HIST 1017 – Jews in the Modern World
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2023
Instructor: Derek Penslar
Meeting Time: T Th 10:30am – 11:45am
Jews are members of a world civilization that has constantly interacted with, shaped, and been shaped by Christian and Muslim civilizations. This survey of Jewish history over the past three centuries explores Jewish religious and social life and interactions with the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and North America. We will examine the impact of modernity on Jewish society, the transformation of Judaism and the formation of secular Jewish culture, continuity and rupture between older forms of antisemitism and the Holocaust, modern Jewish political movements, and the role of the state of Israel in contemporary Jewish life.
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