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About the class
1. Who are the Jews and where did they come from?
*Ashkenazim & Sephardim
* E. Europe, EC Europe, Balkans
  • Sachar (8) 3-11
  • c/Weinryb (15) 17-32
  • c/David, (14) 79-93 (handout)
  • c/Elazar (6) 1-6

    43
Tu
2. Eastern Europe as a Jewish haven
* Community & family
  • Sachar (3) 11-13
  • c/Umansky & Ashton (6), 1-6, 24-6
  • c/Katz (17) 4-22

  • XC: Polin--Hundert (7)

    26
Th
* Jewish-Gentile interaction
  • c/Weinryb (12) 33-45
  • c/Roskies & Roskies (11) 59-68
  • c/Katz (17) 4-22
  • c/Ettinger (7) 23-30

  • XC: Polin--Tazbir (12), 26-38

    56
Tu
3. The 17th-century ‘deluge’
  • Sachar (4), 13-16
  • c/Pelenski (11) 31-42
  • c/Heritage (5) 185-90

  • XC: (11) Polin--Rosman 39-49

    20
Th
4. Paradoxes of Enlightenment & first emancipations
  • Sachar (46) 17-64
  • c/Blanning (2) “Joseph II”
  • c/Iggers (17) 29-36, 43-45, 65-72

    65
Tu-Th
5. The 19th-century Jewish World:

* Hasidism

* Haskalah

  • Sachar (36) 64-93, 113-119
  • c/Iggers (12) 77-89
  • Kieniewicz (8) 70-77

  • Mahler (13) 3-16
  • Heritage (2) 227-229
  • Dawidowicz (19)119-127

  • XC: Zborowski (22) 166-188
  • XC: Polin--Kieniewicz (17)
  • XC: Polin--Biale (14)

    112
Tu-Th
6. Modern Anti-Semitism

  • Sachar 253-276 (24)
  • c/Levy, Anti-Semitism: A Definition (9) 2-11
  • c/Lindemann, (18) 26-29, 40-56
  • c/Iggers, (9) 183-190; 197-199

  • XC Himka (48) 111-158 (in Ukrainian-Jewish Relations)

    60

Midterm
Tu-Tu
7. Assimilation and its alternatives
  • Sachar (76), 202-252, 332-358
* Socialism
  • c/Deutscher (2) 265-6 (JMW)
  • c/Dawidowicz (10) 119-29, 405-410
  • c/Iggers, Women of Prague, (27) 198-225
  • c/Iggers (8) 101-107, 134-135

  • XC: Mendelsohn, Wilhelm Feldman (14)
* Emigration
  • c/Glenn (41) 8-49

164
Th
8. Zionism
  • Sachar (54) 277-331
  • c/Mendelsohn (15) 520-534 (reserve)
  • c/Iggers (8) 231-8

77
Th
9. World War I and the New Europe
  • Sachar (26) 414-439
  • c/Polish Minority Treaty JMW (3), 437-439
  • c/Levy (18), 147-165

47
Sa
10. Interwar Eastern Europe
  • c/Levy (11) 178-89
  • c/Livezeanu/Sebastian (21) 297-319
  • Polin: Rudnicki (22) 359-381

54
Tu
11. The Holocaust
  • Sachar (52), 504-556
  • Levy (6), 252-258

  • XC Elie Wiesel, Night

58
Th
12. Jews Under Communism
  • Sachar (37), 594-631
  • c/Govrin (7), 361-368
  • c/Webber, ed., Jewish Identities: Kovács (10), 150-160, re: Hungary
  • c/Webber, ed., Jewish Identities: Gebert (6), 161-167, re: Poland
    60
Tu-Th
13. Post-1989 Ideologies:
  • TIME: 'More than Remembrance' (3)
  • c/Webber, ed., Jewish Identities: Wistrich (8), 219-227

  • XC Ian Buruma, NYT Magazine, Aug. 3, "Young Poles, New Jews"
    11

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