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Introduction to Israeli and Palestinian culture, politics, and society and the central historical events of the Israel/Palestinian conflict. From early Zionist settlement in Palestine in the late nineteenth century and concluding with the 'Peace Process' of the 1990s, the second Palestinian uprising (Intifada), and the Israeli military reoccupation of the Palestinian territories. Ethics of both the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian resistance struggles against occupation. Instructor: Stein
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Key texts (literary, philosophical, and political) from the Enlightenment (18th cent.); periods of emancipation and assimilation, and rising political anti-Semitism (19th cent.); as well as Weimar, Nazi, and postwar periods (20th cent). Authors include Moses Mendelssohn, Lessing, Franzos, Droste-Hülshoff, Marx, Schnitzler, as well as contemporaries such as Korn, Broder, and Biller. Taught in English. Instructor: Donahue
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Overview of German Jewish history and culture, sampling documents, literature, and art from the Enlightenment to the present day. Excursions to Berlin sites, including the Berlin Jewish Museum, Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and the Grünewald Deportation Memorial. Meetings with Jewish cultural leaders and attendance at a service at one of the Berlin synagogues. Taught in English only in the Duke Summer in Berlin program. Instructor: Donahue
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The ways in which official German culture comes to terms with its Nazi past. Background reading in history and politics; primary focus on films, dramas, novels, and poetry, as well as public memorials, monuments, and museums. Authors treated include: Wolfgang Borchert, Rolf Hochhuth, Peter Weiss, Ruth Klüger. Taught in English. Instructor: Donahue
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Analyzes, compares, and assesses representations of Polish Christians and Polish Jews -- their life experiences, interactions, shared and separate fates -- in documentaries and fiction films made in Poland from the 1930s to the present day. Includes films by Wajda, Polanski, Munk, Kieslowski; also a 2008 documentary about pre-World War II Christian-Jewish relations in Poland by Jolanta Dylewska. All films screened with English subtitles. Instructor: Holmgren
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Topics differ by section. Instructor: Staff
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Internship: Hospital-Jewish Approaches to Visiting the Sick. The Jewish practice of bikkur holim (visiting the sick) examined in readings and hospital visits with clinical and pastoral supervision. Readings and discussions focusing on: historical, ritual and ethical aspects of comforting the ill. Research paper required. Required participation in service-learning. Instructor: Tulsky
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Internship: Museum-Curating Jewish Art and Artifacts. History of Jewish Museums; organizing and installing of exhibits; codicology; preservation and cataloguing; theoretical approaches to effective practices; and methodological diversity reflecting cultural values. Major research paper required. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Meyers
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Topics vary from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff
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Seminar version of Jewish Studies 197. Instructor: Staff
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