Jewish Studies students should register for section 26582 for R345

The above sections of R345 carry A & H, CSA

This course will examine the American context of American Judaism
from the late nineteenth century to the present. We will focus on
the ideological shifts from Judaism’s largely European context as it
becomes accustomed to the American social, political, and spiritual
climate. This course will not be a survey of American Judaism nor
will it focus on the historical development of American Jewish
communities. Its purpose, rather, will be to examine the developing
nature of Judaism in America as it becomes an “American religion.”
While we will look back as far as the nineteenth century and the
rise of Reform Judaism as the standard of American Jewish religious
and cultural life, our focus will be the twentieth century, mostly
the second half of that century, and view the ways in which American
Judaism underwent a renaissance that severed itself from its
European antecedents and later Israeli cousin .