JWST372

Jewry of Muscle: Zionism and Jewish Masculinity

Part of the Zionist cultural project involved creating a new Jewish masculinity that would replace the diasporic "sissy Jew" with a strong, healthy new "Jewry of Muscle." Using literary and cinematic sources, we will analyze how these Zionist and Israeli cultural productions served to build (and sometimes undermine) this new model of Jewish masculinity.

Fall 2025

Shirelle Doughty

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Spring 2025

Shirelle Doughty

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Past Semesters

Shirelle Doughty

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.53 between 47 students*

A-: 14.89%

A: 31.91%

A+: 31.91%

B-: 2.13%

B+: 2.13%

C-: 2.13%

C: 2.13%

C+: 2.13%

D: 2.13%

F: 2.13%

W: 2.13%

other: 4.26%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.