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Introduction to Jewish Studies + Proseminar - AHB400004

Title:	Úvod do studia oboru a proseminář
Guaranteed by:	Department of Middle Eastern Studies (21-KBV)
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts
Actual:	from 2020
Semester:	winter
Points:	2
E-Credits:	3
Examination process:	winter s.:
	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:1/1, --- [HT] summer s.:1/1, C [HT]
Capacity:	winter:unknown / unknown (unknown) summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	cancelled
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:

Guarantor:	doc. PhDr. Jiřina Šedinová, CSc.

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Annotation -

Last update: BVAKUCER (22.05.2008)

Introduction to Hebrew Studies and the Introductory Seminar

Lecturer: Šedinová
Course: Bi-semestral lectures combined with exercises, finished with credit.
Prerequisites: (none)

The students get acquainted with the development of Judaism starting with the post-biblical period; they gain the basic
orientation in the Jewish and Hebrew Studies; they are introduced into methods and technical questions of the subject; they
learn to work with basic aids, i.e. bibliographies, encyclopedias, dictionaries etc. as well as modern ways of information. The
students have to make papers and written essays on given topics.

Literature -

Last update: BVAKUCER (22.05.2008)

Basic secondary literature:
FALL

Židé - d?jiny a kultura (ed. Pavlát, Leo). Praha, Židovské muzeum v Praze, 3. vyd., 2005

Fishbane, M. A.: Judaismus. Zjevení a tradice. Praha, Prostor 2003

Schubert, Kurt: Židovské náboženství v prom?nách v?k?. Praha, Vyšehrad 1995

Segert, Stanislav - Beránek, Karel: Orientalistik an der Prager Universität, I.Teil: 1348-

1848. Praha, Universita Karlova 1967

B?žné bibliografické pom?cky a encyklopedie.

SUMMER

Putík, Alexandr - Šedinová, Ji?ina - Doležalová, Jana: Židovské tradice a zvyky. Praha,

Židovské muzeum v Praze 1995

Putík, Alexandr: Židovské tradice a zvyky: svátky, synagoga a b?h života (pr?vodce

expozicí). Praha, Židovské muzeum v Praze 2005

Cermanová, Iveta - Scheibová, Michaela: Hebrejské zkratky. Výsledky epigrafického

výzkumu textilní sbírky Židovského muzea v Praze. Praha, Židovské muzeum

v Praze 2005

Bialer, Yehuda L. - Fink, Stelle: Jewish Life in Art and Tradition. Jerusalem, Hechal Shlomo

1980

Syllabus -

Last update: BVAKUCER (22.05.2008)

Topics:
FALL SEMESTER

1. Judaism - the system of religion and cultural traditions

2. Calendar:

The traditional Jewish year - months, leap-year,

Jewish holidays, festivals, memorial days,

Conversion of dates into the common era

3. Heuristic: research of sources and literature.

Aids: bibliographies, encyclopedies and dictionaries, biblical and topographic dictionaries,

manuals of chronology;

linguistic aids: dictionaries, concordances;

basic sources of Judaism and their editions: Biblia Hebraica, Talmud Babli

4. Work with sources and literature.

Written sources:

a) archive records according to their origin (Jewish/non-Jewish provenance),

their protection, registres, editions

b) literary (narrative) sources according to their origin (Jewish/non-Jewish provenance)

and genres

5. Work with sources and literature.

Material sources:

a) epigraphica

b) architecture, apllied and decorative art, ritual objects

6. Survey of important periodicals and miscellanies in the field of Hebrew and Jewish studies

7. Criticism in the research of sources

8. Field trip - library of the Jewish Museum in Prague

SUMMER SEMESTER

1. Composition of the research results - writing a thesis:

introduction; up-to-date research of the topic; description and textual/objective criticism of

sources; analysis; synthesis; conclusion; scientifical apparatus (footnotes, comments,

quotations); bibliography of sources and literature used; enclosures/illustrations; indexes;

summary; contents.

2. Writing of a report, review, paper

3. Hebrew script:

Square script; cursive; rabbinic script - Rashi; Sephardi and Italian cursive

4. Hebrew abbreviations as used both in traditional writings and in inscriptions

5. Hebrew script - manuscripts and ancient prints

6. Hebrew painted script (on earthenware, China, glass)

7. Hebrew engraved and relief script (in gravestone inscriptions)

8. Hebrew engraved script (on silver, brass, and pewter objects)

9. Hebrew embroidered script (on textile)

10. Field trip - exhibitions of the Jewish Museum in Prague