The Modern Jewish Experience : : A Reader's Guide / / ed. by Jack Wertheimer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bodian, M.,; Cohen, Richard I.,; DellaPergola, Sergio,; Fishman, David E.,; Gerber, Jane,; Gillman, Neil,; Lederhendler, Eli,; Levin, Neil W.,; Magnus, Shulamit S.,; Mirelman, Victor A.,; Mittelman, Alan,; Nadler, Allan L.,; Roskies, David G.,; Rozenblit, Marsha L.,; Schoenfeld, Stuart,; Shimoni, Gideon,; Waxman, Chaim I.,; Weinberg, David,; Wertheimer, Jack,
• HerausgeberIn: Wertheimer, Jack,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1993]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The pace of scholarly research and academic publication in fields of Judaica has quickened dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. The major consumers and producers of this new scholarship are found in Jewish Studies programs that have proliferated at institutions of higher learning around the world since the 1960s. From the vantage point of the nineties, it is difficult to fathom that until thirty years ago, Jewish studies courses were mainly limited to a few elite universities, rabbinical seminaries, and Hebrew teachers' colleges. Today there are few colleges at public or private insitutions of higher learning that do not sponsor at least some courses on aspects of Jewish study. In light of this explosion of research on Jewish topics, non-specialists and educators can benefit from guidance through the thicket of new monographs, source anthologies, textbooks and scholarly essays. The Modern Jewish Experience, the result of a multi-year collaboration between the International Center for the University Teaching of Jewish Civilization and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, offers just such guidance on a range of issues pertaining to modern Jewish history, culture, religion, and society. With contributions from two dozen leading scholars, The Modern Jewish Experience presents practical information and guidelines intended to expand the teaching repertoire for undergraduate courses on modern Jewish life, as well as a means for college professors to enrich and diversify their courses with discussions on otherwise neglected Jewish communities, social and political issues, religious and ideological movements, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Sample syllabi are also included for survey courses set in diverse linguistic settings. An indispensible resource for undergraduate instruction, this volume may also be used to great profit by educators of adults in synagogue and Jewish communal settings, as well as by individual students engaged in private study.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Part I. A GUIDE TO FIELDS OF STUDY -- Area Studies -- 1. The Jews in Early Modern Central and Western Europe -- 2. Polish Jewry to the Partitions -- 3. The Jews in Imperial Russia -- 4. Soviet Jewry -- 5. The Jews of Austria-Hungary -- 6. The Jews of North Africa and the Middle East -- 7. American Jewish History -- 8. Jews in Commonwealth Countries -- 9. Israeli Society and Culture -- 10. Latin American Jewry -- Social and Political Issues -- 11. The Traditional Jewish Community -- 12. Jewish Emancipation -- 13. Secular Jewish Culture -- 14. Modern Jewish Social History -- 15. The Mass Migration of East European Jews -- 16. Modern Antisemitism and Jewish Responses -- 17. The Holocaust -- Religious and Ideological Movements -- 18. Hasidism and Its Opponents -- 19. Religious Movements in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe -- 20. Modern Jewish Religious Movements -- 21. Modern Jewish Politics -- 22. Zionist Ideology -- 23. Religious Culture and Politics in Israel -- Disciplinary Perspectives -- 24. Modern Jewish Literature -- 25. Jewish Art in the Modern Era -- 26. Jewish Music in the Modern Era -- 27. Modern Jewish Thought -- 28. Modern Jewish Demography -- 29. American and Canadian Jewish Sociology -- Part II. TEACHING RESOURCES -- An Annotated Guide to Major Reference Works -- Sample Syllabi for Survey Courses on the Modern Jewish Experience Taught in Diverse Linguistic and National Settings -- 1. The Modern Jewish Experience -- 2. The Modern Jewish Experience -- 3. The Modern Jewish Experience -- 4. The Modern Jewish Experience -- 5. The Modern Jewish Experience -- 6. The Modern Jewish Experience -- Index of Authors