JWST 7520 - Jewish Cities

(crosslisted) ANTHR 7620, HIST 6520, NES 7520
(CU-ITL)

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with ANTHR 4620/HIST 4520/JWST 4520/NES 4520.

E. Sampson.

From Jerusalem to Rome, from Shanghai to Marrakesh, Jews and cities have been shaping each other for thousands of years. This course ranges through time and space to examine how Jewish and other “minority” experiences offer a window onto questions of modernity and post-colonialism in intersections of the built environment with migration, urban space, and memory. Readings and film/video encompass historical, ethnographic, visual, architectural and literary materials to offer a broad look at materials on ghettos, empires, cosmopolitanism, tolerance, immigrant enclaves, race and ethnicity.