Modern History of Europe   (20078)

Degree/study:Grade in Humanities
Year: 3rd.
Term: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication:
Teaching language or languages: catalan
Teaching Staff: Jaume Torras Elias

1. Presentation of the subject

 

With the subtitle Moors and Jews in Christian Europe (15^th-19^th centuries), the course presents a view of this period centered on the relation between the Christian majority and non-Christian minorities. Critical moments in this relation are scrutinized, paying special attention to subjects such as: power and the management of minorities; religion and politics in the birth of modern Europe; difference regarded as a threat; rebelliousness, resistance and adaptation; citizenship and the "Jewish question"

 

2. Competences to be attained

General competences	Specific competences
- Capacity to deal with information from different sources, which might be contradictory, and to synthesise using sound arguments.   - Capacity to propose explanations for very general processes which have different manifestations in different moments and territories.	- Capacity to evaluate and interpret the most relevant moments in the relation between confessional majorities and minorities in the history of Europe in the period studied.   - Capacity to evaluate and order the different factors which have shaped the particular heterophobia in the ideology that has impregnated the European discourses about difference in religion and culture.

3. Contents

 

Jews in Europe

o Who were Jews?

o From Jews to "the Jew": the creation of a stereotype

 

The destruction of Sefarad

o From the forced conversions to the 1492 decrees

o "New" Christians, new problems

 

Mudejars, Moriscos... all of them "moros" ("Moors")

o From Mudejars to Moriscos

o Rebellions, dispersions, expulsion

 

The "German" Jews (Ashkenazi Jews)

o The world of the Yiddish, Shtetl...and Pogrom

o The Court Jews (Hofjuden)

 

Resistance and adaptation

o Mesianisms

o Haskalah: a Jewish Enlightenment

 

The Jewish civil emancipation

o The French Revolution and the "Jewish matter"

o The Jews in the Europe of nations

 

· Anti-Semitisms

o Judeophobia and Arabophobia: only "popular" prejudices?

o A reactionary tradition: the universal Jewish conspiracy

 

*The full version with the sections 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.

 

4. Assessment

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5. Bibliography and teaching resources

5.1. Basic bibliography

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5.2. Complementary bibliography

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5.3. Teaching resources

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6. Metodology

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7. Planning of activities

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