Modern Jews Middle East
(Offered as HIST 107 and ASLC 107) This course introduces students to the histories of Jews in the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1950s, beginning with the Ottoman reforms of the 1850s and concluding with the mass migration of Middle Eastern Jews to Israel-Palestine. Spanning topics from Jewish newspapers in India to musicians in North Africa, it examines how Jewish communities responded to the religious, political, and cultural transformations associated with modernity.