This course will provide an introduction to the history of Jewish life in North America from the arrival of the first Jews to New Amsterdam in 1654 to the present day. Over the source of the semester we will try to answer the following key questions which form the core of our examination of American Jewish history.
Students are responsible for all material covered in class lectures and in required readings.
There will be one mid-term and one final examination. Each examination will count as one third of the final grade, the other third will be the average of the two response papers. Papers of high quality may raise the final average up to one full letter grade. You cannot lower your grade by writing this paper. Topics for this assignment must receive instuctor's approval.