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Lecturer(s)
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Visi Tamás, doc. Ph.D., M.A.
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Course content
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Hebrew Sources: Medieval and Early Modern Moravia Introduction 1. Rabbis and rabbinic institutions in Moravia (Reading: Miller, Rabbis and Revolution, 11-59) 2. Halakhic responsa literature and its usage in historical researches (Reading: R. Menahem Krochmal on slivovice, ShuT Tzemah Tzedeq, no. 51) Community Affairs 3. Dividing taxes (Reading: Maharam me-Rothenburg, "Prague responsa," no. 131) 4. Persecution and regional authority (Reading: Israel Bruna, Responsa no. 268) 5. Prestige and its representation: decorating the aron ha-qodesh in a synagogue (Reading: Tzemah Tzedeq, no. 50 6. When people disregard the taqqanot (Reading: Tzemah Tzedeq, no. 73) 7. Every rabbi is equal, but some are more equal (Mordecai Benet, ShuT Har ha-mor, no. 11) Marriage and Sexual Discipline 8. Marriage contracts in the kingdom of Bohemia (Yitzhak ha-Lavan, Tosafot ad Ketubbot 55a and Rashi in Or zarua, Baba Kama I, 85) 9. A mentally ill wife or is bigamy permitted? (Reading: Tzemah Tzedeq, no. 67) 10. The Unfaithful Rebetzin (Reading: Tzemah Tzedeq no. 79) 11. Incest during war times (Reading Tzemah Tzedeq no. 40) War, Refugees, Agunot 12. In the wake of the Chmelnicky pogroms: Solving an aguna case (Reading: Tzemah Tzedeq, no. 78) 13. The Thirty Year War's Impact on the Kashrut of Wine (Reading: Tzemah Tzedeq, no. 33) 14. Integrating the refugees: the divorce and the new marriage of a young man (Reading: Tzemah Tzedeq, no. 70)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work
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Learning outcomes
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Besides outlining the most important events, dates, and concepts of Moravan Jewish history the students will encounter each of the major types of Hebrew sources through selected passages. The students should also do their first attempts in academic writing partly on topics related to Moravian Jewish history and partly on their own MA research topic.
Reading and translating Hebrew and Judeo-German texts with the help of English translation. Ability to contextualize persons and events within the broader framework of Jewish life (including legal institutions) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Prerequisites
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This seminar is for all the students of the Jewish Studies and for all the other students who would be interested. Presuppositions: min. one year Hebrew studies
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay
Participation (25%), short essays during semester (25%), a longer essay being the first version of a chapter of the student's future MA thesis (50%)
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Recommended literature
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David Oppenheim. (1982). Nishal David. Jerusalem.
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Y. Eden. (1952). Torat ha-qenaot. Altona.
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Y. Hailperlin, ed. (1952). Takkanot Medinat Mehren. Jerusalem.
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