RELI 392
Women in Jewish History
Winter (year not explicitly stated) Not stated · Women and Jewish History: The Modern Period
Topics
- Jewish women and historical method
- Immigration to North America
- Family and identity
- Volunteer organizations
- Education
- Work and labour organizing
- Canadian Jewish women
- Gender and Holocaust history
- Zionism
- Feminism and religious activism
Readings
- Pamela Nadell (ed.), American Jewish History: A Reader. NYU Press, 2003.
- Course pack.
- H. M. Sachar, A History of the Jews in America.
- Brym, Shaffir and Weinfeld, The Jews in Canada.
- J. Sarna, American Judaism.
- J. Neusner, Understanding American Judaism.
- R. Klein and F. Dimant (eds.), From Immigration to Integration.
- Michael Brown, “Canada: From Outlaw to Supreme Court Justice, 1738–2005,” Jewish Women’s Archive encyclopedia.
- Pamela Nadell, “On Their Own Terms: America’s Jewish Women, 1954–2004,” American Jewish History (2003).
- Assigned films: Lea Roback; Half the Kingdom.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Syllabus or course outline ↗Winter (year not explicitly stated) Not stated
- Historical public outline has a January–April schedule but no explicit course year. File name contains outline15; that is not treated as proof of the teaching year. Background books are explicitly optional, and editions are not stated.