JEWISH AMERICAN VOTERS IN 20TH CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Description

This course will offer a unique retrospective on Jewish voting patterns and the issues that motivated the majority--and minority--of Jewish voters.

Location

ONLINE

Date & Time

THURSDAYS, 10:00-11:30am (ET) November 7 - November 21, 2024

In United States politics, Jews have changed political positions multiple times.

 

Course Description :

This course will offer a unique retrospective of  Jewish voting patterns in 20th century presidential elections. Did Jews across the economic spectrum and in different places share the same interests? What  issues motivated the majority--and minority--of Jewish voters to prefer certain presidential candidates over others? Which elections were most divisive in the Jewish community and why?   In what influential roles did American Jews serve in various administrations? The answers may surprise you!

Week 1: Teddy Roosevelt to Herbert Hoover 

Week 2:  Franklin D. Roosevelt to Gerald Ford

Week 3: Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton

 

 THURSDAYS, 10:00-11:30am (ET)

 Dates:  Nov. 7, 14, 21 

 About the Instructor:
 
 
Marsha B. Cohen, Ph.D. is an independent scholar, researcher and writer, who holds Melton’s Deborah and Michael Troner Endowed Faculty Chair. She earned her PhD in International Relations from Florida International University and taught for over a decade, specializing in the Middle East and North Africa and the Role of Religion in World Affairs. Marsha received her BA in Political Philosophy from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Marsha has been teaching for the Department of Adult Learning & Growth as part of the Melton faculty for 20 plus years. 
 
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