JS 501
Spring 2010 Part of Term 1
Jan 19-May 5
Credit: 4 hours.
Interdisciplinary graduate-level introduction to the study of Jewish culture and society. Focuses on the significations of Jewishness in modern history through a wide range of recent writings by historians, anthropologists, philosophers and cultural theorists. Key themes will include the relationship of Judaism to the other monotheistic religions, the varied pathways of Jewish modernization, the construction of Jewish Otherness in Europe and beyond, and responses to the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel.
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52684
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Discussion/
Recitation |
A
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5:30PM
-7:20PM
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T
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English Building
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Avrutin, E
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