To Study:

1. Prepare from the lecture notes and then from the readings



2. Model questions:

1. Discuss the difficulty of periodizing Jewish history generally and the Early Modern Period in particular. How does the issue of periodization come up in treatment of anti-Jewish prejudice in this period?
   
2. What significant changes occur in the Jewish economic patterns of activity in our period and how do these affect Jewish settlement patterns?
   
3. What factors lead to the creation of ghettos in our period? How do these ghettos differ from those of earlier periods?
   
4. What do we mean when we speak of the demonization of the Jew in this period? How do the events at Trent reflect this? In terms of the social agents whose actions and influence led to the Trent executions, what is characteristically Early Modern about the events?
   
5. What factors lead to the creation of more elaborate Kehillot in the Early Modern period? What are the functions, strengths and limits of the various kinds of Jewish communal organization?