History | Antisemitism in Europe Since the Enlightenment
B303 | 27723 | Roseman
27723 9:30-10:45 MW
Above section for Jewish Studies students only. Obtain on-line
authorization from the Jewish Studies Academic Advisor
The course addresses major issues in the history of Anti-Semitism in
Europe from the late 18th century to the post-Holocaust era. The
term anti-Semitism did not exist until the 1870s, and so a core
question within the course will be whether the second half of the
19th Century constituted a major point of discontinuity,
transforming older European traditions of Christian hostility
towards Judaism into a largely secular and often racially based anti-
Semitism. Or does the new label of 'anti-Semitism' create a
misleading sense of novelty and unity, concealing the continuing
heterogeneity and diversity of a variety of anti-Jewish movements?
Another key theme of the course is understanding the degree to which
the Holocaust was the heir to European anti-Semitism. Finally, we
will ask in what forms anti-Semitism survived in Europe after the
Holocaust.
One text is required purchase:
The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History, by Paul R.
Mendes-Flohr (Editor), Jehuda Reinharz (Editor) Product Details
Paperback: Publisher: Oxford University Press; 2nd edition
(May 1995)
ISBN: 019507453X
The other readings will be on the e-reserve list for this course.
There will be a midterm, a final exam, and two writing assignments
responding to the reading.