Mobility and Modernity - bmc.HEBR.B207.001.F26
Section outline
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Office Hours
Room 217
Tuesday: 1:00-2:00
Thursday: 1:00-2:00
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Meeting 1 (9/1)
Introduction: History, Reading, and Discussion Strategies
Meeting 2 (9/3)
Readings:
1. William Safran. "Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 1, no. 1 (1991): 83-99
2. Leslie Page Moch. “Putting Migration into History” in Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003).
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Meeting 1 (9/8)
Readings:
1. Leslie Page Moch, “Migration in Pre-Industrial Europe,” in Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650.
2. Francesca Trivellato. “Livorno and the Western Sephardic Diaspora” in The Familiarity of Strangers. The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period (2012).
Meeting 2 (9/10)
Readings:
3. Glikl: Memoirs, 1691-1719, trans. Chava Turniansky, (2019), pg. 99-146.
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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)
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Meeting 1 (9/22)
Readings:
1. Sarah Eskandari, "Tohfeye Ziyarat (Souvenir of Pilgrimage): Religious Mobility and Public Health in Late Qajar Iran, c. 1890–1904" Iranian Studies,1-23.
2. Y. Barnay “Immigration to Palestine in the Eighteenth Century” in The Jews in Palestine in the Eighteenth Century: Under the Patronage of the Istanbul Committee of Officials for Palestine (1992)
Meeting 2 (9/24)
Readings:
1. Solomon Maimon. The Autobiography of Soloman Maimon (1888), Ch. 1-22.
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Meeting 1 (9/29)
1. Aviva Ben Ur, “From Immigrants to Rooted Migrants” in Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).
2. Owen Stanwood, “Between Eden and Empire: Huguenot Refugees and the Promise of New Worlds,” American Historical Review, 118:5 (December 2013).
Meeting 2 (10/1)
Readings:
3. John Toland, “Reasons for Naturalising the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland on the Same Footing with All Other Nations,” (1714).