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Academic Year 2002/2003
American Jewish History
HIST 332 SP
This course will begin with a survey text on the history of Jews in the U.S. from the 17th century to recent times and a survey of Jews in France since the Revolution of 1789 for comparison. We will then concentrate on
several aspects of the subject--immigrations, political radicalism, intellectuals, and Zionism.
MAJOR READINGS
(tentative list)
Arthur Hertzberg, THE JEWS IN AMERICA: FOUR CENTURIES OF AN UNEASY ENCOUNTER: A HISTORY
Paula E. Hyman, THE JEWS OF MODERN FRANCE
David A. Hollinger, SCIENCE, JEWS, AND SECULAR CULTURE: STUDIES
IN MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Irving Howe, SELECTED WRITINGS, 1950-90
Excerpts from ESSENTIAL PAPERS ON JEWS AND THE LEFT, ed. Ezra Mendelsohn
Irving Howe, THE WORLD OF OUR FATHERS
Excerpts from ESSENTIAL PAPERS ON
ZIONISM, ed. Jehuda Reinhart and
Anita Shapiro
Emma Goldman, LIVING MY LIFE
Larry Sloman, STEAL THIS DREAM
Aaron Berman, NAZISM, THE JEWS AND AMERICAN ZIONISM, 1933-1948
Michael Brown, THE ISRAELI-AMERICAN CONNECTION: ITS ROOTS IN THE
YISHOV, 1914-1945
Norman Podhoretz,
EX-FRIENDS
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Write three research essays, each approximately 8-15 pp, weekly 1-2 pp. papers, and help lead discussions.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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