Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- evaluate different scholarly approaches to the study of Jewish life in Germany
- analyze primary and secondary sources in the framework of Jewish history and culture
- integrate textual analysis with secondary research
- show a critical understanding of the nature of minority-majority relations
- make connections between political, social, and cultural developments and the formation of identities
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- produce coherent and well-argued written work
- work confidently with library, archival and virtual sources as appropriate
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- different academic approaches to Jewish history and culture
- the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in Germany
- the transformation of Jewish life during the long 19th and early 20th centuries
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Completion of assessment task | 72 |
Wider reading or practice | 17 |
Seminar | 12 |
Tutorial | 1 |
Lecture | 12 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 36 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Peter Pulzer (1988). The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria.
Jehuda Reinharz and Walter Schatzberg (eds.) (1985). The Jewish Response to German Culture: From the Enlightenment to the Second World War.
Michael Brenner and Derek J. Penslar (eds.) (1998). In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918-1933.
Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz (eds.) (1995). The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History.
Michael A. Meyer et al (eds.) (1996-2000). German-Jewish History in Modern Times.
Jacob Katz (1978). Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870.
George Mosse (1985). German Jews beyond Judaism.
Amos Elon (2004). The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933.
Werner E. Mosse (1987). Jews in the German Economy: The German-Jewish-Economic Elite, 1820-1935.
Ritchie Robertson (ed.) (1999). The German-Jewish Dialogue.
Sander Gilman and J. Zipes (eds.) (1997). Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture.
Peter Pulzer (1992). Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933.
Shulamit Volkov (2006). Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation.
Helmut Walser Smith (ed.) (2001). Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914.
Nils H. Roemer (2005). Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith.
Rainer Liedtke and David Rechter (eds.) (2003). Towards Normality? Acculturation and Modern German Jewry.
Paul Mendes-Flohr (1999). German Jews: A Dual Identity.
Mordechai Breuer (1992). Modernity Within Tradition: The Social History of Orthodox Jewry in Imperial Germany.
Till van Rahden (2008). Jews and other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity, and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860-1925.
David Sorkin (1987). The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840.
Steven E. Aschheim (1982). Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923.
Michael Brenner, Vicki Caron and Uri R. Kaufman (eds.) (2003). Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models.
Michael Brenner (1991). The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany.
Marion Kaplan (1991). The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany.
Werner Bergmann (2002). Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History.
Neil Gregor, Nils Roemer, Mark Roseman (eds.) (2006). German History from the Margins.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 40% |
Essay | 60% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 60% |
Written assignment | 40% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External