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FALL 2024

Hebrew | Israel Studies | Judaic Studies | Religious Studies | Yiddish

HEBREW 

HEBR 101 - Hebrew I - Gen Ed: WL1

Cross listed: HEBR 501
Time: M/W 9:40-10:40 a.m.| T/R 10:05-11:05 a.m.
Instructor:  Orly Shoer
Hebrew 101 is the first semester of Modern Hebrew. The course is designed only for students with very little or no previous experience in the language. It offers a communicative introduction to Modern Hebrew language and its culture. It emphasizes all facets of the language – comprehension, speech, reading, grammar and writing. The focus of instruction is on enabling students to develop basic vocabulary and communicative skills in Modern Hebrew centering on the students' immediate surroundings and simple daily activities. By the end of the course students will be able to read and write short stories, voice their opinion, converse and use basic grammar. Prerequisites: None

HEBR 203 - Hebrew III - Gen Ed: WL3

Cross listed: HEBR 503
Time: M/W/F 10:50-11:50 a.m.
Instructor:  Orly Shoer
Hebrew 203 is the third course in the Modern Hebrew program sequence, and the last course needed to fulfill the ������ϲ�����’s foreign language requirement. It focuses on increasing students' confidence in using the language in different social settings. This course is designed to advance the Hebrew learner to the intermediate-high level by introducing complex grammatical structure forms and sentences. Grammar teaching covers three of the main verb structures. The course concentrates on improving speaking, writing, as well as, working on text analysis and comprehension skills. Prerequisites: HEBR 102 with a grade of C- or better, a placement exam, or permission of the instructor.

HEBR 311 - Texts and Conversations I - Gen Ed: WL3

Cross listed: HEBR 505
Time: M/W/F 1:10-2:10 p.m.
Instructor:  Orly Shoer
Hebrew 311 is an advanced-intermediate Hebrew language and culture course that is intended for students who wish to further develop their vocabulary building and practice all four language skills, with an emphasis on reading comprehension, grammar, syntax, composition, vocabulary building and conversation. Students will advance their Hebrew language skills through reading, discussing and writing about a variety of texts, with some emphasis placed on short articles. Prerequisites: HEBR 204 with a grade of C- or better, a placement exam, or permission of the instructor.

ISRAEL STUDIES

ISRL 120 - Intro to Israeli Literature – Gen Ed: G, H

Cross listed: JUST 120 / COLI 180P
Time: M/W/F 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
Instructor: Lior Libman
This survey course introduces students to texts (poems, short stories, novels) and themes (nation-building, conflict, gender constructions, ethnic and religious tensions) in Israeli literature from 1948 to the present. We will place literary works within their historical, cultural and political contexts and examine them to illustrate the main features of the time. Texts will be read in translation. No previous knowledge is required.The course is a Core Course for the Minor in Israel Studies, a Literature Course for the Major/Minor in Hebrew, and an Area Course in Israel Studies for the Major/Minor in Judaic Studies.

ISRL 150 – Modern Israel - Gen Ed: N 

Cross listed: JUST 150 / HIST 150
Time: T/R 11:40 AM - 01:05 PM
Instructor: Shay Rabineau
This course presents an overview of the history of Israel from its origins in the Zionist movement to the present. Key topics include: political relations and international diplomacy leading to the establishment of the state in 1948; Israel's wars with its neighbors; conflict with the Palestinians; religion and government; internal divisions between Ashkenazic and Sephardi/Mizrachi Jews; and Israeli cultural life. No previous knowledge is assumed or required. Students who had taken the course under the original number will not receive credit for re-taking the course with the new number.

ISRL 180A - Middle East, 600-Present  – Gen Ed: I,N,T,W,G

Cross listed: JUST 284G / ARAB 180C / HIST 185A
Time: M/W 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Instructor: Kent Schull
HIST 185A/ARAB 180C/ISRL 180A/JUST 284G - Middle East, 600-Present Professor Kent Schull Fall 2024 Course Description: This course traces the origins, development, and transformation of the Middle East and North Africa from the rise of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th Century CE until the 21st Century. This course will concentrate on the historical evolution of the Middle East and North Africa in terms of political, religious, cultural, economic, social, institutional aspects, and its relationship with other major faith and social traditions throughout the world. While the course is primarily chronological, the following themes will be emphasized: religious traditions and practice; inter-cultural exchanges through trade, diplomacy, migrations, and war; legal traditions; the arts; popular culture; conquest; the impact of European colonization, decolonization, and the rise of nationalism; gender constructions and the status of women; and the relationship between religion and politics. Students are assessed through their class participation, attendance, two-midterm examinations, and a final paper.

ISRL 280A – History of Jerusalem - Gen Ed: G,W

Cross listed: JUST 280Q / RELG 280B
Time: T/R 11:40 AM - 01:05 PM
Instructor: Michael Kelly 
This course explores the history of Jerusalem, as a place of memory, a site of metaphysical longing, a vision of hope and a place to overcome trauma, perhaps by reliving it. In this, students learn about the transformation of Jerusalem from a holy city for one religion into a central site of numerous religions, and interrogate the roles of empires and conquest in the formation of identities, beliefs, habits, and culture. No prerequisite knowledge of the history, religions or languages of the region is expected.

ISRL 280D - Antisemitism in History - Gen Ed: W

Cross listed: JUST 248 / HIST 285H
Time: W 4:40 PM - 07:40 PM
Instructor: Allan Arkush
This course will begin with an examination of the roots of Jew-hatred in ancient times and the Middle Ages. It will concentrate on the emergence of modern antisemitism in 19th century Europe and the ways in which it spread throughout the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. The course will focus on antisemitic ideologies as well as antisemitic mass movements. This course meets Judaic Studies major/minor survey requirement.

ISRL 327 - Israeli PalestinianConf in Lit - Gen Ed: H, O

Cross listed: JUST 380C / COLI 380C
Time: W 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Instructor: Lior Libman
The ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been represented in a wide body of Israeli and Palestinian literary works of varied genres. In this course, we will read, analyze and discuss, side by side, poems, short stories and novels by both Israeli and Palestinian writers exploring questions of homeland, exile and return, longing and belonging, Self and Other. We will examine the relationships between historical, political and literary narratives, and the ways in which images and metaphors both reflect and shape national affinities. We will also juxtapose the geo-political conflict with other core issues such as religion, ethnicity, gender and sexuality.

ISRL 380C - Holocaust Literature - Gen Ed: C, H

Cross listed: JUST 341 / COLI 380B / ENG 380M
Time: W 4:40 PM - 7:40 PM
Instructor: Paul Burch
Students in this course read literature of the Holocaust, the Churban, or the Shoah—including diaries, journals, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and works of popular culture, informed by the belief that literary responses to the Holocaust are, as the poet Paul Celan has written, in themselves "material evidence of that which-occurred." The course includes works by First Generation writers, victims and survivors of the Shoah who bear direct witness to the horror, as well as pieces by Second Generation writers—that is, children and “offspring” of Holocaust survivors who bear witness to the witnesses and to events that they did not live through but that shaped their lives. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Cross-listed with English and Comparative Literature. THIS COURSE IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.

ISRL 385Z - World War I and the Jews - Gen Ed: G

Crosslisted: JUST 380A / HIST 381N
Time: T/R 1:15 PM - 2:40 PM
Instructor: Allan Arkush
This course will investigate Jewish involvement in World War I, in all of the major belligerent countries, as well as the ways in which the war altered the Jewish world. Topics will include anti-Jewish pogroms on the Eastern Front, the rise in anti-Semitism in the ranks of the German Army, the worldwide lobbying for the Balfour Declaration, and the way in which the war reshaped Eastern European Jewry.

JUDAIC STUDIES

JUST 101 - Intro to Judaic Sudies  - Gen Ed: G,H 

Cross listed: RELG 180A
Time: T/R 10:05 AM - 11:30 AM
Instructor: Randy Friedman
This survey course, appropriate for first and second year students, engages sociology, religious studies, philosophy of religion and Biblical studies. The course is broken into four sections: 1) Race, Ethnicity, People, Nation, Religion: Are Jews and Judaism a race? An ethnicity? What is a religion? 2) Gods, Sources, Interpretations, Traditions: What is God? Who wrote the Bible? How does a scholar read the Bible? What is Biblical commentary? What is Rabbinic Judaism? 3) Faith, Suffering, and Justice: We will read through two difficult Biblical stories, the Binding of Isaac (Genesis 22), and portions of the Book of Job. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why is there suffering in the world? 4) From Exodus to Passover. We will offer a close reading of the story of the Israelite slavery and liberation from Egypyt, and explore how the holiday of Passover emerges from the story and its interpretations.

JUST 140 - Survey of American Jewish Lit - Gen Ed: C, H

Cross listed: COLI 180R 
Time: W 4:40 PM - 7:40 PM
Instructor: C. Beth Burch
Through the Golden Door traces through literature the realities and challenges of being Jewish in America from after the Civil War to the present. We will read in all genres, exploring topics such as the immigrant experience, acculturation and assimilation, anti-Semitism, generational conflicts and differences, gender issues, and continuing themes in the body of work. Offered regularly. 4 credits.

JUST 284A - The Nazi State - Gen Ed: H,N

Cross listed: HIST 2881K / GMAP 281A / GERM 281A
Time: M/W/F 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
Instructor: Harald Zils
This course examines Germany between 1933 and 1939, the organization and internal workings of the National Socialist government and administration. Topics include the permanent crisis of the Weimar Republic, the rise of the NSDAP, the Nazi takeover of power, party structures, the Gleichschaltung of administration, society, economy and media, the persecution of minorities, the situation of workers and farmers, the role of churches, etc. The course uses a broad social science approach to comprehend instruments of domination and power and to understand "how it all could happen"; the emphasis is on structures rather than events. Methodologically, the focus of this course is on the interpretation of documents and other sources. The course is taught in English. Textbook: Bendersky, A Concise History of Nazi Germany, 5th edition.

JUST 289A - Atonement, Redemption, Justice – Gen Ed: C,H

Cross listed: SCHOL 280A
Time: T/R 1:15 PM - 2:40 PM
Instructor: Randy Friedman
This course in philosophy of religion will focus on three categories in religious thought: atonement, redemption, and justice. The course will focus on the many varieties and understandings of these in a range of texts drawn mainly from the traditions of Judaism, including the Hebrew Bible, early commentaries on the Hebrew Bible, as well as medieval and modern Jewish philosophy. NO BACKGROUND or perquisites in Judaism or religious philosophy is required.

JUST 340 - American Jewish Women Writers - Gen Ed: H,O,W

Cross listed: WGSS 383A / COLI 480B / ENG 380K
Time: M 4:40-7:40 p.m.
Instructor: C. Beth Burch
This course will survey texts written in English by American Jewish women from the Civil War to the present as they move out of the kitchens and sweatshops and onto their own pages. Exploring the historical context surrounding their work, we will address chiefly the writers’ contributions in fiction and non-fiction, focusing on key issues of immigration, acculturation, assimilation, family, sexuality, religious practice, and the experience of being or becoming American. Requirements: frequent oral reading and active class participation; two formal presentations related to the background reading; written critiques of others' presentations; quizzes, final examination, and full-on class participation.

JUST 384A ​- The Beatles in Cult History​ - Gen Ed: W,N,T,I
Cross listed: HIST 387A
Time: T/R 11:40 AM - 01:05 PM
Instructor: Jonathan Karp
Though the group existed for only about 12 years (and just 7 in the public eye), the Beatles became the most commercially successful musical act of the twentieth century. But their impact went well beyond record sales. They influenced fashion, politics, racial perceptions, sexual identities, and much more. And the repercussions of their short lifespan as a working band endured long after they broke up in 1970. This class will focus on the Beatles’ glorious musical creativity, but it also aims to assess just how the “Fab Four,” emerging from working class Irish neighborhoods in Liverpool, exerted a profound and lasting effect on British and American culture, and beyond.

JUST 384B - Gender in Jewish History - Gen Ed: I,N,T,G,W

Cross listed: HIST 385J / WGSS 380J
Time: T/R 11:40 - 01:05 PM
Instructor: Dina Danon
Beginning in antiquity and continuing up until the present day, the course asks how constructions of masculinity and femininity have impacted Jewish communities, institutions, and individuals in religious, cultural, social, and economic life. The course also seeks to reconstruct the lives of Jewish women over time, and in doing so will draw on case studies from across the Jewish world (including Europe, the United States, and the Middle East). We will consult a wide range of primary sources, among them classical Jewish texts, personal correspondence, memoirs, the press, photographs, and many others. Throughout the course, we will interrogate how the analytical category of gender not only helps us tell a more comprehensive story about the Jewish past, but also challenges prevailing understandings of Jewish history.

JUST 386 A - Jews in German Literature – Gen Ed: O,H

Cross listed: ENG 380I / GERM 380E / COLI 380I
Time:  M/W 1:10 PM - 2:35 PM
Instructor: Harald Zils                  
This course examines the complex interplay between Jewish identity and German culture from the Enlightenment through the 21st century. It considers how Jewish figures have been represented in various literary genres and periods, and how Jewish writers have shaped the German literary landscape. We will analyze texts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Heinrich Heine, Else Lasker-Schüler, and contemporary authors. The course includes critical reading of primary texts alongside secondary scholarly analyses, fostering an understanding of the historical and cultural dynamics that influenced the literary depiction of Jews in Germany. We will focus on literary responses to significant historical events, including Emancipation, the rise of antisemitism, the Holocaust, and the re-unification of Germany. Course taught in English.

JUST  389B - Public Opinion – Gen Ed: N

Cross listed: PLSC 340
Time: M/W  9:25 AM - 10:50 AM
Instructor: Jonathan Krasno 
Examines the nature and dynamics of public opinion in American politics with a focus on the major trends in public opinion since World War II. Students examine different approaches to measuring and understanding what drives public opinion. Moreover, they focus on the effects of public opinion on the political process, including public policy and elections.

JUST 484B -Levinas and Phenomenology – Gen Ed: C,H

Cross listed: PHIL 580C / PHIL 480P / COLI 574Z
Time: T/R 11:40-1:05 PM             
Instructor: Randy Friedman
This reading intensive seminar will work through the central texts in ethical thought and philosophy of religion of the French Jewish Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas’s peers included Buber, Rosenzweig, Heidegger, and Derrida. Levinas insists that ethics and an orientation toward the other are fundamental to being human. We will work to understand the philosophical work behind this insistence, and the religious and philosophical consequences of it. As we read through Levinas, we will explore how questions of transcendence, subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and temporality give way to an ethical philosophy built on notions of alterity and responsibility. We will read Levinas’s major works, Time and the Other, Totality and Infinity, and Otherwise than Being, as well as a range of his shorter writings in philosophy and Jewish thought, and much secondary literature on Levinas. The course will allow students to frame their reading of Levinas in the context of their own interests. These might include: modern Jewish thought, philosophy of religion, existentialism, literary theory, Continental philosophy, or other areas of interest.

JUST 484D - Socialism and the Jews

Cross listed: HIST 485M      
Time: T/R 10:05-11:30 AM
Instructor: Jonathan Karp
The history of socialism has intersected in numerous and at times contradictory ways with Jewish life. On the one hand, Jews' stereotypical identification with commerce, business, and capitalism has made them targets of left-wing antisemitism. On the other, Jews participated disproportionately in the socialist movements of different countries, and individual (if sometimes non-identifying) Jews like Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky were among the leaders and major theorists of socialist movements. Was there something, therefore, in Judaism as a religion or in the historical Jewish experience that has shaped this affinity between Jews and socialism? This class will examine key aspects of such connections and paradoxes by looking at the Jewish components of socialist movements in Europe, the United States, and the modern State of Israel.

JUST 490 - Holocaust in Global Perspect - Gen Ed: C,G,N,T

Cross listed: HIST 486D
Time: T/R 2:50 PM - 4:15 PM
Instructor: Dina Danon
This course positions the Holocaust not solely as a European story but a global one with implications for Jewish communities across the world. In addition to the experiences of central and eastern European Jewries, the course will also emphasize the experiences of Jewish communities in the Sephardi heartland of the eastern Mediterranean as well in North Africa and Middle East. The course will then study how the Holocaust has been represented in various contexts, most notably the United States and Israel. As an upper-level seminar, the course will consider a diversity of historiographical issues, among them questions of agency, causation, collaboration, and resistance, methodological approaches such as micro-history, gender history, oral history, public history, and fields of inquiry such as postcolonial and gender studies.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

RELG 101 - Religions of the World - Gen Ed: G, H

Cross listed: JUST 100 / AFST 180E / ANTH 180C
Time: M/W/F 2:20 PM - 3:20 PM
Instructor: Douglas Jones
What does it mean to study various religions from an academic perspective? How do we, as outsiders at a public university, discuss different traditions responsibly? Answering questions like these and developing our skills as scholars of religion is of no small importance in an increasingly global society. This class will take a thematic approach to a number of traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Prominent themes include the history of Religious Studies as a discipline, religion and popular culture, religion and violence, the history of utopian thought, and the status of new and controversial movements across the globe.

RELG 120 - Protestant Christianity - Gen Ed: C,H,T

Cross listed:
Time: M/W/F 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
Instructor: Douglas Jones
This course focuses on the religious origins of Protestantism, the rise of Protestantism in the sixteenth century, and the evolution of Protestantism in America. Moving beyond purely doctrinal formulations of the faith, we examine a dizzying variety of "protestantisms," from the rival confessional identities of early-modern Germany, Switzerland, England, and Scotland to the religious pluralism that marks our modern world. Some topics include Protestant biblical interpretation, the art of the sermon, the rise of both Protestant denominations and sectarian movements, Evangelical politics in the 21st century, and online religion.

RELG 180C - Islam: Texts and Contexts - Gen Ed: W,G,H

Cross listed: AFST 180L / COLI 180C / HIST 181D / MDVL 180P / ARAB 150
Time: T/R 08:30 AM - 09:55 AM
Instructor: Omid Ghaemmaghami

Did you know that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and is expected to be the world’s largest religion soon? Did you know that approximately 1/3 of enslaved Africans in what came to be the United States came from predominantly Islamic parts of West Africa? Did you know that “Islam”, usually translated as “peace” and “submission,” more correctly means “commitment”? This course introduces students to religious currents in the Islamic world, past and present. We will begin by looking at the origins of Islam, and placing the chief features of its principles, practices, and beliefs in their historical context. In an attempt to explore the enduring ties that bind the myriad interpretations of Islam across time and space to their universal foundations, each week will be devoted to a different theme. Topics include the origins of Islam; the life of the Prophet Muḥammad; major themes of the Quran; Tradition (Ḥadīth) in the making; the Imamate in Shīʿī Islam; Sufism and the aesthetics of Islamic mysticism; Islamic messianism; the Islamic world in the 19th century; Islam in America: From Enslaved Africans to Malcolm X and Dave Chappelle; and Islam in ������ϲ�����. This course has no prerequisites, and no prior knowledge of Islam or Arabic is required or will be assumed by the instructor.

RELG 180D - Intro to African Religion - Gen Ed: H,W

Cross listed: SOC 180A / ANTH 280L / AFST 171
Time: T/R 10:05-11:30 AM
Instructor: Anthony Ephirim-Donoker
E. A. Wallis Budge defined African religion as “the worship of the souls of the dead, commonly called Ancestor Worship.” Also, Diodorus, a Greek historian of the 1st Century BCE, stated that blacks or Ethiopians, “were the first of all men, and the proofs of this statement, they say, are manifest. For that they did not come into their land as immigrants from abroad but were natives of it, and so justly bear the name of ‘autochthones’ is, they maintain, conceded by practically all men…. And they [i.e., the Greek historians relied on by Diodorus] say that they [i.e., the black peoples] were the first to be taught to honor the gods and to hold sacrifices and processions and festivals and other rites by which men honor the deity; and that in consequence their piety has been published abroad among all men, and it is generally held that the sacrifices practiced among the Ethiopians [i.e., the black peoples] are those which are the most pleasing to heaven.” Thus, students are introduced to the nature and phenomenon of African religion, conceptions of God and gods and goddesses, ancestors and ancestor worship, elders, sacrifices and symbols, and rituals that offer meaning to the lives of Africans.

RELG 280A – The Bible and Its Interpretations - Gen Ed: G,N,W

Cross listed: JUST 201 / HIST 285E
Time: T/R 1:15 PM - 2:40 PM
Instructor: Michael Kelly
This course offers an introduction to Jewish history from the Bible to the end of the Middle Ages. It surveys some of the major issues that defined Judaism, including the nature and development of biblical texts; the effort of small Jewish states in the age of great ancient empires; the impact of (Greek culture) Hellenism on Judaism and the rise of Christianity from it; the emergence of the Diaspora; and Jewish life under and interaction with medieval Islam and Christendom. The course's two major themes are: 1) the evolution and development of Judaism, and 2) the shifting character of Jewish identity and peoplehood. No previous knowledge of Jewish history and religion is required or assumed. This course satisfies the core and survey requirements for Judaic Studies majors and minors.

RELG 380E - Countercultural Religion - Gen Ed: H,W

Cross listed: 
Time: T/R 10:05 - 11:30 AM
Instructor: Douglas Jones
From the Family of Love to the Family International and from Diggers in 1640s England to Diggers in 1960s San Francisco, this course explores countercultural and utopian religious communities from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries in a transatlantic context. Topics include the new age movement, the status of women in new religious movements, Satanism and political action, progressive millennialism and socialist religion, debates over the use of psychedelics, minority religions in Upstate New York, and the circulation of underground religious literature.

RELG 480A - Japanese Ghosts & Monsters – Gen Ed: A,C,N

Cross listed: AAAS 481T
Time: T/R 8:30 AM - 9:55 AM
Instructor: Kristina Buhrman
From bird-men and sentient tea kettles to Pokemon, Japanese visual and literary culture is teeming with strange and fantastic creatures. This seminar introduces students to the variety of oral, written, and particularly visual sources for Japanese views of the fantastical. We will cover the foundations of the study of folklore, the history of the field in Japan, and how the otherworldly and monstrous was depicted in medieval, early modern, and modern Japan. Sources encountered in class include visual culture, ethnographic description, and works of literary fiction. Students will learn about the interaction between elite and popular culture, and between popular culture and national identity. After a guided introduction to the analysis of folklore, students will undertake their own original research project on Japanese ghosts and monsters, and produce a paper describing an aspect of early modern or modern Japanese culture reflected in the Japanese fantastical using ethnographic or folklore methodologies.

YIDDISH 

Yiddish I - YIDD 101 - Gen Ed: G,O,WL1

Cross listed: JUST 180A/ GERM 180C / RUSS 180A / YIDD 501 
Time: M/W/F 1:10-2:10 PM
Instructor: Gina Glasman
Yiddish 101 is an introductory language class: students learn simple conversational Yiddish and how to read and write, beginning with the Yiddish alphabet. By the end of the Fall semester students will have composed their own short stories, gained a repertoire of Yiddish song, put together a compendium of commonly used expressions from this famously expressive language and finally, will have learnt about aspects of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi culture, past and present.

Living in a Material World I - YIDD 180A - Gen Ed: J,N

Cross listed: JUST 180C / HIST 180B 
Time: T/R 11:40 AM - 01:05 PM
Instructor: Gina Glasman
This class will be dedicated to a single question: how can we use the artefacts of everyday life to better understand the history of an immigrant metropolis? To explore this question, we will focus on a specific city—New York—and a particular cultural vehicle, museums—institutions rooted in the notion that “objects” can speak! In the Spring semester, students will create their own digital exhibit, using the themes, approaches and concepts we have explored together in class. Students can choose to focus their research on any community within the complex urban fabric of either past or present-day New York City. To help us with this task, we will divide our study into several parts. We will begin with the earliest efforts by historians—often Marxist inflected - to chart the lives of “everyday people.” This approach was sometimes twinned with a new interest in the material world. From there, we will take a look at recent histories of the immigrant city, with a focus on Jewish, or Yiddish immigrant New York in the early twentieth century. Here too, we will find a focus on ordinary things, as part of the investigation of the urban landscape—from a discarded candy wrapper in the street, to the latest cut in city fashion. Recorded memory - or oral history - is also key to this kind of analysis, as a way to access the culture of everyday life. Finally, students will research, design and mount a digital exhibit of their own creation, based on the questions addressed in class. In preparation for this project, we will also consider the uses of material culture in the work of social history museums, as well as comparable initiatives in the fields of anthropology and public archaeology.

YIDD 351 - Jewish New York - Gen Ed: D,T,W,H

Cross listed: JUST 351 / HIST 380B
Time: T/R 4:25 - 5:50 PM
Instructor: Gina Glasman
From Pogroms to the Promised City - An exploration of why Eastern European Jews came to New York in the era of mass migration and what they made of city life once they arrived. Jewish New York is a study in both urban and immigrant history, examining how a newly arrived society responded to America's signature metropolis in an urban moment of extraordinary dynamism.