"But they're JUST people": Teaching Jewish American (auto)biography in a Jewishly impoverished university
This paper examines the cultural barriers crossed when teaching a Jewish topics course in a university with a minimal Jewish presence in a predominately Christian city. This upper-level general education course uses (auto)biography to show the connection between a person's public and private li...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Creighton University
2004
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The journal of religion & society
Year: 2004, Volume: 6 |
| Further subjects: | B
Autobiography
B Education; Methods B Jews; United States B Jews; Relations; Christians |
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| Summary: | This paper examines the cultural barriers crossed when teaching a Jewish topics course in a university with a minimal Jewish presence in a predominately Christian city. This upper-level general education course uses (auto)biography to show the connection between a person's public and private life. This section used texts by Jewish Americans. The students' reactions to the texts reveal their preconceived notions of not only (auto)biography, but Judaism. Their responses show the students' growth in their understanding of the Jew in American and American Jewish history, most important in the current climate of multi-cultural education practices. |
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| ISSN: | 1522-5658 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion & society
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10504/64312 |