SOCI 188FModern Jewish Societies and Israeli Society
Contradictory effects of modernization on Jewish society in Western and Eastern Europe and the plethora of Jewish responses: assimilation, fundamentalism, emigration, socialism, diaspora nationalism, and Zionism. Special attention will be paid to issues of discontinuity between Jewish societies and Israeli society. Simultaneously, we will scrutinize the influence of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on Israeli society, state, and identity.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “upper-division standing. Will not receive credit for SOCI 188F and SOCD 188F.”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (4)
- Sociology—Culture and Communication (B.A.)
- Sociology—International Studies (B.A.)
- Sociology—Law and Society (B.A.)
- Sociology—Science and Medicine (B.A.)