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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
History of Jewish People & Contemporary Jewry
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof Yaron Ben-Naeh
Coordinator Office Hours:
zoom or telephone
Teaching Staff:
Prof Yaron Ben-Naeh
Course/Module description:
What was it like to live as a Jew in Ottoman Jerusalem? The sijil documents are the most likely to provide an answer to that question. During the semester we will be reading together an assortment of documents (relating to various subjects) that were translated to Hebrew by Prof. Amnon Cohen and others.
Course/Module aims:
Knowledge of the Jewish community of Jerusalem in the 16th-19th centuries.
practicing critical reading of historic sources.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
see above.
historic knowledge
critical reading of sources
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
students will read items from bibliographic list and prepare each lesson.
reading sources in class.
Course/Module Content:
see below
Required Reading:
see hebrew list
Additional Reading Material:
Amnon Cohen, A World Within: Jewish Life as Reflected in Muslim Court Records from the Sijil of Jerusalem (XVIth Century), I-II, Philadelphia 1994.
-- , , Economic Life in Ottoman Jerusalem, Jerusalem 1989.
-- , The Guilds of Ottoman Jerusalem, Leiden-Boston-Koeln 2001.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 30 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 20 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 50 %
paper
Additional information:
see Hebrew
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