Topic: History of Modern Israel
| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8:30am-9:45am | TuTh | Bowden Hall 116 | Kenneth Stein. | HSC. | 4 | 1601 | TBA. |
Course description: This upper level course traces the origins and development of modern Zionism and the evolution and growth of modern Israel. From biblical connections of the Jewish people to the land of Israel until the present, the course looks at the themes, causes, ideologies, diplomacy, neighbors, and leaders that shaped the contemporary Jewish state. Five periods of study are addressed: to the 1840s, from then until 1922, the Palestine Mandate or Yishuv until after statehood, and 1949 to the present.
Texts:
- Laqueur, Walter, A History of Zionism;
- Dowty, Alan, The Jewish State: A Century Later;
- Hertzberg, Arthur, The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader;
- Stein, Kenneth W., Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace;
- Sternhell, Zev, The Founding Myths of Israel;
- Stein, Kenneth W., Documentary Reader of Modern Israel (to be purchased from the instructor)
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