University of California, Santa Cruz
Odesa: Jews in the Modern World
University of California, Santa Cruz

Odesa: Jews in the Modern World

Taught in English

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Murray Baumgarten
Peter Kenez

Instructors: Murray Baumgarten

4.7

(14 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
13 hours to complete
3 weeks at 4 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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What you'll learn

  • Describe the connection between Odesa as a place of opportunity and abundance, international trade, and modern capitalism.

  • Connect virtuosity with Jewish interculturality and the complications of multilingual cultural production .

  • Describe the ambiguous class and economic status of Jews in the Russian Empire and Pale of Settlement.

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There are 8 modules in this course

In this first lecture, Professors Kenez & Baumgarten describe life in Odesa circa 1850-1930, a port city in Ukraine that was a dynamic opportunity zone for its Jewish population. They also introduce Jewish virtuosos Bialik, Babel, and other writers and artists of Odesa.

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4 videos5 readings2 quizzes1 discussion prompt

Professor Kenez discusses the lives of Jews in the Pale of the Settlement, demographic changes, and the impact of industrialization on Jews in late 19th-century Russia.

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1 video1 reading1 quiz

Professor Baumgarten discusses Babel’s short story “Gedali,” the intercultural lives of Jewish virtuosos, and the impact of modernism and internationalism on their creative output.

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1 video3 readings1 quiz

Professor Kenez discusses programs, varieties of antisemitism, and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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1 video1 reading1 quiz

Professor Kenez discusses the culture, skills, and talents that Jews used to achieve something extraordinary in the modern world. He focuses on the development Jewish working and entrepreneurial classes, the advent of the Bund (the Jewish Labor Force), and the onset of the Revolution and Russian Civil War.

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1 video1 reading1 quiz

Professor Baumgarten discusses Babel’s stories about growing up in Odesa where, for a brief window of time, Jews could have a better life than anywhere else in the Russian Empire. Simultaneously this was a dangerous and contested social space.

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2 videos2 readings1 quiz

In this final letcure, Professors Kenez & Baumgarten discuss the role and fates of Jews during the Russian Revolution and Civil War.

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1 video1 reading1 quiz

Learners will compete a peer reviewed final project: "A Postcard from Odesa"

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1 peer review

Instructors

Murray Baumgarten
University of California, Santa Cruz
2 Courses21,308 learners
Peter Kenez
University of California, Santa Cruz
3 Courses68,747 learners

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