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Lecturer: Šedinová Course: Bi-semestral lectures finished with exam.. Prerequisites: (none) The course gives a complex survey of the historical and cultural development of Jewish communities in the diaspora since the late 1st century up to the World War II. The social and legal position of the Jews in particular countries and periods is stressed as well as the multi-significance of function of the Jewish communities. |
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FALL Ben-Sasson, H.H.: A History of the Jewish People. Cambridge, Mass., 1994 Shulvass, M.A.: The Jews in the World of the Renaissance. Leyden 1973 Katz, Jacob: Tradition and Crisis. Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages. New York, Schocken 1971
SUMMER Katz, Jacob: Tradition and Crisis. Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages. New York, Schocken 1971 Katz, Jacob: Out of the Ghetto. The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation 1770 - 1870. New York, Schocken 1978 K.Schubert: Židovské náboženství v prom?nách v?k?. Praha 1995 Katz, Jacob: The Role of Religion in Modern Jewish History. Cambridge, Mass., 1975 Haumann, Heiko: D?jiny východních Žid?. Olomouc, Votobia 1997 Shmeruk, Chajim: D?jiny literatury jidiš. Olomouc, Votobia 1996 |
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Last update: BVAKUCER (22.05.2008)
FALL SEMESTER 1. Introduction. Concept of history of Jews, periodization. Literature, sources. 2. Legal status of the Jewish population in the Diaspora. Canonical laws concerning the Jews in Europe, the 3rd and 4th Lateran Councils. 3. Attitude of secular sovereigns and common people to the Jews. 4. Legal statut sof the Jewish population in Moslem countries. 5. Origin of separated Jewish settlements (streets, quarters, ghettos). Jewish communities in Europe, their autonomy and organization. 6. Secular and spiritual administration of Jewish communities in Europe. 7. Secular and spiritual administration of Jewish communities in Europe - super- kehilla organizations.
8. Secular and spiritual administration of Jewish communities in Moslem countries.
SUMMER SEMESTER 1. Taxes.
2. Changes in the legal, social and economic status of the Jews in the periods of Enlightenment and emancipation.
3. Political devolopment in the periods of Enlightenment and emancipation.
4. Reform Judaism and its ifluence on the status of Jewish communities in the Diaspora.
5. Political development of Jewish communities in East Europe in the periods of Enlightenment and emancipation.
6. Cultural development of Jewish communities in East Europe in the periods of Enlightenment and emancipation (encounter with the ortodoxy; role of Hassidism; beginnings of modern literature in Yiddish).
7. Wissenschaft des Judentums and the importance of modern Jewish Studies in the proces sof integration.
8. Politic and social conditions as reflected in the cultural development of Jewish communities. Culture in the Sephardi diaspora - philosophy, science, poetry.
9. Culture in the Italian diaspora - science, belles-lettres, drama.
10. Culture in the Ashkenazi diaspora - literature of halakhah and exegesis, piyutim.
11. Problems of Messianic movements. |