19th Century History (General) [2900-L-CHG19-ANG-OG] Semestr letni 2021/22
Konwersatorium, grupa nr 1

Jerusalem and Palestine: imaginaries, international politics, and modernisation processes

1. Introductory classes. Course outline, secondary sources, teaching methods, criteria for assessment and successful course completion

Part I: Collective imagination and international politics

2. Three religions, one center. Meaning of Jerusalem for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Primary sources: Yehudah Alakalai, The Third Redemption (1843), in: Arthur Hertzberg, The Zionist Idea. A Historical Analysis and Reader, New York 1960, s. 105-107 and other sources

Secondary sources: Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem. Biography (parts); Lee I. Levine, Jerusalem in Jewish history, tradition, and memory, in: Tamar Mayer, Suleiman Ali Mourad (eds.), Jerusalem. Idea and reality, London-New York 2008, pp. 39-45; A. Niccacci, Jerusalem for the Three Monotheistic Religions, in: Jerusalem: House of Prayer for All Peoples in the Three Monotheistic Religions, Jerusalem 2001, pp. 163-175

3. Europe in Jerusalem

Primary sources: Iconography: Lily Arad, Realising a Dream. Emperor Franz Joseph I and his peoples at the Austrian Hospice in Jerusalem, in: Markus Bugnyar, Helmut Wohnout (Eds.), At Home in the Orient – The Austrian Hospice in Jerusalem, Vienna 2015, pp. 251-280

Secondary sources: Roberto Mazza, Jerusalem: From the Ottomans to the British, London-New York 2009, pp. 75-77, 84-88; Simon S. Montefiore, Jerusalem (chapter 37)

4. Jerusalem in the international policy. Struggles over the protection over sacred places

Primary sources: Press articles and iconography concerning the visit of Wilhelm II in Jerusalem (1898), provided by the teacher

Secondary sources: Ulrich Trumpener, Germany and the End of the Ottoman Empire, in: The Great Powers and the End of the Ottoman Empire, Marian Kent (Ed.), London 2006, pp. 106-126

5. Zionism

Primary source: Theodor Herzl, Jewish state (parts)

Secondary source: Anita Shapira, History of Israel (parts)

6. Beginnings of the Jewish settlements. New territories, new society, ‘new Jews’

Primary sources: The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine: a Critical Edition, Mark A. Raider, Miriam B. Raider-Roth (Eds.), Hanover 2002 (parts); maps provided by the teacher

Secondary sources: Gur Alroey, An Unpromising Land: Jewish Migration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century, Stanford 2014, s. 36-61; Anita Shapira, History of Israel (parts)

7. Arab population of Palestine in the 19th century. Arab-Jewish relations

Primary sources: Texts provided by the teacher

Secondary sources: Yuval Ben-Bassat, Proto-Zionist–Arab Encounters in Late Nineteenth-Century Palestine: Socioregional Dimensions, “Journal of Palestine Studies” 38/ 2 (Winter 2009), pp. 42–63; Gudrun Krämer, History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel, Princeton 2011, pp. 120-127

Part III. Space and its perceptions

8. Urban development of Jerusalem in the 19th century

Primary source: Plans of Jerusalem provided by the teacher

Secondary sources: Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, The Growth of Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Jun., 1975), pp. 252-269; Jeff Halper, On the Way: The Transition of Jerusalem From a Ritual to Colonial City (1800-1917), “Urban Anthropology” Vol. 13, No. 1, Israeli Anthropologists and Sociologists (Spring, 1984), pp. 1-32; Roberto Mazza, Jerusalem: From the Ottomans to the British, London-New York 2009, pp. 22-25

9. Journeys to Palestine. The beginnings of the modern tourism

Primary source: Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad (parts)

Secondary sources: Doron Bar, Kobi Cohen-Hattab, A New Kind of Pilgrimage: The Modern Tourist Pilgrim of Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Palestine, „Middle Eastern Studies”, Vol. 39, No. 2 (2003), pp. 131-148

10.-11. Jerusalem and Palestine in the 19th-century paintings and photographs

Primary source: Iconography provided by the teacher

Secondary source: Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, Painting the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century, Jerusalem 1997 (parts); Issam Nassar, Photographing Jerusalem: The Image of the City in Nineteenth-Century Photography, Boulder 1997 (parts); Kathleen Stewart Howe, Revealing the Holy Land: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Palestine, in: Revealing the Holy Land: The Photographic Exploration of Palestine, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London 1997, pp. 16-46

Additional, optional material: https://www.iijs.columbia.edu/news-1/2021/1/26/iijshome-on-turning-local-sites-into-global-sights-when-zionist-politics-met-photography

Part V: Twentieth century

12. Balfour Declaration – context, content and consequences

Primary source: Balfour Declaration

Secondary source: Avi Shlaim, Israel and Palestine. Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations, London-New York 2010, pp. 3-24

13. Jerusalem in the international debates

Primary sources: The UN Resolutions provided by the teacher

Secondary source: Menachem Klein, Jerusalem As an Israeli Problem – A Review of Fourty Years of Israeli Rule over Arab Jerusalem, „Israel Studies” vol. 13, No. 2, 2008, pp. 54-72; N. Sybesma-Knol, Palestine and The United Nations, w: Palestine and International Law: Essays on Politics and Economics, S. R. Silverburg (Ed.), London 2009 (parts)

14. Current face of the conflict: embassies

Primary source: US President's Statement of 6 December 2017

Secondary sources: Mick Dumper, The U.S. Embassy Move to Jerusalem: Mixed Messages and Mixed Blessings for Israel?, ”Review of Middle East Studies, Vol. 53, No. 1 (June 2019), pp. 34-45; Alexander Koensler, Cristina Papa, Political tourism in the Israeli-Palestinian space, “Anthropology Today” vol. 27, no. 2 (April 2011), pp. 13-17

15. Student presentations. Concluding remarks