JS 501

Spring 2025 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 21-May 7

Grad Intro to Jewish Culture

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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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JS 501 class schedule data for spring 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	52684	Discussion/ Recitation	A	11:00AM -1:00PM	W	Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Strakhova, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Section Info: Topic: What is a history of emotions? How does the environment shape history? Can smell serve as a historical source? Can you write a contemporary history of a place where Jews no longer live and still present a Jewish perspective? “Historical Methods in Jewish Studies” covers these and many more research methodologies, concepts, and categories of analysis, covering territories from the Far East to the United States and from South Africa to Great Britain. Although the main focus is Jewish history and culture, the course will be of interest to all graduate students in humanities preparing to work on their dissertations. Restriction(s): Not intended for Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.