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HISTORY 283 JEWISH STUDIES 235

HISTORY 283 JEWISH STUDIES 235. JEWS IN MODERN TIMES. Syllabus. http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/BCooperman/Modern/283syllabus.html http://www.history.umd.edu. History 299c. Films Monday 4-6 Le Frak Hall 2205. Communal Authority. Challenges Marranism Benedict Spinoza

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HISTORY 283 JEWISH STUDIES 235

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  1. HISTORY 283JEWISH STUDIES 235 JEWS IN MODERN TIMES

  2. Syllabus • http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/BCooperman/Modern/283syllabus.html • http://www.history.umd.edu

  3. History 299c Films Monday 4-6 Le Frak Hall 2205

  4. Communal Authority • Challenges • Marranism • Benedict Spinoza • Uriel da Costa

  5. Sabbateanism • Sabbetai Sevi (Shabbetai Zevi) • 1665-66 and after • broad appeal • justifying apostasy (Holiness through Sin) • Dönmeh; Frankists • Gershom Scholem

  6. Social Breakdown • Azriel Shohat • class tensions • right of residence • Jacob Katz

  7. (Semi-)Neutral Society • Intellectual space • Masonic Lodges • Mendelssohn and Lessing

  8. Maskil(im) • Haskalah (Enlightenment) • transitive term with biblical origins

  9. Moses Mendelssohn 1728-1786

  10. Moses Mendelssohn 1728-1786 • icon of the new possibilities • for Christians • for Jews • Johann Christian Lavater

  11. Geography • usually understood as West to East transfer • Germany to • Eastern Europe (Poland and Russia) & • Ottoman Empire (Middle East and North Africa) • danger of this simplistic model • local context • agencies of change

  12. Enlightened Expectations • Voltaire • Isaac de Pinto (Sephardic vs Ashkenazic Jewish types) 1762 • portrayal of Jews and Judaism in Encyclopedia is negative • the Enlightenment did not exist in a vacuum

  13. Externality of Enlightenment • for Jews this was both a source of attraction and a limitation • seen as threatening traditional life • is the maskil a radical? conservative?”

  14. Secularization • language • life style • compartmentalization of religion

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