|
|
|
||
|
Class I (Oct 1): Why Theories of Antisemitism? What Are We Trying to Explain? Class II (Oct 8): But Do We Actually Need a Definition of Antisemitism? Central question: How analytically useful are the existing, and sometimes conflicting, definitions of antisemitism? Required readings Brian Klug, “What Do We Mean When We Say ‘Antisemitism’?” in Antisemitism in Europe Today: The Phenomena, the Conflicts (Jewish Museum Berlin, 2013). David Engel, “Away from a Definition of Antisemitism: An Essay in the Semantics of Historical Description,” in Jeremy Cohen and Moshe Rosman, eds., Rethinking European Jewish History (Liverpool University Press, 2009), 30–53. Class III (Oct 15): When Does Anti-Judaism Become Antisemitism? Required readings Gavin I. Langmuir, “Anti-Judaism as the Necessary Preparation for Antisemitism,” in Toward a Definition of Antisemitism (University of California Press, 1990). Shulamit Volkov, “Antisemitism as a Cultural Code: Reflections on the History and Historiography of Antisemitism in Imperial Germany,” Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 23, no. 1 (1978): 25–46. Class IV (Oct 22): What Explains Modern Antisemitism? Political Structure or Social Conditions? Required readings Hannah Arendt, “The Jews, the Nation-State, and the Birth of Antisemitism,” in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), 11–53. William I. Brustein and Ryan D. King, “Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust,” International Political Science Review 25, no. 1 (2004): 35–53. Class V (Nov 5): What Does Antisemitic Conspiracies to the People Who Believe Them? Required readings J. Eric Oliver and Thomas J. Wood, “Conspiracy Theories and the Paranoid Style(s) of Mass Opinion,” American Journal of Political Science 58, no. 4 (2014): 952–966. Moishe Postone, “Anti-Semitism and National Socialism,” New German Critique 19 (1980): 97-115. Class VI (Nov 12): Is Antisemitism a Form of Racism? Required readings Nira Yuval-Davis, “Antisemitism is a Form of Racism – or is it?” Sociology 58, no. 4 (2024): 785-801. Karin Stögner, “Critical Theory of Racism, Antisemitism, and the Demonisation of Israel: Understanding Their Complex Interrelations,” Ethnicities 29, no. 1 (2026): 3–24. Class VII (Nov 19): Holocaust Memory. Universalization or Appropriation? Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider, “Memory Unbound: The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory,” European Journal of Social Theory 5, no. 1 (2002): 87–106. Jelena Subotić, “The Appropriation of Holocaust Memory in Post-Communist Eastern Europe,” Modern Languages Open 2020, no. 1: 22, 1–8. Class VIII (Nov 26): Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism. Where Is the Boundary? Is There a Boundary? Required readings Brian Klug, “The Collective Jew: Israel and the New Antisemitism,” Patterns of Prejudice 37:2 (2003), 117–138. David Feldman, “Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in Britain,” in Antisemitism in Europe Today: The Phenomena, the Conflicts (Jewish Museum Berlin, 2014). Class IX (Dec 10): How Should We Measure Antisemitism? Required readings Johannes Due Enstad, “Facing Antisemitism in Europe: Individual and Country-Level Predictors of Jews’ Victimization and Fear across Twelve Countries,” Social Forces 103, no. 3 (2025): 1186–1209. Sasha Volodarsky, Graham Wright, Shahar Hecht, and Leonard Saxe, “What Crosses the Line? Understanding the Boundaries of Antisemitism from the Perspective of Targets,” Journal of Jewish Education 91, no. 2 (2025): 107–131. Class X (December 17): After 7 October and Gaza. Antisemitism, Genocide, and the Future of Antisemitism Studies Required readings A. Dirk Moses, “Education after Gaza after Education after Auschwitz,” Berlin Review, no. 14 (2025). Evelyn Alsultany, “Antisemitism and Islamophobia: The University’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Response to October 7, 2023,” Journal of Palestine Studies 53, no. 4 (2024): 8–24. Class XI (January 7): Does “Antisemitism” Still Work as an Analytical Category? Required readings Havi Dreifuss, “In Defense of the Concept of ‘Antisemitism’ in Holocaust Studies,” in Scott Ury and Guy Miron, eds., Antisemitism and the Politics of History (Brandeis University Press, 2024), 281–298. Amos Goldberg and Raz Segal, “‘Antisemitism’ as a Question in Holocaust Studies,” in Scott Ury and Guy Miron, eds., Antisemitism and the Politics of History (Brandeis University Press, 2024), 299–318. Poslední úprava: Kubátová Hana, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (06.10.2026)
|
|
||
|
How to Prepare for Each Class When doing the reading for each class, keep these questions in mind: What is the central argument of the reading? Where exactly do the two authors disagree? What evidence to these arguments rest on? Which assumptions do the authors treat differently? Besides class debates, most classes include short written work, small-group argument reconstruction and the application of the readings to a new case or source. In class work is part of the assessment. Poslední úprava: Kubátová Hana, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (06.10.2026)
|