Cross-listed with JWST319V. Credit only granted for HIST329F or JWST319V.
Analysis of the social, cultural, and political forces that led to the emancipation of the Jews--the granting to them of equal rights with all other inhabitants of the countries in which they lived-- and the integration of a once-detested ethnic-religious group into European society. The focus will be Europe, where most Jews lived in the period between 1650 and1870.