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Syllabus Israeli Society (2018)
Steven M. Cohen, Research Professor of Jewish Policy at HUC-JIR and Director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at Stanford University
Steven M. Cohen, Research Professor of Jewish Policy at HUC-JIR and Director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at Stanford University
Essential Reading “Israel’s Religiously Divided Society,” Pew Research Center, March 8, 2016 "Together and Apart: Israeli Jews’ Views on their Relationship to American Jews and Religious Pluralism," Findings from the Survey of Israeli Jews…
Syllabus Israeli Society (2018)
David Ellenson, Director, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, and Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University
David Ellenson, Director, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, and Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University
Essential Readings: David Ellenson,The Rock from Which They Were Cleft, Jewish Review of Books, Winter 2012 Donna Robinson Divine, Citizenship and Democracy in Israel in: S. I. Troen & R. Fish (eds.), Essential Israel…
Syllabus U.S. Jews and Israel (2019)
Steven Bayme, Director of the Contemporary Jewish Life Department of the American Jewish Committee and of the Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations
Steven Bayme, Director of the Contemporary Jewish Life Department of the American Jewish Committee and of the Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations
Essential Reading Steven Bayme, “American Jewry and the State of Israel: How Intense the Bonds of Peoplehood?”, Jewish Political Studies Review, vol. 20 nos. 1-2 (Spring 2008), 7-21. Peter Beinart,…
Syllabus Americans in Israel: From the 19th Century to the Present (2019)
Jonathan Sarna, University Professor and the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History; Chair of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program; and Incoming Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University
Jonathan Sarna, University Professor and the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History; Chair of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program; and Incoming Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University
Presenation Powerpoint View in PDF format. Essential Reading Michael B. Oren, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, W.W. Norton, 2011, pp. 3-7,…
Syllabus Americans in Israel: From the 19th Century to the Present (2018)
Jonathan Sarna, University Professor and the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History; Chair of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program; and Incoming Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University
Jonathan Sarna, University Professor and the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History; Chair of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program; and Incoming Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University
Presenation Powerpoint View in PDF format. Essential Reading Michael B. Oren, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, W.W. Norton, 2011, pp. 3-7,…
Syllabus The Impact of the Shoah on Israeli Society (2019)
Laura Jockusch
Laura Jockusch
Required Reading: Dalia Ofer, “The Past that Does Not Pass: Israelis and Holocaust Memory,” Israel Studies 14,1 (2009), 1-35. Yehiam Weitz, “The Holocaust on Trial: The Impact of…