The core course is The Spirit of Secularism: Jewish Cultures in a Secular Age and the other courses are: The Jews of Latin America, 1500-2000, Role of Jews in Film and Television, American Jewish Thought, and Jewish Civilization: Encounter with Great World Cultures.
The Spirit of Secularism: Jewish Cultures in a Secular Age
This course examines the emergence of distinct forms of Jewish
culture in the modern age that challenge or depart from traditional
Jewish sources and authority. The subject is the rise of a secular
Jewish culture, or more accurately, series of secular Jewish cultures
over the past two centuries. It begins with a discussion of key
definitional questions: What is secularity? Can we trace roots of a
secular impulse Jewish culture prior to modern times? The course will
explore diverse cultural expressions beginning in early modern times
and extending up to the present. In the process, students will take
note of the substantial degree of intellectual and cultural creativity
produced by modern Jews as they have sought to refashion their
identities beyond traditional religious categories.
Course Readings:
Oz Almog, The Sabra
David Biale (ed.), Cultures of the Jews
Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World
Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century
Course Outline
1. Introduction: What is Secularity?
2. Is There a Pre-Modern Secular Judaism? The Hellenistic Case
1. Erich S. Gruen, “Hellenistic Judaism,” in Cultures of the Jews, A New History, ed. David Biale
2. Philo of Alexandria, Sections from “On the Life of Moses,” in:
www.earlyjewishwritings.com/text/philo/book24.html
3. Reason and Faith in Medieval Jewish Thought
1. Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed
4. The Spinozistic Challenge to Rabbinic Authority in Early Modern Times
1. Baruch Spinoza, Political-Theological Treatise
2. Steven Smith, “The Critic of the Scripture,” in Spinoza, Liberalism and the Question of Jewish Identity
5. Enlightenment and the Jews
1. Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World
2. Moses Mendelssohn, Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism
6. Redefining Women’s Roles
1. Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen, The Life of a Jewess
2. Marion Kaplan, The Making of the Jewish Middle Class
7. Between Science and Art: Toward a New Jewish Identity
1. Heinrich Heine, “A Ticket of Admission to European Culture,” The Jew in the Modern
World
2. Michael A. Meyer, The Origins of the Modern Jew
8. Denominational Division: Mediating Tradition and Modernity
1. Mendes-Flohr/Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World
9. The Rise of Modern Jewish Literature
1. Sholem Aleichem, “Chava,” in Classic Yiddish Stories
2. Shmuel Yosef Agnon, “From Lodging to Lodging,” Twenty-One Stories
3. Additional readings from Mendele Mokher Seforim and Y. L. Peretz.
10. L. A. Jewry Then and Now (conference sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies at the UCLA Faculty Center)
11. Jewish Culture and the Idea of Nationalism
1. M. J. Berdyczewski, The Zionist Idea
2. Ahad Ha-am, The Zionist Idea
3. Theodor Herzl, Diaries
4. Lucy Dawidowicz, The Golden Tradition
12. Jewish Urban Culture and Secular Identity
1. Franz Kafka, “Before the Law,” in The Complete Short Stories
2. Kafka, “My Father’s Bourgeois Judaism,” in Mendes-Flohr/Reinharz, The Jew in the
Modern World
3. Peter Gay, A Godless Jew: Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis
13. Immigration and Secular Culture in New York
1. Anna Yezierska, The Breadgivers
2. Abraham Cahan, The Jew in the Modern World
3. Yiddish periodicals including the Forverts and Der Tog
14. The Non-Jewish Jew
1. Isaac Deutscher, The Non-Jewish Jew
2. Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century
www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7819.pdf
15. The Rupture of the Holocaust
1. Zvi Kolitz, Yosl Rakover Talks to God
2. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, “Elements of anti-Semitism,” in Dialectic of
Enlightenment (New York: Continuum, 1944)
16. Israel and a New Israeli Culture
1. Oz Almog, The Sabra: The Creation of the New Jew
2. A. B. Yehoshua, in Judaism in a Secular Age
17. Jews, Culture(s) and American Society
1. Philip Roth, “Eli the Fanatic,” in Goodbye, Columbus
2. Andrew Heinze, “Jews and the Creation of American Humanism,” in Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century
The Jews of Latin America, 1500-2000
This course examines the social and cultural history of Jews in
Latin America across five centuries. While Jews have usually formed a
prosperous community in the Iberian world, their relations with the
general society and their status as an ethnic-religious minority have
remained rather ambiguous. The complex interaction between Jews and
Catholics in these countries has presented a paradoxical blend of
conviviality and hostility, acceptance and rejection, tolerance and
prejudice. As both Jewish and Latin American societies have markedly
been molded by cultural contact and mixture on a global scale, the
course places special emphasis on a world perspective, key to our
understanding of this historical topic.
The course locates the Jewish experience in a Latin American
context. Each theme in Jewish history will be preceded by a discussion
on the generall Latin American background. We start wtih an outline of
the Iberian kingdoms in late medieval times, an era of growing
intolerance towards minorities culminating in the expulsion of the Jews
from Spain in 1492. This is followed by a discussion of the conquest
and settlement of the Americas, as well as the roles of Crypto-Jews and
New Christians in the New World. After discussing the colonial period,
we move on to the independence of Latin America (1810-1825) and the era
of mass immigration around the turn of the 20th century, during which
communities were being formed in Latin America. The last part of the
course looks at the turbulent 20th century, characterized by the rise
of the modern nation-state, military dictatorships and political
violence. In this context, we will examine Jewish cultural life,
political activism and interaction with the rest of society. We will
also pay attention to Latin America's international politics in regards
to the Holocaust and relations with the State of Israel.
Course Outline:
1. The Jewish World towards 1492
Raymond Scheindlin, Short History of the Jewish People, chs. 4-5
Yitzhak Baer, History of the Jews in Christian Spain, pp. 1-38
2. Politics, society and culture in the Iberian Kingdoms on the eve of 1492
Marak Burkholder & Lyman Johnson, Colonial Latin America, pp. 23-32
Teofilo Ruiz, Social History of Spain, 1400-1600, ch. 4
J.H. Elliott, Imperial Spain, 1469-1716, pp. 204-223
3.The Jews of Spain and Portugal: from integration to expulsion
Baer, History of the Jews in Christian Spain, pp. 111-137
Stanley Hordes, To the End of the Earth, pp. 13-26
4. The conquest and settlement of the New World
J.H. Elliott, "The Spanish Conquest and Settlement of America," in The Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. I
5. Latin America under colonial rule: the Catholic Church, cultural mixture and race
Stuart Schwartz, "Brazil in the Sugar Age," in Schwartz and Lockhart, Early Latin America, ch. 7
Burkholder & Johnson, Colonial Latin America, ch. 6
6. Crypto-Jews and New Christians in Spanish America
Eva Uchmany, "The Participation of New Christians and Crypto-Jews," in The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800, edited by Paolo Bernardini and Norman Fiering, pp. 186-200
Hordes, To the End of the Earth ch. 2
Nathan Wachtel, "Marrano Religiosity in Hispanic America," in The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, pp. 149-165
6. Crypto-Jews and New Christians in Brazil and the Caribbean
Anita Novinsky, "The Jewish Roots of Brazil,", pp. 33-44
Jonathan Israel, "The Jews of Dutch America," in The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, pp. 335-349
Seymour Drescher, "Jews and New Christians in the Atlantic Slave Trade," in The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, pp. 439-470
7. The independence of Latin America and the rise of liberalism
David Bushnell and Neill Macaulay, The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century, chs. 2-3
Judith Elkin, The Jews of Latin America, ch. 2
8. Modernization and transatlantic mass immigration in the late 19th century
Thomas Skidmore & Peter Smith, Modern Latin America, pp. 36-51
Walter Nugent, Crossing: The Great Translantic Migrations, 1870-1914, pp. 1-37
9. Jewish immigration to Latin America
Elkin, The Jews of Latin America, ch. 3
Jeffrey Lesser, Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question, ch. 1
10. Latin America in the early 20th century: political upheaval and nationalism
John Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, ch. 8
Elkin, The Jews of Latin America, chs. 5-6
11. Jewish community life in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and elsewhere
Adina Cimet, Ashkenazi Jews in Mexico, pp. 27-68
Robert Levine, Tropical Diaspora: The Jewish Experience in Cuba, ch. 3
Jeffrey Lesser, "Jewish Immigration to Brazil," in Baily & Miguez (eds.), Mass Migration to Modern Latin America, pp. 245-261
12. Latin America and the Holocaust
Haim Avni, Argentina & the Jews: A History of Jewish Immigration, ch. 6
Lesser, Welcoming the Undesirables, ch. 4
13. Latin America, the Jews and the State of Israel
Raanan Rein, Argentina, Israel & the Jews, pp. 73-105
Raanan Rein, "Argentine Jews and the Accusation of 'Dual Loyalty'," in Kristin Rugierro (ed.), The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean: Fragments of Memory, pp. 51-71
14. Military dictatorship and political radicalism in the second half of the 20th century
Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire, chs. 9-10
15. Jewish life after the Holocaust: anti-Semitism, political activism and community
Elkin, The Jews of Latin America, ch. 11
The Role of Jews in American Film and Television
As J. Hoberman and Jeffrey Shandler note in Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting
(2003), the relationship between Jews and the American entertainment
media has provoked one of the most extensive public discussions of
identity and culture in this country over the past century. This highly
charged subject has been debated by Jews and gentiles, anti-Semites and
philo-Semites, industry and scholarly observers, fiction writers and
journalists. The history of this discourse reveals shifting notions of
Jewish distinctiveness in America, and, more generally, of identity
politics in the public sphere.
“The Role of Jews in American Film and Television” focuses on
images of and by Jews in the two mass media in which the discussion of
American Jewish influence, expression, and identity figure most
prominently. Drawing on seminal academic and journalistic studies, as
well as on pivotal film and television texts, the course explores the
history and current state of Jewish media representation and
representability. Representation is used here in the dual sense of screen images and behind-the-scenes influence. Representability
refers to the historical discrepancy and ongoing dialectical relation
between these two facets, a discrepancy and dialectic which has been
both alleviated and problematized by Jews’ increasing acceptance in
U.S. society.
Required Texts
Vincent Brook, Something Ain't Kosher Here: The Rise of the "Jewish" Sitcom
Patricia Erens, The Jew in American Cinema
Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
Supplementary Texts
Joyce Antler, ed., Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in Popular American Culture
Steven Carr, Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War II
Leonard Dinnerstein, Antisemitism in America
Lawrence J. Epstein, The Haunted Smile: The History of Jewish Comedians in America
Lester D. Friedman, The Jewish Image in American Film
J. Hoberman and Jeffrey Shandler, Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting
Annette Insdorf, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust
Victor S. Navasky, Naming Names
Jonathan Pearl and Judith Pearl, The Chosen Image: Television’s Portrayal of Jewish Themes and Characters
Jon Stratton, Coming Out Jewish
Stephen J. Whitfield, In Search of American Jewish Culture
Ruth Wisse, The Schlemiel as Modern Hero
Course Schedule
1. Introduction
Course structure, historical context.
Screening: The Larry Sanders Show
2. Immigrant Audiences/Jewish Entrepreneurs
We begin to examine the development of the movies as a mass
cultural phenomenon in the early 20th-century through a look at the
nickelodeon “craze,” in which Jews’ played a prominent role both as
movie-goers and theater owners.
Reading: Gabler, 1-46; Erens, 22-73, Hoberman/Shandler, 15-22 (HO)
Screening: Ragtime
3. Hollywood as Sin City/Jewish Trope
Jews’ early role in the fledgling film industry grows with it; we
focus on the move to Hollywood and on Jews’ emergence as the industry’s
first movie moguls.
Reading: Gabler, 79-119
Screening: What Price Hollywood?
4. Old World/New World, Part 1
The survivalist/assimilationist dialectic is traced from its
origins in Enlightenment Europe to its early 20th-century U.S.
manifestations, focusing on conflicts between European and American
traditions and value systems.
Reading: Erens, 74-124; Hoberman/Shandler, 77-80, 93-99 (HO); Rosenberg, 221-239 (HO)
Screening: The Jazz Singer (1927)
5. Old World/New World, Part 2
Ongoing/increasing friction over assimilation, centered on its most controversial aspect: interfaith marriage.
Reading: Gabler, 120-150
Screening: Brooklyn Bridge
6. Hollywood’s “Jewish Question,” Part 1
Jewish “over-representation” behind the scenes of the entertainment
industries has elicited pride and fear among Jews; among some non-Jews,
the issue has fueled anti-Semitic conspiracy theories (sometimes
abetted by Jews?).
Reading: Gabler, 266-310; Hoberman/Shandler, 47-59 (HO); Carr, 1-50 (HO)
Screening: Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies, and the American Dream
7. Hollywood’s “Jewish Question,” Part 2
Anti-Semitism, as with any ethno-racial prejudice, leads to
self-hatred. How this phenomenon has expressed itself historically and
in Jewish representation (or lack thereof) is explored.
Reading: Brook, 1-17 (HO).
Screening: The Believer
8. Postwar Jewishness, Part 1
Jewish on-screen representation emerges from the Great Retreat in
the early post-World War II era, but it takes non-Jews to make the
first major films about anti-Semitism.
Reading: Erens, 165-196
Screening: Gentleman’s Agreement
9. Postwar Jewishness, Part 2
What Irving Howe terms a philo-Semitic period unfolds in the 1950s,
not only in the movies but in American culture as a whole. But along
with it comes the emergence of new negative Jewish
stereotypes—manufactured and disseminated, this time, by Jews.
Reading: Erens, 197-301
Screening: Goodbye Columbus; Portnoy’s Complaint
10. The Blacklist, Part 1
The HUAC/McCarthyist era is interrogated in relation to its three
inextricable components: anti-Communism, anti-unionism, and
anti-Semitism.
Readings: Navasky, 97-143, 347-370 (HO)
Screenings: Hollywood on Trial: The Legacy of the Blacklist
11. The Blacklist, Part 2
The blacklist era is taken to its fitful (and still unresolved) “conclusion” in the early 1960s.
Reading: Lewis, 3-30 (HO)
Screening: Hollywood on Trial: The Legacy of the Blacklist
12. The Holocaust, Part 1
The Holocaust, as historical event and cultural sign, is explored via its early filmic representations - here and elsewhere.
Reading: Erens, 338-344; Insdorf, xi-xix, 3-42 (HO)
Screening: The Pawnbroker
13. The Holocaust, Part 2
Holocaust representations as they have evolved in more recent times.
Reading: Insdorf, 43-74, 259-267, 285-292
Screening: Schindler’s List; Life is Beautiful
14. Hollywood Renaissance, Jewish-Style
Jewish involvement with the so-called American “New Wave” of the
1960s/1970s, as well as changes in Jewish imagery due to identity
politics and other aspects of this turbulent period.
Reading: Erens, 367-392
Screening: Take the Money and Run; Blazing Saddles
15. Jews and Television, Part 1
Jews’ seminal role in early television, both behind and - contrary
to the movies - on the screen, is analyzed in relation not only to
ethnicity but also to class, gender, and sexuality in the 1950s.
Readings: Brook, 21-42; Hoberman/Shandler, 113-123 (HO)
Screening: The Goldbergs
16. Jews and Television, Part 2
Jewish televisual representation, after a Great Retreat in the late 1950s and 1960s, has a brief uptick in the 1970s.
Reading: Brook, 43-65
Screening: Bridget Loves Bernie; Rhoda
17. The “Jewish” Sitcom Trend, Part 1
An unprecedented upsurge in Jewish television representation, particularly in sitcoms, occurs in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
Reading: Brook, 66-147
Screening: Friends
18. The “Jewish” Sitcom Trend, Part 2
The latest manifestations of Jewish television (and movie) images are explored.
Reading: Brook, 148-180
Screening: Curb Your Enthusiasm
19. Where We’re At, Where We’re Going
Summary and Review
Modern Jewish Religious Thought
The intent of this course is to provide the student with a
background in the vital issues and some of the major thinkers in modern
Judaism. I have chosen representative theologians, although interested
students might also explore Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Emanuel
Levinas and many others.
The first part of this course will introduce students to four major
Jewish theologians. Each speaks to a distinct side of religious life,
and together they give a panorama of Judaism in this century. If you
read these writings with attention, it should provide a spur to your
own reflections and theologies.
The latter part of the course will focus on Judaism and
contemporary issues (i.e. the Holocaust, Israel, gender, and
mysticism.) We will be looking at a variety of modern Jewish
theologians’ approaches to these topics, as well as discuss our own
perspectives and opinions about these topics as influenced by these
thinkers.
Modernity has provided enormous challenges to the Jewish people,
epochal in their scope. The aftermath of the enlightenment, the
holocaust, the founding of the state of Israel, the meaning of an
American diaspora and much more has to be integrated into contemporary
Jewish thought. This provides tremendous social ferment and
intellectual excitement. Studying together, I hope that some of that
excitement will touch the classroom and our lives.
Required Texts:
Martin Buber, The way of Man According to the Teachings of the Hasidim
Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath
Joseph Soloveitchik, The Lonely Man of Faith
Course Outline:
1. Introduction to Topic/Syllabus/Expectations
Assigned Reading for next session:
Robinson, George, Essential Judaism, 505-536. (Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, and Orthodox platforms)
2. Historical Background- European Emancipation and Waves of Immigration
American Denominationalism
Assigned Reading for next session:
Buber, The Way of Man, entire book
Robinson, George, Essential Judaism, 440-446 (Background on Buber and piece from I and Thou)
3. Martin Buber-Background, Biography, and History
Assigned Reading for next session:
Buber, I and Thou, 53-75
Mendes Flohr and Arthur Cohen Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought (CJRT), article on I-Thou by Maurice Friedman
4. Martin Buber and Religious Existentialism
Assigned Reading for next session:
Robinson, George, Essential Judaism, 449-453 (Background of Soloveitchik)
Soloveitchik, Joseph, Lonely Man of Faith, entire book
5. Joseph Soloveitchik-Background, Biography, and History
Assigned Reading for next session:
Soloveitchik, Joseph, Halakhic Man, pages 1-8, 19-29. 99-105
6. Joseph Soloveitchik and Modern Orthodoxy
Assigned Reading for next session:
Heschel, Abraham Joshua, The Sabbath, entire book
Robinson, George, Essential Judaism, pages 446-449 (Background of Heschel)
7. Abraham Joshua Heschel, Background, Biography, and History
Assigned Reading for next session:
Heschel, Abraham Joshua, God in Search of Man, pages 43-52, 125-133, 136-143
8. Abraham Joshua Heschel and Modern Hasidism
Assigned Reading for next session:
Kaplan, Mordecai, Judaism as a Civilization, pages 3-15, 173-185, 187-208
Pasachoff, Naomi, Great Jewish Thinkers, pages 186-197 (Background of Kaplan)
9. Mordecai Kaplan, Background, Biography, and History
Kaplan, Mordecai, Judaism as a Civilization, 511-522
10. Mordecai Kaplan and Reconstructionist Judaism
Review notes for review session and come prepared with questions
11. Midterm Review Session
12. Midterm in-class exam (4 short answers-1 page each and 1 long response-2-3 pages)
Assigned Reading for next session:
Birnbaum, David, God and Evil, 16-50
article on Evil in CJRT by Richard Rubenstein
13. God and Evil
Assigned Reading for next session:
Pasachoff, Naomi, Great Jewish Thinkers, pages 199-204 (Background Reading)
article on Holocaust in CJRT by Emil Fackenheim
14. Holocaust Theorists-Berkovits, Rubenstein, and Fackenheim (Backgrounds, Biographies, and Histories)
Assigned Reading:
Articles on the State of Israel by Michael Rosenack and Zionism by Ben Halpern in CJRT.
15. Israel Theorists - Hartman and Ellis (Backgrounds, Biographies, and Histories)
Assigned Reading:
Heschel, A.J. Israel, An Echo of Eternity, 119-122
Hartman, David, Conflicting Visions, 231-242
Eisen, Arnold, Galut , 117-147
16. God and Israel
Assigned Reading for next session:
Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai, 25-75
Umansky, Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality (Reclaiming the Covernant)230-235
17. Gender Theorists - Plaskow, Adler, Umansky (Backgrounds, Biographies, and Histories)
Assigned Reading for next session:
Pasachoff, Naomi, Great Jewish Thinkers, pages 210-215
Robinson, George, Essential Judaism, pages 498-501
18. Jewish Feminist Theology
Assigned reading for next session:
Ariel, David S., The Mystic Quest, pages 39-49, 55-63, 163-189
Robinson, George, Essential Judaism, 360-404
19. Mysticism - Green, Kushner, Scholem (Biographies, Background, and History)
Assigned reading for next session:
Weiner, Herbert, Nine and ½ Mystics, pages 3-22
20. Kabbalah and Contemporary Society/Conclusion
Final Exam: Date TBA
Jewish Civilization: Encounter with Great World Cultures
In studying the encounters of Jews with great world cultures from
antiquity to the present, this course will analyse the creative
adaptations that have lent Jewish culture its distinct and various
forms. It is an introduction to the Jewish historical and cultural
experience in its widest temporal and spatial expanses.
Course Outline
1. Civilization and its Discontents: Opening the Question
Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations
2. Is there a Jewish Civilization?
Mordecai Kaplan, Judaism as Civilization
Gerson Cohen, The Blessings of Assimilation.
3. Origins: The Rise of Israelite Monotheism
Exodus
Israel Finkelstein and Neil A. Silberman, The Bible Unearthed
Yehezkel Kaufmann, The Religion of Israel
Regina M. Schwartz, The Curse of Cain
4. The Predicament of Exile
Ben-Sasson, A History of the Jewish People
Y. F. Baer, Galut
Arnold Eisen, “Exile” in Cohen/Mendes-Flohr, Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought
David Roskies, ed., The Literature of Destruction
5. The Hellenistic Encounter
Lee Levine, Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity
Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski, “How to be a Jew in Hellenistic Egypt?,” Diasporas in Antiquity
Philo, Three Jewish Philosophers
6. The Diaspora Idea
Ben-Sasson, A History of the Jewish People
Daniel and Jonathan Boyarin, “Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Identity,” Critical Inquiry 19 (Summer 1993)
Judah Nadich, Jewish Legends of the Second Commonwealth
7. The Christian Encounter
Gabriele Boccaccini, Middle Judaism
Lawrence H. Schiffman, From Text to Tradition
Alan Segal, Rebecca’s Children
8. Jewish Languages: A Prism of Cultural Interaction
Guest Lecturer: Prof. Yona Sabar
9. Is there a Judeo-Christian Civilization?
James Carroll, Constantine’s Sword
Dominus Jesus
Dabru Emet
10. The Islamic Encounter
Mark Cohen, Between Crescent and Cross
Bernard Lewis, The Jews of Islam
T. Carmi, ed. The Penquin Book of Hebrew Verse
11. Islam and Judaism at Intellectual Crossroads
Guest Lecturer: Prof. Hossein Ziai
Isadore Twersky, The Maimonides Reader
12. Muslim-Jewish Relations: The Modern Fall
Charles Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Bernard Lewis, The Jews of Islam
13. Jews, Art, and the Visual
Guest Lecture: Dr. Grace Grossman
14. The European Encounter: Enlightenment and the Jews
C. W. Dohm in Mendes-Flohr/Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World
Moses Mendelssohn in Mendes-Flohr/Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World
Solomon Maimon, “My Near Conversion,” The Golden Tradition
Heinreich Heine, “A Ticket of Admission to European Culture,” The Jew in the Modern World
15. The “Jewish Question” in Society
Karl Marx in Mendes-Flohr/Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World
Richard Wagner in Mendes-Flohr/Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World
Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State
16. Non-Jewish Jews and Jewish Genius
Isaac Deutscher, “The Non-Jewish Jew”
Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism
Franz Kafka, “Letter to My Father,” The Jew in the Modern World
17. The End of (Jewish) Civilization in Europe?
Adolf Hitler in Mendes-Flohr/Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World
Selections in Mendes-Flohr/Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World
Martin Heidegger, “Rectorial Address”
Jan T. Gross, “Neighbors,” The New Yorker
18. Toward a New Jewish Civilization: America?
Mordechai Kaplan, Judaism as Civilization
19.Toward a New Jewish Civilization: Israel?
Sources on Israel in Mendes-Flohr/Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World
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