Jewish Residential Segregation and Urban Life: A Historical Examination - Prof. Bernard D., Exams of World History

Download Jewish Residential Segregation and Urban Life: A Historical Examination - Prof. Bernard D. and more Exams World History in PDF only on Docsity! Jew in the City Fall Term 2005 Final Take-Home Examination Due in Dr. Cooperman’s mailbox in the History Dept. by 10:00 am, 12/21. Please have your exam answers time-stamped by someone in the History office. Please note: You are encouraged to use your notes, your texts, the library, the web, newspapers and journals or any other resource in the preparation of your answers to this examination. However, you may not prepare your answers together with anyone else. You may not consult a classmate (or anyone else, other than the professor) on how to approach the questions or how to frame the answer. Your answers should be typed and double spaced. The total number of pages submitted may not exceed 8. Of course, you may assign as much space as you wish to any given answer. Be guided by the number of points assigned to the question. Please hand write and sign the University of Maryland Pledge of Honor on a separate sheet attached to the exam: “I pledge on my honor that I have not given or received any unauthorized assistance on this examination.” I. (50%) Answer one. 1. How and why are residentially segregated neighborhoods formed in cities? Drawing on at least three different locales and time periods, describe patterns of Jewish residential concentration and/or segregation, explain the motive forces or conditions that led to their creation, and evaluate the extent to which these are shaped by external or internal factors. 2. The city, perhaps the greatest artifact produced by man, is often understood as a concrete representation of deeply held social values. Discuss with reference to Jewish history. Your answer should elaborate on at least three different areas or themes where this understanding is operative. Your answer could, for example, touch upon the relation between the urban and the sacred, the function of monumental architecture, the narratives of urban history, the social organization of urban space, literary representations of urban life, etc. 3. The debate over the political future of Jerusalem is in fact a debate over the nature of civic life. Discuss with reference to aspects of urban life illustrated in at least three times and/or places other than contemporary Jerusalem. [A good answer will try to put present