Winter 2026
Meeting:
MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm
SLN:
15653
Section Type:
Lecture
Joint Sections:
JEW ST 250 A
Syllabus Description (from Canvas):
Journey across 3,000 years of Jewish history—from ancient Israelite culture to modern Jewish comedy. Explore how Jewish communities worldwide have reinvented identity, faith, and culture through art, ritual, and everyday life. Using a wide range of historical sources, discover how a global people has continually adapted and redefined itself.
Catalog Description:
Introductory orientation to the settings in which Jews have marked out for themselves distinctive identities as a people, a culture, and as a religious community. Examines Jewish cultural history as a production of Jewish identity that is always produced in conversation with others in the non-Jewish world. Offered: jointly with JEW ST 250.
GE Requirements Met:
Social Sciences (SSc)
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
November 9, 2025 - 3:00 am