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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2017 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Rachele Scuro (rachele.scuro@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | During the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period Jews comprised the main religious minority within Europe. They shared their lives and spaces with the Christian majority since the later Ancient era and their diaspora. In a social and institutional context deeply permeated - also in the political, cultural and moral spheres - by one dominant religion, they were a fringe group inserted in the societas christiana not without contradictions and conflicts. Nonetheless they were able to survive and find their place by means of strong cultural, religious, familial and economic bonds despite their dispersion and small number. Despised, repeatedly banished and persecuted, but also needed by the majority (even as a living proof of its religious beliefs), the Jews developed strategies of survival and coexistence in that environment, but at the same time the latter also influenced them. In other words, while sharing everywhere their position as outsiders, they were affected by the distinctive social, economic, political and cultural environment they lived in, too. Also, the fragmentation of the Jewish families and communities around the entire Mediterranean basin and through large part of the continent led to a progressive diversification within the minority itself, not only in terms of language, cultural reference points and professional specialisation, but also of rite. It is therefore more correct to talk about minorities and to avoid the idea of one homogeneous minority. The course will explore the history of the Jewish communities living in Europe from the Medieval period till the 16th century, with a particular focus on the Western and Mediterranean areas. Using thematic issues as starting points (such as the Jewish economic role and professions in the Medieval and Renaissance context, their relationship with the ruling class, gender and family history, social coexistence with the Christian world and with Islam in the case of Al-Andalus, different residential segregations in juderias and later in ghettos, etc.) the aim is to outline how Jews of Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Italian traditions dealt with their position on the margin of the European Christian society and were able (or not) to develop successful approaches of agreement - or at least coexistence - with the Christian biculturalism they were living in. It will also examine how Jewish minorities interacted with and differed from one another, especially in the case of areas of cohabitation in small groups, such as Renaissance Italy. |
| Literatur | • Juden in der christlichen Umwelt während des späten Mittelalters, hrsg. von A. Haverkamp und F.-J. Ziwes, Dunker & Humblot, Berlin 1992 • The Jews of Early-Modern Venice, B. Ravid (ed.), The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2001 • The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries): Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Speyer, 20-25 October 2002, Ch. Cluse (ed.). Turnhout, Brepols 2004 • Wirtschatftsgeschichte der mittelalterlichen Juden. Fragen und Einschätzungen, hrsg. von M. Toch, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, München 2008 • Zur Geschichte der Juden im Deutschland des späten Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, hrsg. von A. Haverkamp, Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1981 • Simha Goldin, Jewish Women in Europe in the Middle Ages: a quiet Revolution, Manchester University Press, Manchester 2011 • Mark D. Meyerson, A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain, Princeton University Press, Princeton and London 2004 • Ariel Toaff, Love, Work and Death: Jewish Life in Medieval Umbria, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, London 1996 • Michael Toch, Die Juden im mittelalterlichen Reich, Oldenbourg Verlag, München 2013 |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Studierende der Geschichte aller Studienstufen. Bei Überbelegung wird die Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt. in diesem Fall werden Studierende der Geschichte bevorzugt zugelassen. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Deutsch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Grundmodul Frühe Neuzeit (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Grundmodul Mittelalter (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Areas: transnational - global (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Ereignisse, Prozesse, Zusammenhänge (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Forschung und Praxis (Master Studienfach: Osteuropäische Geschichte) Modul Kommunikation und Vermittlung historischer Erkenntnisse (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Methoden - Reflexion - Theorien: Differenz - Identität - Kritik (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Methoden und Diskurse historischer Forschung (Master Studienfach: Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Profil: Renaissance (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Profil: Vormoderne (Master Studiengang: Europäische Geschichte) Modul Theorie und Praxis (Master Studienfach: Osteuropäische Geschichte (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Vertiefung Geschichte (Bachelor Studienfach: Jüdische Studien) Modul Vertiefung Geschichte und Gesellschaft (Bachelor Studienfach: Jüdische Studien (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Wahlbereich Bachelor Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschichte) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master Studienfach: Geschichte) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Aktive Teilnahme |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Departement Geschichte |