| This course is a survey of major political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments in the history of the Jewish Diaspora from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Key questions to be explored include: How and why Jews have survived across time and space despite their dispersal and frequent persecution? What may Jewish survival teach us about how a resilient culture that is indigenous to the Middle East yet has a global dimension was and is built, how it changed, and how it has come apart and been successfully rebuilt? Though an examination of one culture that is central to the development of Middle Eastern and Western civilizations, you will learn how cultures in general are built, damaged or destroyed, re-built, and can adapt to existential challenges—and how you can apply lessons about cultural resiliency in your own life and to the benefit of your community. |
Course Credits
3
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