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HISTORY 385A: Core in Jewish History, 17th-19th Centuries

Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Rodrigue, A. (PI)

HISTORY 385B: Core in Jewish History, 20th Century

Terms: Win | Units: 4-5

HISTORY 385K: History of Modern Antisemitism (HISTORY 285K)

Focus is on Europe. Topics include: origins of modern antisemitism and difference from theological forms of hatred, differences in antisemitic patterns in eastern central and western Europe; intellectual origins of modern racism, the question of Jewish self-hatred and internalization of antisemitic stereotypes; connections between philo-semitism and antisemitism; contemporary patterns of antisemitism. Emphasis is on cultural and intellectual history as well as a discussion of Jews' major ideological, political, and social responses to antisemitism.
Instructors: Dubnov, A. (PI)

HISTORY 385K: History of Modern Antisemitism: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

The articulations of anti-Jewish hatred from the advent of Jewish emancipation in Europe. The legacy of premodern Christian demonization and its modern protean transformations as they penetrated and annexed new currents of ideology, notions of identity (social, national, racial), taste, and aesthetics. A history of ideas, representations, and stereotypes, and their relation to historical experience, action, and mobilization. Europe is the focus; case studies also include the Middle East and elsewhere.

HISTORY 386: Jews among Muslims

The history of Jewish communities in the lands of Islam and their relations with the surrounding Muslim populations from the time of Muhammad to the 20th century. Topics: the place of Jews in Muslim societies, Jewish communal life, variation in the experience of communities in different Muslim lands, the impact of the West in the Modern period, the rise of nationalisms, and the end of Jewish life in Muslim countries.
Last offered: Winter 2008

HISTORY 387C: Zionism and Its Critics (HISTORY 287C)

Zionism from its genesis in the 1880s up until the establishment of the state of Israel in May, 1948, exploring the historical, ideological and political dimensions of Zionism. Topics include: the emergence of Zionist ideology in connection to and as a response to challenges of modernity; emancipation; Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment); other national and ideological movements of the period; the ideological crystallization of the movement; and the immigration waves to Palestine.
Instructors: Dubnov, A. (PI)

HISTORY 387D: Tel Aviv: Site, Symbol, City (HISTORY 287D)

Tel Aviv, the first Israeli city, from a cultural history perspective combining high and low cultural texts. Topics include: the utopian origins behind the establishment of Tel Aviv in Zionist texts; artists, poets, and writers in Tel Aviv's early years; as the capital of Bauhaus architecture; the emergence of Israeli pop culture in Tel Aviv of the late 60s and 70s; as the site of the Israeli Zionist and post-Zionist intellectuals. Sources include art, cinema, and literature.
Instructors: Dubnov, A. (PI)

HISTORY 387E: Jewish Intellectuals and Modernity (HISTORY 287E)

Intellectual responses of Jewish thinkers to the age of extremes. Readings include a wide assemblage of twentieth-century thinkers, such as Theodor Adorno, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Isaac Deutscher, Hans Kohn, Lionel Trilling, Judith Shklar, George Steiner, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. From these readings, an analysis of enlightenment, nationalism and socialism; political response to totalitarian ideologies, and the extent to which the Jewishness of these political thinkers and philosophers notify their writings.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Dubnov, A. (PI)

HISTORY 388: Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (HISTORY 288, IPS 388, JEWISHST 288, JEWISHST 388)

1882 to the present. Comparison of representative expressions of competing historical interpretations. U.S. policy towards the conflict since 1948. (Beinin)
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Beinin, J. (PI)

HISTORY 391B: The City in Imperial China (HISTORY 291B)

The evolution of cities in the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hinterlands, and the contrast between imperial capitals and other cities. Comparative cases from European history. Readings include primary and secondary sources, and visual materials.
Last offered: Winter 2008
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