Browsing Yeshiva College Syllabi -- 2021 - 2022 courses (past versions for reference ONLY) -- JHI (Jewish History) by Title
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HIS2141/JHI1508: History of the Holocaust
(2019-09)This course examines the fate of European Jewry between 1933 and 1945. We shall cover the rise and fall of the democratic Weimar Republic in the 1920s, the Nazi seizure of power, anti-Jewish policy and legislation in Nazi ... -
HIS2141/JHI1508: History of the Holocaust
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)This course examines the fate of European Jewry between 1933 and 1945. We shall cover the rise and fall of the democratic Weimar Republic in the 1920s, the Nazi seizure of power, anti-Jewish policy and legislation in Nazi ... -
JHI 1341: Sepharad: The Jews of Medieval Spain
(2020-09)This course will investigate the cultural history of the Jews of Spain (the Sephardim), from the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711 until the expulsion of 1492. Medieval Spain, with its vibrant Muslim and ... -
JHI 1400: Modern Jewish History
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is a survey of the history of the Jews and Judaism in the modern age, from 1650 to the present. The course will examine the very different ways in which Jews reacted to modernity in Western, ... -
JHI1340 Sepharad: The Jews of Medieval Spain (711-1492)
(2020-09)►This course will investigate the cultural history of the Jews of Spain (the Sephardim), from the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711 until the expulsion of 1492. Medieval Spain, with its vibrant Muslim and ... -
JHI1510: Cultural History of Modern Israel
(2020-09)►This course offers a history of the State of Israel. Not the history, but a history. Although a young country, Israel has been the focus of such intense scrutiny that it is an impossible task to cover all possible angles ... -
JHI3510 Writing Jewish History
(2020-09)►We take Jewish history for granted. We assume that we know what we mean when we talk about history, but do we? As one of the longest “histories” of any group in the human family, Jewish history spans unimaginable epochs ... -
Medieval Jewish-Christian Encounter
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)COURSE DESCRIPTION: Jews and Christians encountered and responded to one another in medieval Europe in a variety of contexts and fashions, some of which were deliberate and conscious, others of which were less so. These ...