Goucher College 2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Dec 21, 2024  
Goucher College 2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

GER 251 - Jews in Germany From the Enlightenment to the Rise of the Nazi Regime (3 Cr.)

(HIS 251 /JS 251  ) (LER–TXT)
This course focuses on the history of German Jews from the period of emancipation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century to the end of the Weimar Republic. We will examine the role of German Jews in German politics, economic life, and culture; Jewish enlightenment (“Haskalah”); the rise of anti-Semitism in the nineteenth century; the rise of the Reform movement; Jewish assimilation and its discontents; and the Weimar Jewish Renaissance. Fall semester. Larkey.