Jillian Rubin

Has this course significantly changed your view of Jewish history, and if so in what way?

Yes, this class has changed my view of Jewish history. The reason for that is that through this class I have learned a great amount of Jewish history that I did not know about before. In class we learned about Jews during the Middle Ages, and that was really the first time I had learned about Jews during that time. From this class I also learned about Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews and their different beliefs. Although I knew some of this before I learned a great amount from class and the readings for class. This class therefore has changed my view on Jewish history because I have learned a lot from this class that I definitely did not know about before. There are many aspects of Jewish life that I did not ever learn about before taking this class that I now have a better understanding of.