JUDS 0980V S01 [CRN: 23668]

What roles did the family play in modern Jewish society and how did Jewish women participate in them? These questions are at the heart of this seminar. Through discussions of primary sources (in translation) and modern research, we will use the tools of gender analysis to examine the history of the Jewish family from the mid-seventeenth century until today. Topics discussed include: Jewish law and the family, women and the politics of the family economy, sex and the erotic, women's spirituality, the bourgeois Jewish family in imperial Germany, Jewish family life before the Holocaust, and intermarriage in the contemporary USA. WRIT

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Assignments and Grading

Over the course of the semester, students will be expected to write two response papers (1,500-2,000 words each) on major monographs in the field. In addition, students will write a research paper (4,000-5,000 words) on a topic to be determined. After consultation, students will receive a topic and basic bibliography from me. They will be expected to compile a full bibliography and paper outline (by 3/21), and first draft (by 4/5), which will be discussed in class. Once this has been corrected, they will submit a final version (by 5/2). Grading 1. Class Participation 15% 2. Two Response Papers: 15% each = 30% 3. Research paper: Bibliography and First Draft: 15% Final Paper 40%

Readings and Texts

Students will be expected to write papers of 1,500-2,000 words on the two following monographs. - Iris Parush, Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society, Hanover 2004 - Marion A. Kaplan, The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany, New York 1991 In addition, students will be expected to read Philip Roth’s novella, Goodbye Columbus: Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus - And Five Short Stories, Houghton Mifflin: Boston 1994, pp. 1-136, by the last class (4/25).

Term

Spring 2013

Credit Hours

1.0

Maximum Enrollment

40

Course Attributes

Writing - Designated Courses

Primary Instructor

Adam Teller

Meetings

4:00 pm - 6:20 pm Thu - from Jan 23, 2013 to May 17, 2013

Exam Group Code

15 (May 15, 2013 9:00am)