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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
History of Jewish People & Contemporary Jewry
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Uzi Rebhun
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wednesday 17:30-18:30
Teaching Staff:
Prof Uzi Rebhun
Course/Module description:
The course will analyze and discuss immigration to Israel from 1948 through today, similarities and dissimilarities in demographic and socio-economic characteristics, spatial dispersion, family and gender, Jewish identity, voting patterns, and more.
Course/Module aims:
To expose students to major meeting points of Jews from different social and cultural backgrounds, how the ethnic dimension has evolved over time, and what are the major schools of thought on ethnicity in contemporary Israel.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Understanding of major processes of the Israeli society of the last 75 years;familiarity with materials in the social sciences that deal with modern Israel; and exposure to general theories on immigration and ethnic mixing.
Attendance requirements(%):
100%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures
Course/Module Content:
The development of the Jewish settlement in pre-statehood era; immigration; population dynamics; social stratification; family and gender; Jewish and Israeli identity; voting patterns; leaving the promised land; Holocause memory; Israel in a comparative Jewish perspective.
Required Reading:
Reading list will be distributed in the first class (up to 2 items [articles/book chapters] per class). A scanned copy of all reading materials will be uploaded on the model.
Additional Reading Material:
No
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 100 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
Class exam in writing of 2.5 hours.
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