Spain - Turkey Syllabus

Kivunim: Civilization 5770/2009-2010 Academic Write-up
UNIT III – Spain/Turkey
Main Lecturers: Renee Levine Melammed, Yaron Ben Naeh, Alon Liel
Teaching Assistant: Josh Weinberg

Session 1: Mon. Jan. 25th (13:30-14:30) – Debrief from Morocco - TA

Session 2: Wednesday January 27, 2010 (14:30-15:30 - 15:45-16:45)
Prof. Renée Levine Melammed

Introduction: A History of the Jews in Spain

Pre-Islamic Era
Reading:
• Yitzhak Baer, A History of the Jews in Christian Spain, 1, 1-22. JPS: Philadelphia, 1961 (1st ed.); 1992 (2nd ed.).

The Islamic Conquest - 15:45-16:45
• Eliyahu Ashtor, “The Conquest of Spain,” The Jews of Moslem Spain, 1, 3-42, 407-410. JPS: Philadelphia, 1973.

Thursday Jan. 28th (15:00-16:00) – TA Session

Session 3: “The Golden Age of Spain”
Monday Feb. 1st (16:00-17:30)
Reading:
• “Al-Andalus: The So-Called ‘Golden Age’ of Spanish Jewry” – Menachem Ben Sasson
• Eliyahu Ashtor, “Hasdai ibn Shaprut,” The Jews of Moslem Spain, op. cit., 1, 155-227, 419-428.


Session 4: The Reconquista
Wed. February 3rd (14:30-15:30) (15:45-16:45)
Reading:
• Jonathan Ray, The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia, 1-35. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Christian Rule and Convivencia (15:45-16:45)
• Haim Beinart, "The Jews of Castile," in Moreshet Sepharad: The Sephardi Legacy, op. cit., 1: 11-41, ed. H. Beinart. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1992.
• Yom Tov Assis, "The Jews in the Crown of Aragon and its Dominions," ibid., 1: 44-102.


Session 5: T.A. Session
Thurs. Feb 4th (15:00-16:00)

Session 6: The Conversos and the Inquisition
Mon. Feb 8th (16:00-17:30)
Reading:
• Haim Beinart, “The Great Conversion and the Converso Problem,” in Moreshet Sepharad, op. cit., 1: 346-382.
• Michael Glatzer, “Pablo de Santa Maria on the Events of 1391,” Antisemitism through the Ages, ed. Shmuel Almog, 127-137. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1988.
Session 7: The Expulsion of the Jews and the Moslem Experience
Wed. February 10th (14:30-15:30) (15:45-16:45)
Reading:
• Haim Beinart, “The Expulsion from Spain: Causes and Results,” in Moreshet Sepharad, op. cit., 2: 11-42.
• Note: “Edict of Expulsion”, pp. 28-31.

The Sephardi Diaspora – (15:45-16:45)
• Renée Levine Melammed, “The Portuguese Experience” and “Italy,” in A Question of Identity: Iberian Conversos in Historical Perspective, 51-67, 187-193; 109-133, 203-209. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Session 8: T.A Session
Thurs. Feb 11th (15:00-16:00)


Session 9: An Introduction to Turkey and the Ottoman Empire
Mon. Feb 15th (12:00-13:00)
Reading:
• “The Ottomans”: http://wsu.edu/~dee/OTTOMAN/OTTOMAN1.HTM
• Maps: http://www.naqshbandi.org/ottomans/maps/default.htm
http://lexicorient.com/e.o/atlas/h-ottomans.htm


Session 10: The Jews of the Ottoman Empire - Prof Yaron Ben Naeh
Wed. Feb. 17th (14:30-15:30) (15:45-16:45)
Reading:
• Chapter • 12 • The Ottoman Jews p. 256
• Aspects in the character of Ottoman Jewry. Dr. Yaron Ben-Naeh
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Session 11: T.A. Session
Thurs. Feb 18th (15:00-16:00)


Session 12: Israel-Turkey Relations from 1947-2010. Dr. Alon Liel
Mon. Feb 22nd (12:00-13:00)
Reading:
• “Turkey–Israel - Relations under Severe Strain” Dr. Alon Liel
• “The Strategic Depth Doctrine of Turkish Foreign Policy” – Alexander Murinson
Session 13: Israel-Turkey Relations Continued – Dr. Alon Liel
Wed. Feb. 24th (14:30-15:30) (15:45-16:45)

Session 14: T.A. Session
Thurs. Feb. 25th (15:00-16:00)

March 2nd – Leave for Spain!