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HIST 306 - Seminar: Germans and Jews


Next Offered: 2013-2014
Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
Credits (Range): 3-4 hours
Attribute: 3-4SS, WR, CD
Focuses on cultural hybridity: how Jews in Germany emerged from mental and cultural as well as physical ghettos and constructed an identity that was both Jewish and German; the creativity, tensions, hopes of that stance; its resonance and rejection in larger German society. Studies German policies and attitudes to Jews; trends in German Jewish society, family and culture; attitudes to east European Jews; German Jew-hatred and Jewish responses; how the Jewish case sheds light on modern German history.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: S. Magnus
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 306.



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