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Winter 2002
This information effective for Winter 2002.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Winter 2002
Instructor: Gary Lease
Office: Oakes College 208
E-mail: rehbock@cats
TTH 8:00–9:45 a.m.
Oakes 105
COURSE OUTLINE: The course will consist mainly of lectures, discussion and films.
Week 1: INTRODUCTION: so-called search for the historical Jesus; critical scholarship
and sources for a “life” of Jesus; Jesusites vs. Christians; Jesus
and the origins
of Christianity
Film: Life of Brian
Week 2: MEMORIES OF JESUS I: Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke as folk and community-based sources of different Jesuses
Film: Last Temptation, part 1
Week 3: MEMORIES OF JESUS II: Gospel of John, the Apocalypse, and Paul as theologizing sources of different Jesuses
Film: Last Temptation, part 2
Week 4: MEMORIES OF JESUS III: Gospel of Thomas, Nativity Narratives, the Gnostics and Jewish-Christians as sources of different reconstructed Jesuses
Week 5: TYPOLOGIES OF JESUS I: Jesus as accident (wrong person in right place;
right person in wrong place)
Film: The Magician
Week 6: TYPOLOGIES OF JESUS II: Jesus as Jew and Messiah
Week 7: TYPOLOGIES OF JESUS III: Jesus as Hellenistic Wise Man, healer/miracle
worker, and theologian (= hippy)
Film: The Ruling Class, parts 1 and 2
Week 8: TYPOLOGIES OF JESUS IV: Jesus as revolutionary and urban guerilla
Week 9: TYPOLOGIES OF JESUS V: Jesus as divine and as god Alexandria vs. Antioch
Week 10: CONCLUSION: is there a “real” Jesus? How many Christianities derive from how many Jesuses
EVALUATION: Students will be required to take two exams (a mid-term and a final),
and in addition provide essay responses to take-home questions. Their performance
on these exercises will constitute the basis of an evaluation of their work.
READINGS from
Burton Mack
Geza Vermes
Paula Fredriksen
Hugh Schonfield
Norman Mailer
Dominic Crossan
Various gospels
Winter 2002
Instructor: B. L. Epstein
TTH 10:00–11:45 a.m.
Eight Acad 242
January 3: Introduction
Eastern Europe: Jewish Movements of the 18th and 19th Centuries
January 8: Hasidism versus Traditional Judaism
January 10: Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment) versus Hasidism and Traditional
Judaism
Reading: Lucy S. Davidowicz, The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe, Introduction, “The World of East European Jewry,” “Early Hasidism,” and “The Haskalah,” pp. 1–142. In the Reader.
Eastern Europe: Jewish Revolutionary Movements of the Turn of the Twentieth
Century
January 15: Jewish Populism
January 17: The Bund: Jewish Revolutionary Trade Unionism
Reading: Ezra Mendelsohn, Class Struggle in the Pale: The Formative Years of the Jewish Workers’ Movement in Tsarist Russia (Cambridge University Press, 1970), chapters 1–6, 8 (pp. 1–125, 153–158). In the Reader.
The European Origins of Zionism
January 22: Eastern Europe: Cultural Zionism and Socialist Zionism
January 24: Western Europe: the Triumph of Political Zionism
Reading: Nora Levin, While Messiah Tarried: Jewish Socialist Movements 1871-1917
(Schocken, 1971), Part Four, “Socialist Zionism” (pp. 377–456,
529–536).
Bernard Avishai, The Tragedy of Zionism: Revolution and Democracy in the
Land of Israel (Farrar Strous Giroux: 1985), chapter one, “Political
Zionism,” and chapter two, “Cultural Zionism” (pp. 22–66).
In the Reader.
Jewish Migration: Palestine
January 29: Zionist Visions and Realities in Palestine: the Turn of the Twentieth
Century
January 31: Zionism in Mandate Palestine
Reading: Amos Elon, The Israelis: Founders and Sons. In the Reader.
Jewish Migration: the US
February 5: Jewish Life and Yiddish Culture in New York
February 7: Jews and Socialism in the US
Reading: Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), chapters 6–9 (pp. 169–324, 660–669). In the Reader.
The US: Jews, Labor and the Left
February 12: Jews, Jewish Women, and the US Labor Movement
February 14: Jews and Communism in the US
Reading: Susan A. Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation
Europe: The Rise of Fascism
February 19: The Rise of Fascism: Anti-Semitism and Jewish Resistance in Poland
February 21: The German Occupation and the Holocaust
Reading: Celia S. Heller, On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland between the Two World Wars
The Holocaust and Jewish Resistance
February 24: Ghetto Uprisings in Vilna and Warsaw
February 26: The Minsk Ghetto Underground
Reading: Rich Cohen, The Avengers (Knopf, 2000).
The Postwar Impact of the Holocaust
March 5: Film: Partisans of Vilna
March 7: The US: Jewish Politics in the Postwar Era
Reading: Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999).
The Sixties: Jews and the Revival of Radicalism
March 12: The US: Jews in the Movements of the Sixties
March 14: Conclusion
Reading: Debra Schultz, Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement
(NYU Press, 2001) excerpts. In the Reader.
Arthur Liebman, Jews and the Left, excerpts. In the Reader.
Books to order:
Celia Heller
Rich Cohen
Susan A. Glenn
Peter Novick