HIS208Y – History of the Jewish People

Readings for Week of Sept 30th

For those students having trouble finding a copy of Marcus’ anthology, I found some of the sources available on the internet. Some were available on the Google Books edition of Marcus’ anthology while others are scans from another university. Let me know if you have any trouble accessing these. There are also a number of copies of the sourcebook in the library system.

Primary sources:

#38 – Jewish Autonomy in Babylon, c. 1168 [also as a pdf]

#57 – Saadia, 882-942 [pdf]

#58 – Paltiel of Egypt, about 952-976

#59 – Samuel Ha-Nagid

#62 – Maimonides [pdf]

#73 – A Jewish Merchant in Arabia

#75 – Maimonides on Art & Charity [pdf]