UGS 303: Jerusalem / Kaplan

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Note that the following list is not a complete list of potential topics but only a suggestive list of sample topics. Feel free to come up with another topic that interests you and/or discuss topic selection with the professor or your teaching assistant.

1. Reconstructing the Jewish Quarter after 1967
2. Jerusalem after 1967
3. The Size and Status of Jerusalem during the 10^thCentury B.C.E.
4. The British Mandate and Jerusalem
5. Jerusalem during World War I
6. The First Intifada and Jerusalem
7. The Development of Jerusalem in the 19^thCentury
8. Yad Vashem
9. Demography and Contemporary Jerusalem
10. Jerusalem during the 1948 War
11. City Planning in Jerusalem After the 1967 War
12. The Size and Status of Jerusalem during the Persian Period
13. The Expansion of Jerusalem in Hezekiah’s Reign
14. Jerusalem and the Crusades
15. Jerusalem and Early Islam
16. Jerusalem and Ancient Egypt
17. The Modern Development of the “Western Wall”
18. East Jerusalem in the 20^thCentury
19. Byzantine Jerusalem
20. Herod and Jerusalem
21. Canaanite Jerusalem