JCTC6913 - German Jewish Experience

Semester 2, 2011  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Konrad Kwiet
Phone: +61 2 9351 3172
Email: konrad.kwiet@sydney.edu.au

Description

This unit of study will examine the complex relations between Germans and Jews in the pre-Nazi period, a time regarded by some contemporaries as the 'golden years' of the 'German Jewish symbiosis'. The texts and topics discussed will be selected from the writings of German Jewish intellectuals, philosophers and literary figures of German Jewish descent, including Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, and Theodore Herzl.

Assessments

1x5000wd essay (100%)

Classes

2x1-hr seminars/week

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