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History of The State of Israel From 1948 to The Present

Tue, Mar 3, 2015 • 7:15 PM - 9:00 PM

Congregation Rodeph Sholom
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Led by Michael Stanislawski

This course will introduce participants to the complex and fascinating history of the State of Israel from its founding to the present. It will focus as much on the internal social, political, and religious history of Israel as on its foreign policy, wars, and the ongoing conflict. It will try to provide participants with deep insights into the many successes as well as profound challenges facing the state from 1948 to 2015, employing as many primary sources and translations from Hebrew as possible.

Session 1: From Independence to 1967
Session 2: From the Six Day War to the Political Revolution of Menachem Begin
Session 3: Politics, Society and Culture from 1977 to 2000
Session 4: The Contradictions of Israel in the Twenty-first century: Economics, Religion, and the Peace Process.

MICHAEL STANISLAWSKI is the Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1980. He teaches Modern Jewish History; the History of Israel; Russian and Soviet History; and European Intellectual History as well as courses in Columbia’s famed Core Curriculum. He is the Director Emeritus of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, and has served as chair, among others, of the Department of History, the Contemporary Civilization core course, the program in Yiddish Studies, and the Undergraduate Program in Human Rights at Columbia. He is the author of six books on East European Jewish History and of dozens of scholarly and popular articles and reviews in Jewish History, Russian History, and the History of the State of Israel.