New courses in Historyhttp://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/index.htm2008-04-29MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.eduen-USContent within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htmHow our views of Jewish history have been formed and how this history can explain the survival of the Jews as an ethnic/religious group into the present day. Special attention to the partial and fragmentary nature of our information about the past, and the difficulties inherent in decoding statements about the past that were written with a religious agenda in mind. Considers complex events in Jewish history -- from early history as portrayed in the Bible to recent history, including the Holocaust.http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-914Fall-2007/CourseHome/index.htmTemin, Peter2008-03-12T01:21:36-04:0021H.914en-USHistoryJewish/Judaic StudiesAmerican JewJewish immigrantelite minorityJewish economic elitesAnne FrankWarsaw GhettoNightNazisAuschwitzWWIIPolish JewishfacismHolocaustAshkenaziMedieval Jewiwsh TradersMaimonidesRoman hostility to the JewsMaccabean RevolutionRomeJudaeabiblical IsraelSolomonbibleExodusGenesisFive books of MosesMIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.eduContent within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htm