WGSS 380JWomen in Film: World Cultures

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HIST 385J/JUST 384B/WGSS 380J - Gender in Jewish History Professor Dina Danon Fall 2024 Course Description: Beginning in antiquity and continuing up until the present day, the course asks how constructions of masculinity and femininity have impacted Jewish communities, institutions, and individuals in religious, cultural, social, and economic life. The course also seeks to reconstruct the lives of Jewish women over time, and in doing so will draw on case studies from across the Jewish world (including Europe, the United States, and the Middle East). We will consult a wide range of primary sources, among them classical Jewish texts, personal correspondence, memoirs, the press, photographs, and many others. Throughout the course, we will interrogate how the analytical category of gender not only helps us tell a more comprehensive story about the Jewish past, but also challenges prevailing understandings of Jewish history.