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This eight-session course will focus on changing attitudes towards (and by) Jews in America, from 1654 through the present. Topics discussed will include:
Peter Stuyvesant’s efforts to expel the first Jewish settlers in America
George Washington’s letter of welcome
General Ulysses S. Grant’s Order #11 expelling Jews from Tennessee
the 19th-century Americanization of the prayer book
Charles Coughlin, Henry Ford, and the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”
Mordecai Kaplan’s hyphenated American Jew
Jews in American politics
the growing acceptance of Jews in academia
the rise of anti-Semitism in the U.S. today
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Lunch & Learn: 8 Fridays, Feb. 8-Apr. 5, 2019
Friday, February 8, 2019
Fairfield University: Canisuis Hall, Room 15
1073 N Benson Rd Fairfield, CT
Registration is Closed
Lunch & Learn: 8 Fridays, Feb. 8-Apr. 5, 2019
Friday, February 8, 2019
Fairfield University: Canisuis Hall, Room 15
1073 N Benson Rd Fairfield, CT
Lunch & Learn: 8 Fridays, Feb. 8-Apr. 5, 2019
Friday, February 8, 2019
Fairfield University: Canisuis Hall, Room 15
1073 N Benson Rd Fairfield, CT
,
Get in touch! or