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HISTORY 283 JEWISH STUDIES 235

HISTORY 283 JEWISH STUDIES 235. JEWS IN MODERN TIMES. Syllabus. http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/BCooperman/Modern/283syllabus.html http://www.history.umd.edu. History 299c. Films Monday 4-6 Le Frak Hall. Professor Bernard Cooperman. Taliaferro (TLF) Rm 2130; 301-405-4271

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HISTORY 283 JEWISH STUDIES 235

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  1. HISTORY 283JEWISH STUDIES 235 JEWS IN MODERN TIMES

  2. Syllabus • http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/BCooperman/Modern/283syllabus.html • http://www.history.umd.edu

  3. History 299c Films Monday 4-6 Le Frak Hall

  4. Professor Bernard Cooperman Taliaferro (TLF) Rm 2130; 301-405-4271 bc40@umail.umd.edu Office hours: Mon. 11:00-12:00, Wed. 10:00-11:00, and by appointment

  5. Teaching Assistants • Nicholas Schlosser • FSK #3125 • njschlosser@hotmail.com • Daniel Stotland • FSK #3119 • dstot@hotmail.com

  6. Stock Issues I • external vs internal • passive vs active • shall we periodize according to how others treat the Jews?

  7. Stock Issues II • Who is a Jew in Jewish History? • apologetic approach • Nazi definitions • State of Israel’s definitions • continuity?

  8. Stock Issues III • What community is the true bearer and proper subject of Jewish history? • territorial definition unavailable

  9. Approaches • Idealist Approach • grand theories about God or Destiny • traditional Jewish self-perception • combined with German idealist and romanticist historiography

  10. Heinrich Graetz (1817-91)

  11. Graetz II • The totality of Judaism is discernible only in its history. Its complete nature, the sum of its powers, becomes clear only in the light of history. Every vital idea must create for itself a solid existence. • History is not only the reflection of the idea, but also the test of its power. • Structure of Jewish History p. 65

  12. re-evaluation of ideas • Diaspora --> “theoretical period” when immediacy becomes reflection • Moses Mendelssohn

  13. Limitations • political emancipation vs Holocaust • religious mission vs Zionism • Zionist historiography vs diaspora

  14. Post-Modern? • Europeans’ “Contemporary” history • we will try to go past 1945 and 1948 to at least 1967 with some discussion of contemporary events • historical study should lead to contemporary understanding through contextualization

  15. Shmuel Ettinger • centrifugal vs centripetal

  16. Traumatic Modernization • geographic alienation • cultueral alienation • even the centripetal is a reaction to centrifugal

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