This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

Historically, the figure of the "Jew" has been thought of as male. Making male experience normative has in turn shaped how Judaism itself has been understood. Shifting the basic terms and focus to include attention to women, gender, and sexuality significantly re-shapes our understanding of both Judaism and of Jewish culture/history. This course not only "fills in the blanks" of the missing women of Jewish history and tradition, but attends to questions of contemporary forms of Jewish women's and men's gendered lives, identities and sexualities.

This course focuses on a wider range of philosophical and theological responses to the Holocaust, primarily-but not only-in the Jewish tradition.

This course explores how various cultures through time and space have interacted with the natural environment in an effort to achieve material, spiritual, and medical well-being. (Gen. Ed. HS, DG)

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What do health and medicine mean in an age of pandemic? This course will explore the long and deep history of Jewish engagement with medicine and healing, examining how ideas about health, medical knowledge, and health care providers have shifted over time. Over the course of the semester, we will look at the ways that Jews across the Middle East, Europe, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Atlantic conceived of health, illness, and the body, asking how Jewishness and Judaism contributed to these developments.

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