JH 8 October Syllabus

 

Week of:            pages                        Topics

Oct. 4- 8 -             197 – 207                        - new streams of Judaism in Western Europe

                                                            - Jews of England

                                                            - Moses Montifiore

                                                            - Marranos and Sephardim in the Americas

                                                            - first Jews of America

                                                            - Touro Synagogue 

11- 15 -             208 – 209,                         - American Revolutionary War

                        212 - 217                        - Gershom Menes Seixas           

                                                            - Haym Salomon           

                                                            - Washington and the Jews

                                                            - Jews move west/ Jewish peddlars

                                                            - Jewish women in America

                                                            - Levi Strauss

                                                            - Jews and the U.S. Civil War

18 – 22 -             219 – 220                        - Reform in the U.S.

                        222 - 229                        - Isaac Mayer Wise

                                                            - Tsar Nicholas and the Jews

                                                            - Tsar Alexander

                                                            - the Haskalah

                                                            - Yiddish Literature

                                                            - Persecutions and Progroms

                                                            - First Aliyah, Bilu

                                                             - Dreyfus Affair

25 – 29 –             230 – 235                        - Zionism

                        Additional                        - revival of Hebrew/ Eliezer Ben Yehuda

                        Readings from                        -  Second Aliyah

                        article                                    - mass migration of Eastern European Jews to U.S.

-       beginnings of Orthodoxy in the U.S.

Please note: open notebook quizzes – Mon. Oct. 11, 18, 25

                        TEST – Thursday, October 28th