Ithaca College
Fall Semester 2004

 

Jews in the Modern World
Revised Reading Assignments

Week 10

October 26: Ottoman Empire & Colonialism

October 28: Modernization of Middle-Eastern Jewry

Stillman, pp. 3-46.
Simon, pp. 19-24.

Simon, pp. 65-83 (religious life)
Simon, pp. 242-250 (changing roles of women)
Mendes-Flohr, pp. 316-321 (Alliance Israelite Universelle).

Week 11

Nov. 2: Jews of Russia I: Pogroms, Socialism & Zionism

November 4: Jews of Russia II: Musar, Haskalah, Yiddish culture

Scheindlin, pp. 173-187.
Mendes-Flohr, pp. 372-380 (Russian anti-Jewish measures), 408-411 (pogroms), 417-423 (Jewish socialism).

Course Reader #5: David Biale, "A Journey Between Worlds," pp. 799-834.
Mendes-Flohr, pp. 381-386 (Haskalah), 394-397 (Musar), 402-405 (Yiddish vs. Hebrew)

Week 12

November 9: American Jewry from 1654-1881 (Sephardic & Ashkenazic immigration)

November 11: American Jewry after 1881

Scheindlin, pp. 187-190.
Mendes-Flohr, pp. 449-465.

Scheindlin, pp. 190-197.
Mendes-Flohr, pp. 468-470 (Reform & Orthodox Jews), 472-476 (immigration), 509-512 (restrictions on immigration), 517-518 (Reform Jews).

Week 13

November 16: Zionism

November 18: WWI & between the wars

Scheindlin, pp. 217-226.
Simon, pp. 165-172.
Mendes-Flohr, pp. 529-538 (Herzl), 541-543 (First Zionist Congress), 548-549 (Palestine as goal), 558-562 (Arabs in Palestine), 568-571 (religious anti-Zionism), 582 (Balfour Declaration).

Evening Class: showing of Image Before My Eyes

Roth, pp. xi, 1-67

 

 

 

Nov. 23-25: No classes, Thanksgiving break

Week 14

November 30: Rise of anti-semitism & Nazism

December 2: the Shoah

Roth, pp. 121-137.
Stillman, pp. 93-112.
Mendes-Flohr, pp. 302-303, 309-310 (Fichte), 313-315 (Damascus Affair), 327-334 (racial anti-semitism), 343-346 (Treitschke), 363-367 (Protocols of the Elders of Zion), 512-514 (Henry Ford), 636-639 (Hitler)

Scheindlin, pp. 199-215.
Stillman, pp. 113-139.
Mendes-Flohr, p. 642 (Aryan paragraph), 645-649 (Nuremberg laws), 656-658 (Hitler’s Jan. 1939 speech), 662-665 (Wannsee conference), 666-673 (life in the Warsaw Ghetto), 686-690 (Rudolf Hoess), p. 696 (Jewish deaths).

Week 15

December 2: Founding of Israel

December 7: Israeli and American Jewry since 1945

Scheindlin, pp. 227-238.
Simon, pp. 172-179.
Mendes-Flohr, pp. 589-594 (Palestine mandate), 609-611 (Jabotinsky), 613-617 (White Paper), 626-627 (UN resolution), 629-630 (Proclamation of the state)

Scheindlin, pp. 238-263.

Additional Session to be scheduled during week of Dec. 2: study session for the Final Exam

Final exam: Thursday, December 16, 2004, 4:30 p.m-7 p.m.

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