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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Kateřina Čapková, Ph.D. (29.09.2018)
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Kateřina Čapková, Ph.D. (14.02.2019)
Disscussions over the newest approaches in the research of modern Jewish history. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Kateřina Čapková, Ph.D. (14.02.2019)
Assessment components: · participation Participation is a vital component in determining your final grade. We will meet once in two weeks and each session will have 95 minutes. The seminar has sessions with guest speakers and sessions lead by Kateřina Čapková. In case of sessions without a guest speakers students are obliged to complete reading assignment and to come to class with ideas, insights, and/or questions. The success of the class depends upon everyone arriving prepared, remaining open to other’s ideas, and offering arguments based upon on a thorough understanding of the assignments and lectures. · seminar paper on a topic from the field of modern Jewish history of student’s choice In case of a “zkouška” corresponding with 5 points the seminar paper should have about 3 000 words including footnotes. In case of a “zápočet” corresponding with 3 points the seminar paper can have only about 2 000 words. The seminar paper can be written in English or in Czech. More details will be discussed during the course. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Kateřina Čapková, Ph.D. (25.02.2019)
All the sessions take place in the library of CEFRES – Na Florenci 3 Program of the course in the summer semester 2019: In contrast to the winter semester there will be a change in the structure of the course! All students are obliged to visit guest lectures and next to this the course will be taught as a bloc seminar (in two days, in two Fridays in May). All the details will be discussed at the first session of the course which will take place at the library of CEFRES, Na Florenci 3 on 19 February at 5:30 pm. Please do not miss this session. Guest lectures in spring 2019: 5 March Laura Hobson Faure (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3) 2 April Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences) 30 April Macos Silber (Haifa University) 14 May Carmen Reichert (Augsburg University) For more details about those lectures, please see http://www.jewishhistory.usd.cas.cz/
Bloc seminars will take place on 17 May and on 24 May from 9am to 12:30, we will meet at the library of CEFRES Topics of the bloc seminars: 17 May: Jewish nationalisms 24 May: Jews under Communism Students will have to read several primary sources and secondary literature in advance. Texts will be sent to students by the end of April.
Program of the course in the winter semester 2018/2019:
guest lecture: Karolina Szymaniak (University of Wroclaw and Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw) Minority Perspective and the Trouble with Liberal Discourses. For an abstract see:
Required reading: Jonathan Webber: Representing Jewish Culture: The Problem of Boundaries, in: Simon J. Bronner (ed.), Framing Jewish Culture: Boundaries and Representations, Jewish Cultural Studies, vol. 4, 2014, 33-76. 6 November 2018 guest lecture Marcin Wodzinski (University of Wroclaw) What is Hasidism? For an abstract see: http://www.jewishhistory.usd.cas.cz/colloquia/what-is-hasidism/
Required reading: Moshe Rosman, Founder of Hasidism. A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov. Oxford: Littmann 2013 (Introduction to the Paperback Edition – XIII – LVII - you can skip the subchapter on Sources reconsidered which is rather for specialists; and Chapter 11 – A Person of His Time 173- 186). Please come to the sessions with your notes from this reading. The topic of the sessions on 6 and 20 November is both related to Hasidism. Please consider reading the parts of Moshe Rosman’s book before going to the lecture of Marcin Wodzinski. It would help you to raise relevant questions. We will also discuss what are the specifics of academic research in the field of Jewish history.
guest lecture Agnieszka Wierzcholska (Osteuropainstitut, Freie Universität, Berlin) For an abstract see: http://www.jewishhistory.usd.cas.cz/colloquia/microhistories-from-a-polish-jewish-town-1918-1956/
Required reading: Doris L. Bergen, I Am (Not) to Blame: Intent and Agency in Personal Accounts of the Holocaust. Lessons and Legacies XII, ed. by Lower, Wendy, Rossi, Lauren Faulkner, Northwestern University Press, 2017, 87-107.
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