AP/HREQ 4040 6.00
Jewish Diasporas
This course uses a critical human rights approach to examine Jewish communities in a variety of historical and contemporary settings, including immigration experience, family life, culture and identity.
This course covers theoretical and historical topics about Jewish groups in the diaspora as being both an international and a religious entity, and not just exclusively one or the other. There are many ethnic groups within the Jewish community. The course will explore how the Jewish community serves as a source of reference of a person’s life and how the norms of the group is transferred from generation to generation The concepts of Jewishness implied is not an unchanging “given;” but looks at the web of relationships within a particular cultural context. The course will explore the survival of Jews as an ethnic community has derived from socialization within the community about Jewish religious and cultural qualities and from external anti-Semitism. We will look at debates about Jewish identity into political and juridical issues, which continue to be fought over, both in Israel and in the Diaspora.
Course Credit Exclusion: AP/MIST 4040 6.00
Prerequisites: 78 credits or permission from the Undergraduate Program Director.