CRN 76930: Modern Judaism: Religion, Culture, Politics
CRN 76930:Date: Tuesdays/Thursdays Time: 2 - 3:20 PMLocation: TBDInstructor: Eli RosenblattWhat is the relation of Judaism and the individual Jew to the modern world? Is Judaism a religion, a nationality, an ethnicity, or a combination of these? This course explores various answers to these questions by examining various historical and cultural formations of Jewish identity in Europe, the Americas/Caribbean, Asia, and Africa from the 18th century to the present, and by engaging particular issues, such as Judaism's relation to race, technology, the environment, gender, sexuality,...