History 402                                                           
     Michael A. Meyer
Spring 1999                                                           
    HUC-JIR, Cincinnati
      
       

Medieval and Modern European Jewish History

Required Texts:  Jacob R. Marcus, The Jew in the Medieval World
    Paul Mendes-Flohr & Jehuda Reinharz, The Jew in the  Modern World 
(second edition)
    Michael A. Meyer, The Origins of the Modern Jew

Recommended:  Howard M. Sachar, The Course of Modern Jewish     
History  (1990 edition; for narrative continuity)
    Robert Seltzer, Jewish People, Jewish Thought  (for      students
with little or no background in Jewish      history)
    H.H. Ben Sasson, ed., A History of the Jewish People     (for
students who have already read above works) 

Midterm Exam  A one-hour examination covering the lecture material
    and readings through Topic 14 will be held on Tuesday,     March
16.

Term Paper   A paper of about ten pages will be due on May 13.  Its
purpose is to enable you to pursue in greater depth a limited problem
of your own choosing.  After you have had an opportunity to consider
your area of special interest, you should see the instructor in Study
311 to discuss the exact topic and the sources to be used.  In
addition to the works mentioned above, the following  books may be
helpful in selecting a subject:

Mark Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross:  The Jews in the Middle Ages
Jane Gerber, The Jews of Spain
Guido Kisch, The Jews in Medieval Germany
Robert Chazan, Medieval Jewry in Northern France
Solomon Grayzel, The Church and the Jews in the XIIIth Century
Louis Finkelstein, Jewish Self-Government in the Middle Ages
Salo Baron, A Social and Religious History of the Jews , Vols. 3-18
Yosef Shatzmiller, Shylock Reconsidered
Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
Cecil Roth, The Jews in the Renaissance
Gershom Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi
Moshe Idel, Hasidism Between Ecstasy and Magic
Jacob Katz, Tradition and Crisis
The Life of Gl=FCckel of Hameln  (autobiography)
Selma Stern, The Court Jew
Cecil Roth, A History of the Jews in England
Todd Endelman, The Jews of Georgian England
Marvin Lowenthal, The Jews of Germany
Bernard Weinryb, The Jews of Poland
Raphael Mahler, A History of Modern Jewry, 1780-1815
Michael A. Meyer, Jewish Identity in the Modern World
Arthur Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews
Transactions of the Parisian Sanhedrin
Simeon J. Maslin, ed., Selected Documents of Napoleonic Jewry
Phyllis C. Albert, The Modernization of French Jewry
Simon Dubnow, History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, 3 vols.
Michael Stanislawski, Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews
Salo Baron, The Russian Jew under Tsars and Soviets
Lucy Dawidowicz, The Golden Tradition
Maurice Samuel, Blood Accusation
Ezra Mendelsohn, The Jews of East Central Europe
Arthur Hertzberg, ed., The Zionist Idea
Walter Laqueur, A History of Zionism
Jacob Katz, From Prejudice to Destruction
Mark Wischnitzer, To Dwell in Safety
Norman A. Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands . 2 vols.
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews
Lucy Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945
Howard M. Sachar, A History of Israel

Final Exam A two-hour examination covering the material of the entire
course, but concentrating on the portion studied since the midterm,
will be held during the final examination period.

Outline of Lecture Titles and Assignments

(Relevant readings should be completed before the corresponding
lecture to facilitate comprehension and discussion.  More or less than
a single topic may be covered at one session.)

Introduction:  The Problem of Recovering and Construing the Jewish
Past

1. In the Muslim East  (Marcus, 13-15, 185-88, 233-240, 287-91, 355-59

2. In Visigothic and Muslim Spain (Marcus, 20-22, 227-32)

3. In Muslim Spain:  The Golden Age (Marcus, 297-300, 306-10, 364-66,
373-77)

4.   In Christian Spain (Marcus, 34-40, 189-92)

5. In Feudal Europe (Marcus, 24-33, 41-50, 115-58, 301-305, 311-16,
353-54, 360- 63, 377-78)

6. In the Aftermath of 1492 (Marcus, 51-59, 173-78)

7. Jews in Renaissance Italy (Marcus, 170-72, 193-96, 251-55, 381-410,
418-21)

8. The Ottoman Empire (Marcus, 15-19, 61-65, 200-204, 256-60, 317-22,
411-17)

9. The Rise of Polish Jewry (Marcus, 205-11, 327-29, 446-49)

10. Chmielnicki Massacre and Pseudo-Messiah (Marcus, 261-69, 450-66)

11. Hasidism (Marcus 270-83, 343-46; Flohr-Reinharz, 125-27, 316-19)

12. Court Jew and Jewish Vagabond (Marcus, 66-68, 75-79, 84-97,
159-69, 198-99,  212-21, 323-26, 330-33; Flohr-Reinharz, 9-12, 16-19,
50-52; Sachar, I-II)

13. Enlightenment and Emancipation in the West (Meyer, I-III; 
Flohr-Reinharz,  12-16, 25-46, 55-88, 101-24, 127-39, 252-56; Sachar,
III)

14. Romantic Reaction and Reformulation of Identity (Meyer, IV-VI;
Flohr-  Reinharz, 89-100, 182-213, 215-219, 220-25, 226-27, 257-61;
Sachar, V-VII)

15. Under the Tsars (Flohr-Reinharz, 303-9; Sachar, IV & IX)

16. Haskalah in Eastern Europe (Flohr-Reinharz, 310-15, 320-27;
Sachar, X)

17. Jewish Socialism (Flohr-Reinharz, 225-26, 227-31, 327-33, 339-43;
Sachar, XII &  XIV)

18. Eastern Europe to Lower East Side (Flohr-Reinharz, 333-37, 374;
Sachar, XV)

19. The Surge of Antisemitism in the West (Flohr-Reinharz, 262-99;
Sachar, XI)

20. Zionism (Flohr-Reinharz, 219-20, 245-47; Sachar, XIII & XVIII)

21. Jewish Intellectuals (Flohr-Reinharz, 219-20, 245-47; Sachar, XIX)

22. German Jewry in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich
(Flohr-Reinharz,  231-33, 484-504; Sachar, XX)

23. Holocaust (Flohr-Reinharz, 344-53; Sachar, XXI)

24. The Soviet Union and Thereafter (Flohr-Reinharz, 344-53; Sachar,
XVII &   XXIII)

25. The Jews of Yemen

26.   The State of Israel (Flohr-Reinharz, 476-81; Sachar XXII, XXVII,
XXVIII, XXIX)

27. State and Diaspora:  Prospects (Flohr-Reinharz, 414-17, 542;
Sachar XXIV, XXV)