Judaic Studies 375 - JewishExperience/AtlanticWorld

This course explores the migration and settlement of Jews within Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the period of expulsions and forced conversion to Christianity in Europe (fourteenth-sixteenth centuries) to the present day. Special attention will be given to identity; social and religious institutions; regional variations; poverty; intergroup relations; the impact of the slave trade and slave societies; immigration waves; gendered experiences; and the shift from a regime based on legal restrictions and privileges to modern societies based on inalienable rights. (Gen. Ed. HS, DG)