REL-26013 credit hours
Modern Judaism
Religion and Culture · 3 hrs Lecture
No prerequisites listed, you can take this course without prior coursework.
Description
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.
Lecture
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