Modern Jewish History (UCLA Spring 2018)

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Student podcast from UCLA History M182C (Modern Jewish History). Instead of writing a paper as a final project, students produced a short podcast episode about modern Jewish history. The students chose their topics, researched, wrote, and recorded their episodes.

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6: Sinai to Seinfeld? Modern Jewish History and Culture

By Lance Cacia and Luis Orendain How do a people and culture in isolation become mainstream? From antiquity to modernity there have been significant developments such as the Jewish Diaspora, Emancipation, Haskalah, and immigration that have led Jews out of the fringes of society and into popular culture.

Sep 21, 2018•47 min

5: Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany after the Holocaust

By Nichola Nati, Commor Smith, and Victoria Wabah In this episode, we discuss the reconstruction of Jewish life after the Holocaust in Germany. Specifically, we seek to answer two questions. First, we aim to find out why 10,000 to 15,000 Jews chose to stay in Germany after surviving the Holocaust. Second, we want to show why Jewish history matters, especially with regards to the post-Holocaust period in Germany. To answer these questions, we delve into a handful of memoirs from Holocaust survivo...

Sep 21, 2018•1 hr 2 min

4: Understanding the Holocaust

By Deeown Shaverdian Today I discuss major questions: Why the Jews? Was it jealousy that lead to the rise of these antisemitic social norms in Europe? Who were the perpetrators? Who were the victims? Who were the bystanders, if any? My argument would be that there is no such thing as bystanders in times of moral crisis.

Sep 21, 2018•18 min

3: Jewish Immigration to the U.S.

By Kenny Peterson and Sam Winters

Sep 21, 2018•24 min

2: Jews, Race, and the Caribbean Cultural Matrix

By Jackie Davis Today we'll be talking about particular ways the mutable American Jewish identity has been formed by (and forms) race. ---- Do you know that sound? The heartbeat rhythm, the call to Zion… What comes to your mind when you think of Bob Marley? Jamaica? Rastafarianism? Reggae? Judaism? I’m willing to bet that last one was a bit of a surprise. As it was for me. Iconic Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley (born in 1945) was in fact the son of Norval Marley, a white British-Jamaican w...

Sep 21, 2018•21 min

1: Hasidism

By Jasmin Cohan and Danielle Goldsmith Hasidism is a Jewish religious group that has its origins in the 18th century contemporary Western Ukraine where it started as a spiritual revival movement. Israel Ben Eliezer, also referred to as Baal Shem Tov or Besht was the founding father of Hasidism. The followers of Hasidism, also known as Pious Ones or Hasidim, were distinguished by their exercise of street piety. Hasidism emerged in 12th century Germany before the religious reforms. Its main differ...

Sep 21, 2018•29 min

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