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The Jewish Experience in Rome
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This Course is Available through these Programs:
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Faith & Religion
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Global Business & Governance
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Liberal Arts & Sciences
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The Legacy of Modern Italy
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Academic Institution: CEA GlobalCampus: Rome
Location: Rome, ItalyPrimary Subject Area: Religious Studies
Level(s): 300
UNH Course Code: REL341
Instruction in: English
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Prerequisites: None
Description
For more than two thousand years Jews have lived in Rome, making it the oldest Jewish community in Europe. Traces of Jewish heritage are entrenched throughout the city from the ancient settlement of Ostia Antica to the modern Great Synagogue on the banks of the Tiber. From the ruins of the historic Roman Ghetto to the contemporary districts where today's vibrant 18,000 strong Jewish population lives. This course concentrates on the origins, history and changing cultural conditions of Jewish life in Rome and on the particular characteristics of the Roman Jewish experience.
Attending many classes and discussions directly on site, you'll visit the major monuments of historic and contemporary Jewish life in the city in order to retrace the birth and subsequent evolution of the community, its 400 years of Ghetto life, the emancipation of the late 19th century, the fascist racial laws of the 1930s, and the mass deportation under Nazi rule. We will probe and analyze the distinctive language, ethnicity, traditions and identity of this Romanim community, as it is known, and its complex relationship with its Christian neighbors, the Papacy and the Italian state.
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