AP/HIST 1190 6.00

The Jewish Experience, Civilization and Culture

Cross-listed with: AP/HUMA 1880 6.0

Responsible Unit: Humanities
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An examination of the interaction of Jews and gentiles in selected periods from antiquity through the 20th century. A case study in ethnic adaptation, the course seeks to understand how Jews sometimes adapted their lives to the world around them, and at other times withdrew into themselves, and how at certain times they exerted considerable influence on the people among whom they lived or who lived among them. Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 2850 9.00 (prior to Fall 2014). Note: History Majors and Minors cannot take this course to satisfy the six credits required at the 1000-level in History for major or minor credit.

(Cross-listed to: AP/HUMA 1880 6.00)