RUSSIAN JEWRY   [Archived Catalog]
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog
   

RELGST 1257 - RUSSIAN JEWRY


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the experience of Russian Jewry during the 145 year period from its entrance into Russian political life to the end of the empire. We will treat both the internal dynamics within the community as it came to be transformed from a religiously based and clerically dominated leadership to a national-cultural entity that developed a variety of political movements and expressions in order to articulate its new found modern identity.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis


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