Jewish History

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Art Spiegelman

Using a medium often associated with lightheartedness to portray the horrors of the Holocaust.

Wissenschaft des Judenthums

The new academic study of Judaism examined Jewish religion from the scholarly perspectives of theology, literature, and history.

The Beginnings of the Territorial Conflict

An overview of Israel's relationship to the Sinai, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights, 1948-67.

Absorbing the Exiles

Israel worked to absorb massive numbers of Jewish immigrants during the 1950s.

Judaism in the Public Square

It's time to chip away at the wall of separation.

Israel’s Foreign Policy

An examination of the development of the Israeli military.

Jewish History, 1948 to 1980

A narrative of Jewish history between 1948 and 1980, including the foundation of the state of Israel, Jews in the USSR, and suburbanization in the United States.

After the Holocaust

Refugees and trials of the Nazis.

Holocaust as History

An introduction to historical scholarship about the Holocaust.

Jewish Emancipation in Russia

Faced with state-endorsed anti-semitism, Russian Jews attempted to make their own emancipation.

Jewish Emancipation In The East

What differed from the West?

Jewish Emancipation and Enlightenment

How Enlightenment ideals in Europe created the potential for Jewish citizenship.

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