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Sophomore Seminar: American Jewry Since the 1880s
HIST267 SP
An overview of the history of Jews in the United States since the great migration of the late 19th century. Many aspects of the story will be considered, including the causes of migration, the intense drive to
Americanize, socialism and trade unionism,
the nature of anti-Semitism, changing conceptions of Judaism, response to Nazism, and Zionism.
MAJOR READINGS
Mary Antin, THE PROMISED LAND (1912) Irving Howe, WORLD OF OUR FATHERS (1976) Mordecai M. Kaplan, JUDAISM AS A CIVILIZATION: TOWARD A RECONSTRUCTION OF AMERICAN-JEWISH LIFE (1934) Dan A. Oren, JOINING THE CLUB: A
HISTORY OF JEWS AND YALE (1985)
Jack Salzman and Cornell West, STRUGGLES IN THE PROMISED LAND: A HISTORY OF BLACK-JEWISH RELATIONS IN THE U.S. Other titles as well plus many primary documents.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
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:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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