2025 Fall HISTORY 103B 002 SEM 002

2025 Fall

HISTORY 103B 002 - SEM 002

Proseminar: Problems in Interpretation in the Several Fields of History: Europe

The Jews of Germany

John M Efron

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025
Mo
10:00 am - 11:59 am
Class #:23231
Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through History

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 6
Enrolled: 9
Waitlisted: 1
Capacity: 15
Waitlist Max: 10
Open Reserved Seats:
8 reserved for Undergraduate Students: History Majors and Minors

Hours & Workload

9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 3 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week.

Other classes by John M Efron

Course Catalog Description

This seminar is an introduction to some dimension of the history of a nation, region, people, culture, institution, or historical phenomenon selected by the respective instructor. Students will come to understand, and develop an appreciation for: the origins and evolution of the people, cultures, and/or political, economic, and/or social institutions of a particular region(s) of the world. They may explore how human encounters shaped individual and collective identities and the political, economic, and social orders of the region/nation/communities under study. Instructors prioritize critical reading, engaged participation, and focused writing assignments.

Class Description

This seminar is designed to introduce students to an examination of the major themes and issues concerning the history of the Jews in Germany from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. German Jews made defining innovations in Jewish life while at the same time, they also contributed to general western culture to a degree disproportionate to their numbers. No other Jewish community has had such a profound effect on both Jewish and European civilizations concurrently. Among the topics to be explored are the debates over Jewish emancipation, the scholarly and religious life of German Jews, integration into and separation from the mainstream, German antisemitism and Jewish responses, economic transformations, communal organization and family life, Jewish culture in the Weimar Republic, life under Nazi rule, Jewish life in postwar Germany.

Rules & Requirements

Repeat Rules

Requirements class fulfills

Meets Historical Studies, L&S Breadth
Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences, L&S Breadth

Reserved Seats

Reserved Seating For This Term

Current Enrollment

Open Reserved Seats:
8 reserved for Undergraduate Students: History Majors and Minors

Textbooks & Materials

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