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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
History of Jewish People & Contemporary Jewry
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Elisheva Baumgarten
Coordinator Office Hours:
m 10-11
Teaching Staff:
Prof Elisheva Baumgarten
Course/Module description:
The past 50 years have seen a broad move from a spiritual and intellectual history of Jews to a social history, in line with developments in current historiography. However, alongside this change, following Salo Baron, Jacob Katz and others, there has also been a move to an anti-lachrymose history, centered on embeddedness and entanglement. More recently, there has been a return to what some have called a "neo-lachrymose" narrative. This course will seek to follow the different narratives and their theoretical contributions alongside an in depth look at sources and the applicability of different models.
Course/Module aims:
historiographical knowledge, analysis of sources and of their limitations
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
analytical paper that surveys and summarizes historiography
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
frontal, student presentations, visit to museums and their analysis
Course/Module Content:
syllabus is preliminary and subject to change:
We will begin by reading 19th century histories of medieval Jews (Graetz, Berliner, Gudemann)
then we will read Salo Baron, Social and Religious History of the Jews and discussions of his work, for example Elisheva Carlebach's critique of Baron, ‘Between Universal and Particular: Baron’s Jewish Community in Light of Recent Research’, AJS Review 38, no. 02 (2014): 417–21
From Baron we will read Jacob Katz, Tradition and Crisis or Exclusiveness and Tolerance. From there, based on the participants' interests we will outline the rest of the reading list.
Required Reading:
see above
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 15 %
Participation in Tutorials 15 %
Project work 35 %
Assignments 35 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
Required reading will be 40-80 pages every wekk.
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