Few chapters in all of history are as dramatic—both tragic and spectacular--as modern Jewish history. The apparent success of Jewish emancipation was...

Introduction to Modern Jewish History (1800 - Present) (HEBR0013)

Few chapters in all of history are as dramatic—both tragic and spectacular--as modern Jewish history. The apparent success of Jewish emancipation was challenged by popular and religious non-Jewish opposition, and efforts among Jews to control or turn back such changes. No matter what, Judaism and Jews did not stand still. Antisemitism gained traction as reactionary utopia, along with the persistence of traditional prejudice and discrimination. Against this background there arose a variety of Jewish ideologies, including:

 

• Modern Orthodoxy

• Reform Judaism

• Zionism

• Territorialism

• Variants of socialism

• "Ultra" orthodoxies

• National extremism

 

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Jewish life changed radically, and European Jewry came close to being totally wiped out in the Holocaust. Since the late eighteenth century, Jews had sought new ways to think about and live in the modern world. Numerous individuals 'of Jewish origins' took the lead in attempting to understand the changes wrought by modernity—including:

 

• Karl Marx

• Sigmund Freud

• Theodor Herzl

• Bertha Pappenheimer

• Emma Goldman

• Hannah Arendt

• Walter Benjamin

• Susan Sontag

• Philip Roth

 

Expressions of cultural interpretation and creativity including 'Jewish literature' and film will be featured in the module. This is an introductory module that does not assume any previous experience with the subject.

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This module addresses a number of questions related to the ideological context in which moral and philosophical discourses are produced. In this respect, it...