History of Jews in Eastern Europe - AHZ100070

• Title: History of Jews in Eastern Europe
• Guaranteed by: Department of Middle Eastern Studies (21-KBV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023 to 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (12)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• 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: doc. PhDr. Pavel Sládek, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Pavel Sládek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Last update: Bc. Karolína Kotalová (21.09.2023)

1. Introduction. Did a “Russian Jewry” ever exist? Meanings and definitions.

2. “Selective integration” and the emergence of Russian-speaking Jewry.

3. Post-emancipation without emancipation? Activism, nationalism, socialism.

4. The Russian revolutions of 1917, Soviet nationalism, and Jewish self-identification.

5. Continuity and Change in the 1920s and the 1930s.

6. World War II and the Holocaust in the USSR.

7. Late Stalinism and the emergence of Soviet state antisemitism.

8. A Discriminated Elite? Soviet Jewish identities after 1953.

9. Dissidents and Zionists: The Jewish Movement in the USSR after 1967.

10. Conclusion: the last Soviet decade and beyond.