Section outline

  • Meeting 1 (9/15)

     Readings:

    1.     Adam Teller, Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2020), pg. 23-61. 

    2.     Nicholas Terpstra, Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation (2015), pg. 1-7; 105-132. 

    Meeting 2 (9/17) 

    Readings:

    1.     Rabbi Nathan Hanover, Abyss of Despair, (Yeven Metzulah) (1648-1658).

    2.     Diderot, “Refugees” in The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert (1765)