An Exploration Of The Origins Of Anti-Semitism

Evangeline Monroe

Tuesdays, 10:00 a.m. - Noon
March 25 - May 13, 2003
D.O.C. House

This course will explore the origins of Anti-Semitism, beginning with the rise of Christianity. We will review the religious, historic, economic, political, and cultural roots of anti-Semitism. Three sessions will be devoted to religious anti-Semitism. Three sessions will focus on anti-Semitism in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, the Islamic world, and the United States. The last two classes will consist of reports by class members on anti-Semitism in literature. The class will be primarily class discussion, but each session will begin with a brief lecture. Class readings, important for a focused class discussion, will be approximately 20 pages per week plus each student's choice of literature featuring some aspect of anti-Semitism. This is not a Holocaust course.

Class is limited to 20 participants.

Evangeline Monroe is a retired Foreign Service Officer whose interest in the origins of anti-Semitism began during a tour in Germany. Evangeline and her husband Gerald, also a retired Foreign Service Officer, have come to the Upper Valley by way of Washington, DC, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Hong Kong, and Venezuela.