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Poslední úprava: VYKOUKAL (31.01.2006)
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Poslední úprava: KLAMKOVA (21.02.2006)
First Week Reading Assignment: Robert A. Kann, Zdeněk V. David, The Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526 -1918 (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1984): 3-22, 476-492. William O. McCagg Jr., A history of Habsburg Jews, 1670-1918 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989), 1-8, 11-43.
Second Week Reading Assignment: Jacob Katz, Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages (New York: New York University Press, 2nd edition, 1993), 3-44, 65 - 94. Steve Lowenstein, "The Shifting Boundary Between Eastern and Western Jewry," Jewish Social Studies, vol. 4/1, Fall 1997, 60-73.
Third Week: Jewish Enlightenment and its influence on the Habsburg Jewry Reading Assignment: Moses Mendelssohn, Jerusalem or On Religious Power and Judaism, translated by Allan Arkush (Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1983), 40-44, 70-90, 126-139. Jacob Katz, Out of the Ghetto: The social background of Jewish Emancipation (New York: Schocken, 1978), 42-103.
Fourth Week: Emancipation. Reading Assignment: Emancipation of Jews in Prussia/France/Austria-Hungary - primary documents: Paul Mendes-Flohr, ed. The Jew in the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford university press, 2nd edition, 1995). Hillary L. Rubinstein, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, "Enlightenment and emancipation in continental Europe, 1750-1880," in The Jews in the Modern World: A History since 1750 (London: Arnold, 2002), 15 - 42.
Fifth Week: Modern Jewish identity in the Habsburg lands. Reading Assignment: Marsha Rozenblit, Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I, 39-58, 106-161. Steven Beller, Patritism and the National Identity of Habsburg Jewry, 1860-1914, "Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 41 (1996), 215-238.
Sixth Week: Who is a Czech Jew? Reading Assignment: Hillel Kieval, The Making of Czech Jewry: National Conflict and Jewish Society in Bohemia, 1870-1918 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 3-93 Hillel Kieval, Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands(Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2002), 1 -94.
Seventh Week: Jews as Magyars or as Magyarizers? Reading Assignment: Victor Karady, "Religious Divisions, Socio-Economic Stratification and the Modernization of Hungarian Jewry after the Emancipation," in Michael Silber ed., Jews in the Hungarian Economy, 1760-1945 (Jerusalem: Magness Press, 1992), 161-184. William O. McCagg, "Jewish Conversions in Hungary in Modern Times," in Todd M. Edelman, Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World (London: Holmes and Meier, 1987), 142-164.
Eighth Week: Jews of Galicia: between Poles, Ukrainians and Germans. Reading Assignment: William O. McCagg Jr., A history of Habsburg Jews, 1670-1918 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989), 105 - 122. Piotr Wróbel, "The Jews of Galicia under Austrian-Polish Rule, 1869-1918," Austrian History Yearbook 25 (1994), 97-138. Ninth Week: The Jews of Vienna. Reading Assignment: Marsha Rozenblit, The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983), 71-98. William O. McCagg Jr., A history of Habsburg Jews, 1670-1918 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989), 47-64 and 140-160 (Chapters: "Vienna Bourgeoisie" and "Vienna Confused.")
Tenth Week: Religion Revised. Reading Assignment: Hillary L. Rubinstein, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, The Jews in the Modern World: A History since 1750 (London: Arnold, 2002), 44-63. David Sorkin, "Jews, the Enlightenment and Religious Toleration - Some Reflections," Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook (1992).
Eleventh Week: Jewish Gentile Relations in the Austria-Hungary. Reading Assignment: Richard Wagner, "Modern" Adolf Stoecker, "Our demands of Modern Jewry" Heinrich von Treitschke, "A World about our Jews" Wilhelm Marr, "The Victory of Jewry over Germandom" Jacob Katz, From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933, 1-10, 245-300
Twelfth Week: Finding a New Homeland. Reading Assignment: Ezra Mendelssohn, The Jews of East Central Europe between the World Wars (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987): - Czechoslovakia 130-169 - Hungary: 84-128 - Poland: 11-83 |
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Poslední úprava: KLAMKOVA (21.02.2006)
First Week: Introduction to the course: Who were the Habsburg Jews?
In our first session we will discuss both the origins of the Habsburg monarchy as such and that of its Jewry - who were they, were did they come from and how did they differ from each other (Bohemian, Galician and Hungarian Jewry)?
Second Week: Breakdown of traditional Jewish society, shifting border between the "Ostjuden" and "Westjuden"
In this class we will discuss both the external and the internal barriers that defined the Jewish society in its pre-modern period. The focal point of this class will be the dissolution of the traditional Jewish society in the area settled by the Ashkenazi Jewry.
Third Week: Jewish Enlightenment and its influence on the Habsburg Jewry
In our third meeting we will focus on the Jewish intellectual movement Haskala, on its origins and its influence on the Jewish society in the Habsburg lands. We will be dealing with life and thoughts of Moses Mendelssohn, a central figure of the Haskala.
Fourth Week: Emancipation
The purpose of this class is to examine the process of Jewish legal emancipation in the Austria Hungary. In this class we look at the emancipation of Habsburg Jewry from a broader perspective by comparing the individual legal acts that emancipated Jews in France, Prussia and in the Habsburg Empire.
Fifth Week: Modern Jewish identity in the Habsburg lands.
This class will discuss the question of Jewish identity and (self) definition in the Habsburg lands. In other words, were the Jews of the Habsburg Empire an ethnic, religious or a social group?
Sixth Week: Who is a Czech Jew?
In the sixth week we will focus on the Bohemian Jewry, a group of people between the competing Czech and German nationalities. Primarily we will investigate their character, identity and the process of integration in the surrounding society.
Seventh Week: Jews as Magyars or as Magyarizers?
In this class we will examine the place of Jews in the Hungarian kingdom, their social status and above all, their political and national identity.
Eighth Week: Jews of Galicia: between Poles, Ukrainians and Germans
In the eighth week we will focus on the largest Jewish group in the Austria Hungary, on the Galician Jews. An important part of the class will be devoted to the problem of Galician Jews as a group between the Poles, Ukrainians and Germans.
Ninth Week: The Jews of Vienna
Ninth class will be devoted to the study of the Austrian Jews, particularly, the Jews of the royal town - Vienna.
Tenth Week: Religion Revised
In this class we will examine the influence of emancipation and the Enlightenment on Jewish religious identity, we will focus both on the beginnings of Orthodox Judaism and on the reform movement in Judaism.
Eleventh Week: Jewish Gentile Relations in the Austria-Hungary.
Our eleventh session will be devoted to the study of Jewish-Gentile relations; we will investigate both the traditional and popular anti-Jewish feelings and the rise of modern anti-Semitism.
Twelfth Week: Finding a New Homeland
In our last class we will examine the breakdown of the Habsburg Empire and the place of Jews in the newly established republics - Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary. |