JWST 341 - Seminar: Defining Jewishness: Boundary Drawing in Jewish History

Next Offered: 2011-2012
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 SS, CD, WR
Explores ways that lines defining Jewishness were drawn from late antiquity to modernity, and shifting definitions of Jewishness in different times and places. Examines group and individual cases; interaction between self-identification and boundary drawing by others about Jews. Cases include: early Jesus-followers; crytpo- and normative Jews under Inquisition persecution in medieval and early modern Europe; assimilating modern Jews; secular, ethnic, and nationalist Jewishness; conversion; Jews off the usual Jewish map: Africa, South America, Asia.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: S. Magnus
Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with Hist 341