HIST 15N – Modern Jewish Politics: Between Power and Powerlessness

HIST 15N – Modern Jewish Politics: Between Power and Powerlessness

Semester: Spring
Offered: 2023
Instructor: Scott Ury
Meeting Time: M 3:45pm-5:45pm

This undergraduate seminar will examine the political strategies that different Jewish individuals adopted and implemented as members of minority communities across the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  The seminar will begin by looking at traditional means of political interaction in early modern times, continue by examining the response of different Jewish communities to liberal politics, and move on with an analysis of modern means of political thinking, organization and action, in particular nationalism, socialism, orthodoxy, and internationalism. While many of the cases studied will focus on Central and Eastern Europe, developments in North America and Israel/Palestine will also be addressed.

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