Topics in Judaism (339-0-21)

Topic

Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism

Instructors

Barry Wimpfheimer
847 4912618
Crowe Hall, 1860 Campus Drive, 4-140

Meeting Info

University Hall 318: Tues, Thurs 9:30AM - 10:50AM

Overview of class

For over two thousand years, Jews have engendered antagonism and hatred from some of their neighbors and erstwhile friends. This course will overview the history of anti-Jewish ideologies and episodes seeking to taxonomize and analyze this metahistorical phenomenon. The course will engage both primary and secondary sources covering over two millennia of world history while attending to diversity in time, place, political reality, and majority religion. Much of the course will be devoted to theorizing anti-Judaism and antisemitism, engaging different paradigms that look to history, theology, psychoanalysis, race and power to consider and reconsider this long-lasting set of hatreds.

Learning Objectives

• Achieving a broad understanding of Jewish and world history
• Understanding antisemitism as a complex ideology
• Understanding contemporary issues through a complex lens informed by a rich and diverse understanding of antisemitism and its long history

Teaching Method

Class Materials (Required)

tbd.

Class Attributes

Ethical and Evaluative Thinking Foundational Disci
Ethics & Values Distro Area

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Reserved for Religion Majors & Minors, Jewish Studies Minors