HIST 551

Spring 2018 All Classes

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Prob European Hist Since 1789

Credit: 4 hours.

Topics will be listed in the department's course guide at http://history.illinois.edu.

May be repeated in the same or subsequent terms as topics vary.

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HIST 551 class schedule data for spring 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39606	Discussion/ Recitation	A	12:30PM -2:20PM	T	318 Gregory Hall	Avrutin, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Section Info: Topic: This course is an interdisciplinary graduate-level introduction to the encounter between Jews and their neighbors. It focuses on the significations and transformations of Jewishness through a wide range of recent writings by historians and cultural theorists. We will consider the pre-modern roots of the position of Judaism and Jews in Christian thought and society, but will more closely focus on the modern re-articulation of this relationship in the aftermath of the Enlightenment. Key themes will include the varied pathways of Jewish modernization, the emergence of modern Jewish political, cultural and religious formations, constructions of Jewish otherness, everyday neighborly relations, and both Jewish and non-Jewish responses to the Holocaust. Students are required to lead two seminars. The writing assignments include on short response paper and a longer critical review essay or an annotated bibliography project. The bibliography project is designed to help students prepar for preliminary examinations and/or begin preliminary background reading for a future, long-term research project. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.