israel and the United States.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Judaism and Jewish history through philosophical, political, social, psychological, and artistic perspectives. biblical studies; antiquity and the medieval world; modern and contemporary experience; and culture, philosophy, and literature.
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