Modern Judaism

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This course examines the historical, religious, intellectual and cultural life of Jewish peoples from the nineteenth-century European Hasklah (Jewish Enlightenment) to the global diaspora and the contemporary State of Israel. Key themes that are explored in this class include migration and return, anti-Semitism and the Shoah (Holocaust), nationalism, feminism, secular Judaism, and religious change.