JWST 250 - Jewish Diasporas: Ukraine, Moscow, Jerusalem, New York

Examines the evolution of East European Jewry at the turn of the twentieth century, as a community with a single way of life finds itself in the vastly different environments of immigrant New York, Ottoman-era Palestine, and Soviet Russia. What stays the same and what changes? What is the fate of Marxist-inspired Jews in Palestine and in Soviet Russia? What happened, and what did they think as it happened? The course starts in the 1880s and ends in 1953 (the end of World War II, the formation of the State of Israel, the death of Stalin). The group we are studying is both a historical community, with roots going back 3,000 years, and a community of practice.

Credits: 1.0
Crosslisted:

CORE C143

Corequisite: None
Prerequisites: None
Class Restriction: No Junior, No Senior
Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression
Core Component: None

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