@article{Burstein_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Why a Syllabus Collection in the Sociology of Jewry?}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/why-a-syllabus-collection-in-the-sociology-of-jewry}, abstractNote={I could say the motivation is a kind of professional public-spiritedness, wanting to help fellow sociologists with their teaching. And that was my initial motivation. But as I collected syllabi and looked carefully at what’s in them, I concluded that the task is more important and more interesting than I originally believed. The syllabi collected here reflect the field (imperfectly, no doubt) but they will also influence it. The syllabi will affect what is taught in future courses on Jews. These courses will influence our students, whose understanding of Jews may influence the views of their friends, relatives, neighbors, and co-workers. And a small proportion of the students will become sociologists of Jewry themselves; what they learn in their first courses on Jews may very well affect their research agendas and what future generations know about Jewry.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Burstein, Paul}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }