RELIGION 231

MODERN JUDAISMS

(MWF 9:30-10:20; Baker 14)

NOTE: All the readings below refer to the Section and Selection number of the readings in Paul Mendes-Flohr & Jehuda Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History; Second Edition.

I. INTRODUCING CLASSICAL JUDAISM

• August 28: Introduction to the Course
• Aug 30-Sept. 1: The Roots: Bible, Temple and Priests
  
• September 4-8: Classical Judaism: What is Talmud and Who are the Rabbis?
• Click for more information on the Talmud

 

II. ENLIGHTENMENT AND EMANCIPATION

• September 11-15: The Problem of Modernity: To Ghetto or Not to Ghetto
• I: 4, 6
• I: 8-11
• III: 1-4; 10-14
• More about the Industrial Revolution
  
  
• September18-22: First Response: Reform Judaism
• IV: 1-4
• IV: 6-8
• IV: 9-12

• September 25-29: Counter-Response: Orthodoxy and Political Anti-Semitism
• IV:132-15
• Learn about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
• VII: 1-4, 1, 12

III. THE EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA

• October 2-6: The First Judaism of the United States: 19th Century German Reform
• IX: 11, 14, 15
• Jews in the Civil War
• Jews in the Wild West

• October 9-13: Remaking the Jewish Community: The East Europeans Are Coming (1880 - )!!
• IX: 17-19
• IX: 20-24

• October 16-27: Figuring out How to be an American Jew in the 20th Century
• IX: 26,28
• [October 23 = FALL BREAK]
• VII: 26; IX:36-39

IV. ZIONISM AND ISRAEL

• October 30 - Nov. 3: Why and How Modern Zionism Began
• X:1
• X: 14, 15, 18, 19, 23
• X: 2-5, 11
• Here's a history of Zionism website

 

• November 6-10: Zionism and the Holocaust
• X: 12, 14, 16
• IX: 30-31
• XI: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8
• For more on the Holocaust

• November 13-17: 1940's - 1990's: Israel From the Holocaust to Today
• XI: 21, 22, 24, 25, 36
• X:40-41
• Israeli Government Homepage
• Catch the latest news from Israel

• November 20- 24: What's Going On in Israel Today
• November 24 = THANKSGIVING BREAK

• V. THE JEWISH WORLD TODAY: UNDERSTANDING THE NEWS

• November 27 - Dec. 1: How Are American Jews Divided and Organized?
• IX: 32-34
• VIII: 10-12
• Check sites for Reform , Conservative, Reconstructionist, Orthodox, Lubavitsch Hasidic Judaism

• December 4-8: What's Going On in American Judaism Today
• X: 42-43

December 18: FINAL DUE AT 9:00 am in the morning