JWST 306 - Germans and Jews

Next Offered: 2011-2012
Semester Offered: First Semester
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; on the creativity, tensions, hopes of that stance and its resonance 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 HIST 306