ANTH 190
American Jewish Culture

Credit:  3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
US Minority Culture(s) course.

Examines American Jewish experience in its cultural and historical diversity. Introduces the approaches of cultural anthropology in order to investigate how an ethnic group has elaborated and continues to elaborate its identity in American culture and society through strategies of individual and collective behavior. In this way, American Jewish identities emerge as the products of specific interactions between Judaism's overarching cultural system and local American cultural formations.