Poslední úprava: PhDr. Marcela Menachem Zoufalá, Ph.D. (01.09.2023)
The course introduces participants to the essential topics addressed by Israel studies today, primarily related to
Israeli society, culture, gender, ethnicity, and religion. Particular emphasis is placed on the challenges
surrounding the integration of minorities and minority rights regarding the country's legislation.
The course will also look at Jewish society's current divisions along ethnic lines, specifically among Ashkenazim,
Sephardim and Mizrahim, and their implications on socio-cultural processes.
The phenomenon of intersectionality resulting from multiple otherings will be analyzed in the Israeli communal split
context. Representations of "the Others" in Israeli film and literature will be discussed. The course concludes with
a debate on possible future developments while considering social and demographic data and reflecting
changing realities in the 'New' Middle East, especially after signing the Abraham Accords.
The course includes a screening of commented excerpts of contemporary Israeli cinematography.
The course is provided by the Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles
University.
The course will be taught ONLINE, weekly (Tuesdays 9:10-10:50), starting October 3, 2023.
The language of instruction is English.
Consultations will be held after every class upon request.
Podmínky zakončení předmětu
Poslední úprava: PhDr. Marcela Menachem Zoufalá, Ph.D. (01.09.2023)
Examination: A) active participation in discussions 30%; B) class presentation on a selected topic 40%; C) written test or essay 30%
Literatura - angličtina
Poslední úprava: PhDr. Marcela Menachem Zoufalá, Ph.D. (17.07.2022)
Required Readings: * Ben-Rafael, Eliezer - Schoeps, Julius H. - Sternberg, Yitzhak - Glöckner, Olaf (eds.). Handbook of Israel: Major Debates. De Gruyter, 2016. (SELECTED CHAPTERS) * Goldscheider, Calvin. Israeli Society in the Twenty-First Century: Immigration, Inequality, and Religious Conflict. The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies, Brandeis University Press, 2015.
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. Benbassa, Esther. “Otherness, Openness and Rejection in Jewish Context”. Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR) 5. February 2010. Cahaner, Lee and Malach, Gilad. The Statistical Report on Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel, The Israel Democracy Institute, 2019. Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Population of Israel on the Eve of 2022. Jerusalem: Central Bureau of Statistics, 2021. DellaPergola, Sergio. “World Jewish Population, 2018.” The American Jewish Year Book. Eds. Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin. Dordrecht: Springer, 2018. 361-452. 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, 2020. 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. Haddad Haj-Yahya, Nasreen - Khalaily, Muhammed - Rudnitzky, Arik – Fargeon, Ben. Statistical Report on Arab Society in Israel: 2021. The Israel Democracy Institute, 2022. 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’s Religiously Divided Society.” Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. October 1 2016. Khazzoom, Loolwa. The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage. New York: Seal Press, 2003. Lavie, Ephraim. Integrating the Arab-Palestinian Minority in Israeli Society: Time for a Strategic Change. Published by Institute for National Security Studies and The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, 2018. Lewin-Epstein, Noah and Cohen, Yinon. “Ethnic origin and identity in the Jewish population of Israel”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2018. [Menachem] Zoufalá, Marcela. Judaismus a ženy v Izraeli. [Judaism and women in Israel]. Praha: Karolinum University Press, 2012, in Czech. [Menachem] Zoufalá, Marcela. “Judaism and Divorce Practices in the Modern State of Israel”. In Culturologia, 1(2), 2012, in English. [Menachem] 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. [Menachem] 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. Menachem Zoufalá, Marcela. “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. Menachem Zoufalá, Marcela. “Mizrahim or Arab-Jews: An Impact of Discriminated Groups on (re)Forming of Israeli Society”, in: P. R. Kumaraswamy /ed./: International Palgrave Handbook on Israel, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 (Forthcoming). Menachem Zoufalá, Marcela, Joanna Dyduch, and Olaf Glöckner. 2022. "Jews and Muslims in Dubai, Berlin, and Warsaw: Interactions, Peacebuilding Initiatives, and Improbable Encounters" Religions 13, no. 1: 13. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010013 “A Portrait of Jewish Americans.” Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. October 1 2013. 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. 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. Tzameret, Hagar – Chazan, Naomi – Herzog, Hanna – Basin, Yulia – Brayer, Ronna - Hadass Ben Eliyahu, Garb. The Gender Index: Gender Inequality in Israel 2021. Van Leer Institute Press, 2021. Weil, Shalva. “Ethiopian Jewish Women: Trends and Transformations in the Context of Transnational Change.” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, No. 8, Multiculturalism and Migration in Israel (Fall, 5765/2004), pp. 73-86 (14 pages), Published By: Indiana University Press. Weiss, Avi, Ed.“State of the Nation Report: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel 2021 ”, The Singer Annual Report Series. Jerusalem: Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, 2021.
