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Welcome to the GSU Program in Jewish Studies.
The Jewish Studies program at
Georgia State is designed to introduce students to Jews’ complex encounter with the modern world.
Students
study topics including Jews’ assimilation and civil rights struggle;
religious reform and the rise of ultraorthodoxy; immigration and urbanization;
ethnic identity formation; Zionism, Israel, and the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict; socialism and Communism; feminism and changing gender roles;
anti-Semitism and the Holocaust; American Jewish culture, history and
politics; Jewish cultures (Yiddish, Hebrew, and vernacular); interfaith
and interethnic alliances; and human rights advocacy.
The Jewish Studies program is
interdisciplinary in method and global in scope. It helps students
to combine insights from numerous fields, including history, sociology,
language and literature, religious studies, communication, political
science, psychology, and women’s studies.
Students encounter Jews in historical settings ranging from the ancient
Mediterranean to modern Europe, to North and South America, to the Middle
East.
The program highlights the fascinating and volatile compound of
religion, ethnicity, nationality, and diaspora that comprises modern Jewish
life today. Students have the opportunity to analyze Jews’ experience,
both on its own terms and in comparison with the parallel experiences
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