HIST 27526 - Jews, Judaism, and Jew Haters

Course Credit: 1
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JEWS, JUDAISM, AND JEW HATERS IN THE MODERN WORLD This course provides the essential conceptual framework for understanding Zionism, the Holocause, and the bizarre anti-Jewish tropes of today’s alt-right and progressive left. It analyzes the dynamics of the Jews’ encounter with modernity: how negotiating that encounter compelled Jews to redefine themselves, or to be redefined by the larger society; how that redefinition led to both citzenship and persecution; and how it led to the emergence of modern religious streams of Judaism, to forms of Jewish political and cultural nationalism, and to a distinctly modern from of Jew-hatred called antisemitism. [GE, HSS]