Cross-listed with HIST329F. Credit will be only granted for JWST319V or HIST329F. 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 integrationof a once-detested ethnic-religious group into European society. The f ocus of the course will be Europe, where most Jews lived in the period between 1650 and 1870.