2) Class participation, which accounts for 10% of your grade.

3) An hourly examination, comprised of identifications and a short essay, 
given in class on Tuesday, March 19, 2002, worth 20% of the grade.

3) A term paper, ten pages in length:

A) A one page prospectus describing the paperís topic and thesis and 
including a preliminary bibliography is due in class on Thursday, February 28, 2002

B) Completed papers are due in class on Tuesday, April 2, 2002.

C) The papers will be annotated, graded, and returned on Thursday, April 11, 2002.

D) Students may rewrite the paper and hand it in during class on Tuesday, April 23 2002. 
The final draft is worth 35% of the course grade. Please hand in the original with the rewrite.

4) A final examination, worth 35% of the grade, written in the designated period during finals week.
 

Books for Purchase: 

Etan Diamond, And I will Dwell in Their Midst: Orthodox Jews in Suburbia
Neil Gilman, Conservative Judaism: The New Century
Samuel C. Heilman, Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the 20th Century 
Dana Kaplan, Contemporary Debates in American Reform
Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab, Jews and the New American Scene
Jack Wertheimer, A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America

Reserve Readings:

Judith Baskin, "Women and Judaism," The Encyclopaedia of Judaism*
Benjamin Brown, "Orthodox Judaism," The Blackwell Companion to Judaism*
Daniel Gordis, "Conservative Judaism: The Struggle between Ideology and Popularity," The Blackwell Companion to Judaism*
Susannah Heschel, On Being a Jewish Feminist
Craig Horowitz, "Are American Jews Disappearing?" New York Magazine
 "A Matter of Faith," Newsweek, December 15, 1997, pp. 49-55
Dana Kaplan, "Reform Judaism," The Blackwell Companion to Judaism*
Dana Kaplan, "The Practice of Judaism in the Second Half of the 20th Century," The Encyclopaedia of Judaism*
Jeffrey Salkin, "Judaism, Contemporary Expressions of; New Age Judaisms," The Encyclopaedia of Judaism*
Jacob Staub, "Reconstructionist Judaism," The Encyclopaedia of Judaism*
Arthur Waskow, God WrestlingóRound 2: Ancient Wisdom, Future Paths
Paul Wilkes, And They Shall Be My People
Joel Zaimon, "The Practice of Judaism in the 21st Century USA," The Encyclopaedia of Judaism*

(*Available via course web-site)
 

 I. Introduction: Asking the Question 

Jan. 15  The Problem of Religion in a Secular World

 Reading: 

Wertheimer, A People Divided, pp. xi-xix
 Diamond, And I Will Dwell, pp. 3-25

II. The History of the American Jewish Community

Jan. 17, 22 Uprooting and Replanting: The Immigrants and Their Children

Reading: 

Lipset and Raab, Jews and the New American Scene, pp. 1-74

Jan. 24 The Third Generation: ìReligiousî Revival

Reading: 

Wertheimer, A People Divided, pp. 3-17
Heilman, Portrait of American Jews, pp. 3-46
Diamond, And I Will Dwell, pp. 55-86

Jan. 29 The Fourth Generation: The Emergence of ìJewishnessî

Reading: 

Wertheimer, A People Divided, pp. 18-39
 Heilman, Portrait of American Jews, pp. 47-100 

III. American Judaism as Religion

Jan. 31, Feb. 5 Reform Judaism

Reading: 

Wertheimer, A People Divided, pp. 95-113
 Kaplan, "Reform Judaism," A Companion to Judaism
 Kaplan, Contemporary Debates, pp. 19-55, 97-110, 209-234

Feb. 7, 12 Orthodox Judaism

Reading: 

Wertheimer, A People Divided, pp. 114-136
 Diamond, And I Will Dwell in Their Midst, pp. 87-145
 Brown, "Orthodox Judaism," The Companion to Judaism

Feb. 14, 19 Conservative Judaism

 Reading: 

Wertheimer, A People Divided, pp. 137-159
 Gilman, Conservative Judaism: The New Century
 Gordis, "Conservative Judaism," The Companion to Judaism

Feb. 21 Reconstructionist Judaism

Reading: 

Staub, "Reconstructionist Judaism," The Encyclopaedia of Judaism
Wertheimer, A People Divided, pp. 160-169

Feb 26 New Age Judaisms

Reading: 

Salkin, "Judaism, Contemporary Expressions of; New Age Judaisms," The Encyclopaedia of Judaism
Heilman, Portrait of American Jews, pp. 101-164 

Feb. 28 Term Paper prospectus due

Feb 28 Catch-up, Discussion, and Review
 

March 12, 14 The Religious Life of Contemporary American Jews
What American Jews Believe?

Reading: 

Wertheimer, A People Divided, pp. 43-91

March 19 Hourly Examination

IV. American Judaism as Ethnos

March 21 The Inner Life of the American Synagogue
Reading: 

Paul Wilkes, And They Shall Be My People

March 26, 28 Judaism as Culture: Secular Religion

Reading: 

Lipset and Raab, Jews and the New American Scene, pp. 75-172

April 2, 4 Judaism and Gender

 Reading: 

Heschel, On Being a Jewish Feminist, pp. 215-280
 Baskin, "Women and Judaism," The Encyclopaedia of Judaism
 Kaplan, Contemporary Debates, 171-208
Waskow, Godwrestling, pp. 73-97

April 9, 11 American Jewish Survival: Demography and Intermarriage

Reading: 

Horowitz, "Are American Jews Disappearing?" New York
 "A Matter of Faith," Newsweek, December 15, 1997, pp. 49-55
 Lipset and Raab, Jews and the New American Scene, pp. 173-208
 Kaplan, Contemporary Debates, pp. 131-170
 Diamond, And I Will Dwell in Their Midst, pp. 146-159

April 16, 18 Visions of 21st Century Judaism

 Reading: 

Waskow, God Wrestling, pp. 9-44, 123-134, 187-212
 Kaplan, Contemporary Debates, pp. 235-253
 Zaimon, "The Practice of Judaism in the 21st Century USA," The Encyclopaedia of Judaism

April 23 Final papers due (please turn in first draft as well)

April 23 Catch-up, Discussion, and Review

V. Conclusions

April 25 The Complexities of Contemporary Religious Life

 Reading: 

Wertheimer, A People Divided, pp. 170-196
 Neusner, Judaism in Modern Times, pp. 227-244
 Diamond, And I Will Dwell in Their Midst, pp. 146-159