Readings in Jewish Diaspora - L0147

• Title: Readings in Jewish Diaspora
• Guaranteed by: HTF - Katedra filozofie (28-05)
• Faculty: Hussite Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 28 [hours]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Gerald Robert Ostdiek, BA, M.A., Ph.D.
• Is interchangeable with: LJUD57

Annotation

This course explores the rich literature of the Jewish communities of the English-speaking world. Readings will be drawn primarily from auto (or semi-auto) biographical sources, however some fiction will also be included. Both readings and discussions will focus on the experience of the Jewish peoples, being a people in the world, and the value of that experience to their non-Jewish neighbors.

Last update: Patová Kateřina, ThDr. (08.01.2018)

Course completion requirements

To earn credit for this course, a student must demonstrate his/her understanding of the subject matter through class participation and via examination, both written and oral. Attendance is mandatory: if a student misses a significant number of classes, he/she will be required to write an additional term paper.

Last update: Patová Kateřina, ThDr. (08.01.2018)

Literature

Povinná:
Bellow, S. (2011) A Jewish Writer in America, New York Review of Books October 27

Buber, M. (1967) On Judaism. New York: Schocken Books

Judt, T. (2006) The Country that wouldn’t grow up. Haaretz May 14

Judt, T. (2010) Edge People. New York Review of Books February 23

Koestler, A. (1945) The Yogi and the Commissar. New York: Macmillan

Miller, A. (1949) Tragedy and the Common Man, New York Review of Books February 27

Miller, A. (2003) Why Israel Must Choose Justice, The Nation July

Oz, A. (2009) A life in Writing - interview by Aida Edemariam, the Guardian February 14

Singer, I. B. (1978) Nobel Lecture

Urquhart, C. (2003) Jerusalem mayor's prize-fight with Miller, the Guardian July 6

Last update: Patová Kateřina, ThDr. (08.01.2018)

Syllabus

Introduction and overview: A people without a land. Storytelling as unity: Judaism and mankind by Martin Buber. Storytelling as survival: Isaac Bashevis Singer. Making a future in stories part one: Saul Bellow. Making a future in stories part two: Amos Oz. The problem of Tragedy: Arthur Miller. Tragedy in conflict: Arthur Miller vs. Uri Lopolianski. Nation and Diaspora, a historical view: Tony Judt. Whose land, whose exile, whose Shoah: Arthur Koestler and the nature of atrocity. Conclusion and Overview: what do we learn from the story of the Jewish Diaspora?

Last update: Patová Kateřina, ThDr. (08.01.2018)