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A cultural study of the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and failure of Israeli and Palestinian doves to transform their respective communities and to change conditions on the ground. Focus on self-criticism as manifested in Israeli and Palestinian literature and cinema and on its limits. Open only to students in the Focus Program. Instructor: Ginsburg
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Examines relations between the physical and spiritual spaces that make up Jerusalem. Explores the topography, demography, infrastructure, history, and cultures of the city Focuses on the interaction and conflicts between ethnicities, religions, cultures and political entities Studies divergent discourses about the city and examines the relationship between these discourses and the materiality of the city. Instructor: Ginsburg
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The examination of contemporary Israeli culture through art, film, architecture, and literature. Concentration on interdisciplinary critical approaches to culture; interconnections of culture and Zionist ideology in the Israeli projection of the nation. Instructor: Ginsburg
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A comparative approach to Israeli cinema, in the context of American and European cinemas. Cinema and nationalism. Cinematic representations of social, political, racial, and ethnic tensions and fissures: social gap, immigration to and emigration from Israel, militarism and civil society, masculinity and femininity, and the Israeli-Arab conflict. Popular culture and its relationship with high culture. Instructor: Ginsburg
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Surveys representations of the Jewish Holocaust in World Cinema Explores different filmic strategies employed to represent what is commonly deemed as ¿beyond representation¿ Examines the heated debate spurred by a number of Holocaust films. Asks whether anything is permissible in representing such an event: Is there an appropriate way, in contradistinction to inappropriate way, to represent the Jewish Holocaust? Instructor: Ginsburg
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The period between the year A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1500. Jewish activity in western Europe; the church's attitude toward the Jews; their monetary activity and the history of their families and their private lives. Instructor: Shatzmiller
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Major developments in Jewish history from the early modern period to today. The Kehillah, the Spanish-Jewish Diaspora, the rise of Polish Jewry, the Safed Kabbalah, Sabbatianism, the emergence of the Chassidut, the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment), Emancipation and the nation state, Reform Judaism, economic modernization, racial antisemitism, Zionism, the Holocaust, the State of Israel, flourishing Jewish pluralism in the United States, the future: nation and Diaspora?
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The crusades to the Holy Land and other manifestations of European expansionism, for example, the reconquest of Spain and the foundation of a Norman Kingdom in Sicily. Instructor: Shatzmiller
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The historical development of the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The emergence of nation-states in the region following World War I. Instructor: Y. Miller
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Examines the development of Zionism as both an ideology and a political movement which contributed to the establishment of Israel in 1948. An examination of political, cultural and social history of the state as constantly changing patterns of interaction between domestic factors and the impact of regional as well as inter-nation dynamics. Particular attention given to the relationship between United States and Israel. Instructor: Miller
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