Goucher College 2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Dec 26, 2024  
Goucher College 2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

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

(HIS 251 /GER 251 ) (LER-TXT)
This course focuses on the history of German Jews from the period of emancipation in the late 18th and early 19th 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 19th century; the rise of the Reform movement; Jewish assimilation and its discontents; and the Weimar Jewish Renaissance. Fall semester Larkey.