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JCTC2301: History and Memory: Tracing Jewish Pasts

2025 unit information

The modern discipline of history is a relatively new approach to conceiving of the past. By contrast, and for millennia, diverse communities have recorded and related to their pasts in a myriad of ways, forging what has become known as “collective memory”. Now comprising the sub-discipline of memory studies, these approaches provide insight into the past and its significance for the present. Beginning with Jewish collective memory as articulated in classical texts such as the Bible and Rabbinic writings, we then expand our focus to examine contemporary expressions of collective memory as embodied in monuments, museums and commemorative events, both within and beyond the Jewish experience.

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Arts and Social Sciences

Study level Undergraduate
Academic unit Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 1000-level from Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture or Modern Hebrew or Arabic Language and Cultures or History
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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None

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Semester 1 2025
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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