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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Petr Bednařík, Ph.D. (22.11.2021)
Readings include both primary and secondary sources. All students are required to have read the assigned weekly reading before attending the class. Apart from that, students will be given occasional in-class readings (in the form of handouts). |
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Petr Bednařík, Ph.D. (22.11.2021)
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Petr Bednařík, Ph.D. (07.12.2021)
History, Politics and Culture of Central European Jewry Course Schedule
Introductory Class and Syllabus Reading Traditional Jewish Society Salo Baron, “Ghetto and Emancipation,” reprinted in Leo W. Schwartz, ed. The Menorah Treasury (Philadelphia 1964): 50 - 63. Enlightenment and the Haskalah Jacob Katz, Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation (New York 1978): 42-103. (Focus on pages 42-56) Emancipation 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 2002), 15-42. Origins of Racial Antisemitism Jacob Katz, From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933 (Cambridge 1980): 1-10, 245-300 Theodor Herzl and Political Zionism Isaiah Friedman, “Theodor Herzl: Political Activity and Achievements,” in Israel Studies, vol. 9, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 46-79. Assimilation and Identity Crisis Marsha Rozenblit, “The Dissolution of the monarchy and the crisis of Jewish identity, October 1918 - June 1919,” in Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I (Oxford, New York 2004): 128-161. The Holocaust Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust (New Haven and London 2002): 1-13, 39-67. Final Paper Outlines Due / No Class The Holocaust as a Communal Genocide Omer Bartov, Wartime Lies and Other Testimonies, in East European Politics & Societies 25:3 (2011): 486-511. Postwar Jewish-Gentile Experience Jan T. Gross, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz. Essays in Historical Interpretation (New York 2007): 81-117. Holocaust Memory and European Identity Karen Auerbach, Review Essay: Holocaust Memory in Polish Scholarship, in AJS Review 35:1 (April 2011): 137-150.
Course Requirements: Active participation: 30% Final paper: 70%
Evaluation is performed in accordance with the Dean’s Provision.
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