The Israeli Holocaust and conflict researcher Dan Bar-On, among many others, argues that in contrast to the
dominating Zionist identity, several different “Others” have emerged, divided between external Others (e. g. Arabs)
and internal Others (Diaspora Jews, Holocaust survivors, Orthodox, and “Oriental” Mizrahi Jews), in modern Israeli
society. By exploring the term “Otherness” in the sense of Alterity, the course will focus on creating the above listed
group-based identities and their alteration over time in interaction with the majority society. The phenomenon of
“intersectionality” resulting from multiply othering will be analyzed in the Israeli communal split context.
Representations of "the Others" in Israeli film and literature will be discussed.
The course is accompanied by a screening of commented excerpts of contemporary Israeli cinematography.
Poslední úprava: Kafka Ivan, Mgr. Bc. (01.02.2021)
Podmínky zakončení předmětu
Exam requirements:
A) active participation in discussions 25%
B) class presentation on a selected topic 25%
C) written test or essay 50%
Poslední úprava: Kafka Ivan, Mgr. Bc. (01.02.2021)
Literatura
* Required Readings: Ben-Rafael, Eliezer - Schoeps, Julius H. - Sternberg, Yitzhak - Glöckner, Olaf (eds.). Handbook of Israel: Major Debates. De Gruyter, 2016. (SELECTED CHAPTERS) https://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=2&sid=d6d63615-fe16-470d-9786-782d838d1c39%40sessionmgr4007&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLHNoaWImc2l0ZT1lZHMtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=1385587&db=nlebk Goldscheider, Calvin. Israeli Society in the Twenty-First Century: Immigration, Inequality, and Religious Conflict. The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies, Brandeis University Press, 2015.
* Recommended Reading List: Averbukh, Lidia. “Israel on the Road to the Orient?: The Cultural and Political Rise of the Mizrahim”. Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik. German Institute for International and Security Affairs, SWP Comments 9. April 2017. Bar-On, Dan. The Others Within Us: Constructing Jewish-Israeli Identity. Cambridge: CUP, 2008. Belt, D. „Zapomenutí věřící: Arabští křesťané“. [Forgotten Believers: Arab Christians] National Geographic. 8 (2009), no. 6, 34-53. Ben-David, B. “State of the Nation Report: Society, Economy and Policy 2014”, Herbert M. Singer Annual Report Series. Jerusalem: Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, 2014. Benbassa, Esther. “Otherness, Openness and Rejection in Jewish Context”. Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 5. February 2010. DellaPergola, Sergio. Diaspora vs. Homeland: Development, Unemployment and Ethnic Migration to Israel, 1991-2019. Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics, The A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, September 2020. DellaPergola, Sergio. “Population Trends and Options in Israel and in the Diaspora.” The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), 2011. DellaPergola, Sergio. “World Jewish Population, 2018.” The American Jewish Year Book. Eds. Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin. Dordrecht: Springer, 2018. 361-452. Dowty, Alan (ed.). Critical Issues in Israeli Society. Series on Jewish and Israeli Studies. London: Praeger Publishers, 2004. Fischer, Shlomo. “Two Patterns of Modernization: An Analysis of the Ethnic Issue in Israel”. Israel Studies Review 31. January 2016. 66-85. Gitelman, Zvi (ed.). Religion or Ethnicity?: Jewish Identities in Evolution. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2009. Halperin-Kaddari, Ruth. Women in Israel: A State of Their Own. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Halperin-Kaddari, Ruth and Yadgar, Yaacov. Religion, Politics and Gender Equality among Jews in Israel. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 2010. Herzog, Hanna. “Women in Israeli Society.” In Rebhun, U. - Waxman, Ch. I.( eds.). Jews in Israel: Contemporary Social and Cultural Patterns. (195-220) Hanover -London: Brandeis University Press, 2004. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS), Statistical Abstract. Jerusalem: Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 2017. Khazzoom, Loolwa. The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage. New York: Seal Press, 2003. Lewin-Epstein, Noah and Cohen, Yinon. “Ethnic origin and identity in the Jewish population of Israel”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2018. Massad, Joseph (1996). "Zionism's Internal Others: Israel and the Oriental Jews". Journal of Palestine Studies. 25 (4): 53-68 [60]. doi:10.1525/jps.1996.25.4.00p0006c. JSTOR 2538006. “A Portrait of Jewish Americans.” Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. October 1 2013. Roby, Bryan K. The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel's Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966. Syracuse University Press, 2015. Rosner, Shmuel Rosner and Ruskay, John. “70 Years of Israel-Diaspora Relations: The Next Generation”. Eds. Barry Geltman and Rami Tal. The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), 2018. Scham, Paul. - Pogrund, Benjamin. - Ghanem, As´ad. Shared Narratives - A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue. Israel Studies 18 (2013), no. 2, Indiana University Press. Smooha, Sammy. Israel: Pluralism and Conflict, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. Stern, Yedidia, Z. “Israeli law and Jewish law in Israel: A zero sum game?” In Batnitzky, L., & Dagan, H (Eds.). Institutionalizing rights and religion: competing supremacies (pp. 57-73). Cambridge University Press, 2017. Swirski, Shlomo. Politics and Education in Israel: Comparisons with the United States. Routledge, 2002. Tamari, Salim. "Ishaq al-Shami and the Predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine". Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 21; 2004. Pages 10-26. Zoufalá, Marcela. Judaismus a ženy v Izraeli. [Judaism and women in Israel]. Praha: Karolinum University Press, 2012, in Czech. Zoufalá, Marcela. “Judaism and Divorce Practices in the Modern State of Israel”. In Culturologia, 1(2), 2012, in English. Zoufalá, Marcela. “The Ordination of Women as Rabbis - Prospects of Female Believers in the State of Israel”. In Studia Ethnologica Pragensia, 2/2013, pp. 59-73, in Czech. Zoufalá, Marcela. “Israel Studies - A New Academic Discipline Seeking its Identity”, in Zoufalá, Marcela - Sládek, Pavel - Zdichynec, Jan /eds./: Židovská studia ve 21. století [Jewish Studies in the 21st Century], Historie - Otázky - Problémy 2013/1 - FA CU, Praha 2013, pp. 19-25, in Czech. Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem. “Ethno-religious Othering as a reason behind the Central European Jewish distancing from Israel”, in: Haim Fireberg, Olaf Glöckner, Marcela Menachem Zoufalá /eds./: Being Jewish in 21st Century Central Europe. Series: Europäisch-jüdische Studien, De Gruyter, 2020, in English.
Poslední úprava: Kafka Ivan, Mgr. Bc. (01.02.2021)
Sylabus
The course will be taught ONLINE via ZOOM. The classes will be divided into four blocks:
March 2 Tuesday 14:10-18:40
March 24 Wednesday 14:10-18:40
April 14 Wednesday 9:10-13:40
May 4 Tuesday 9:10-13:40
Upon the registration in SIIS, students should contact the lecturer by email: marcela.zoufala@gmail.com or marcela.zoufala@ff.cuni.cz directly.
Poslední úprava: Kafka Ivan, Mgr. Bc. (01.02.2021)
