HISE 3513 History of the Jews in Russia, 1772-2000

HISE 3513 History of the Jews in Russia, 1772-2000
History of the Jews in Russia, 1772-2000
This course studies the history of the Jews in Russia from the First Partition of Poland in 1772 until the beginning of the twenty-first century. The course examines the evolution of that Jewish community itself and the issues that divided that community. It also reviews the evolving policies that tsarist and Soviet regimes adopted toward the Jews. Finally, the course addresses the scope of official and unofficial anti-Semitism in tsarist and Soviet Russia. A vital question the course explores is that of Jewish identity and self-definition, particularly the individual and collective responses Russian Jews made to the tsarist regime's profound anti-Semitism, the pronounced emancipation under the early Soviet regime, or to the anti-Semitic policies that emerged in the Soviet Union after WWII.
credit hours: 3