Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
Short introductory lectures which may include some group work/participation
Seminars focusing on the detailed reading and analysis of primary sources – these could be texts, images or objects
Learning activities include:
In depth analysis of primary sources
Preparatory reading and individual study
Individual participation in seminars, group work and short presentations on seminar themes
Discussion in seminars will help you to develop your ideas on a topic, to analyse a range of source material and to articulate a critical argument.
Study time
Type |
Hours |
Lecture |
12 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions |
36 |
Wider reading or practice |
17 |
Completion of assessment task |
72 |
Seminar |
12 |
Tutorial |
1 |
Total study time |
150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Werner Bergmann (2002). Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History.
Michael A. Meyer et al (eds.) (1996-2000). German-Jewish History in Modern Times.
Marion Kaplan (1991). The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany.
Amos Elon (2004). The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933.
Ritchie Robertson (ed.) (1999). The German-Jewish Dialogue.
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.
Peter Pulzer (1988). The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria.
Helmut Walser Smith (ed.) (2001). Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914.
Steven E. Aschheim (1982). Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923.
Sander Gilman and J. Zipes (eds.) (1997). Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture.
Michael Brenner, Vicki Caron and Uri R. Kaufman (eds.) (2003). Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models.
Nils H. Roemer (2005). Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith.
Jacob Katz (1978). Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870.
Peter Pulzer (1992). Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933.
Paul Mendes-Flohr (1999). German Jews: A Dual Identity.
George Mosse (1985). German Jews beyond Judaism.
Mordechai Breuer (1992). Modernity Within Tradition: The Social History of Orthodox Jewry in Imperial Germany.
Michael Brenner (1991). The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany.
Till van Rahden (2008). Jews and other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity, and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860-1925.
Jehuda Reinharz and Walter Schatzberg (eds.) (1985). The Jewish Response to German Culture: From the Enlightenment to the Second World War.
Shulamit Volkov (2006). Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation.
Rainer Liedtke and David Rechter (eds.) (2003). Towards Normality? Acculturation and Modern German Jewry.
Werner E. Mosse (1987). Jews in the German Economy: The German-Jewish-Economic Elite, 1820-1935.
Neil Gregor, Nils Roemer, Mark Roseman (eds.) (2006). German History from the Margins.
David Sorkin (1987). The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840.