UCJAJNP027 The Jews of Central and Eastern Europe: Politics and Culture

Filozoficko-přírodovědecká fakulta v Opavě
léto 2025
Rozsah
0/1/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Mgr. Marie Crhová, Ph.D., MA (cvičící)
Garance
Mgr. Marie Crhová, Ph.D., MA
Ústav cizích jazyků – Filozoficko-přírodovědecká fakulta v Opavě
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This course provides an advanced introduction to some of the major social and political issues in the modern history of the Jews in Central and Eastern Europe. It covers the period from the late eighteenth century, when debates over Jewish emancipation first began to acquire currency, through the restructuralization of organized Jewish life following the collapse of communism in the end of the twentieth century. The course provides an overview of the Jewish experience as a minority group, introducing main themes of modern Jewish history such as emancipation, Jewish politics, religious reform, antisemitism, Hebrew and Yiddish literature. Geographical framework of the course includes present day Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, occasional references will be made to Israel and the USA. Students will gain an appreciation of basic themes, events and ideas in modern Jewish history. The weekly class will be divided into three sections: lectures, students' presentations and discussions. Students are encouraged to use primary documents in their presentations (from The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History) to illustrate their arguments.
Výstupy z učení
The students will be able to discuss major social and political issues in the modern history of the Jews in Central and Eastern Europe. They will understand the Jewish experience as a minority group, introducing main themes of modern Jewish history such as emancipation, Jewish politics, religious reform, antisemitism, Hebrew and Yiddish literature.
Osnova
  • 1. Introduction to Jewish History and Culture 2. From Pre-Modern to Modern Jewry 3. Emancipation and Jewish Responses to Modernity in Central and Western Europe 4. The Tsarist Russia 5. Modern Religious Movements in Judaism 6. Antisemitism 7. Politics and Ideologies 8. Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature 9. World War One and the Interwar Years 10. Jews in the Soviet Union 11. The Holocaust 12. Zionism and the State of Israel 13. Jews in the Communist Regimes: Case of Czechoslovakia
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • Pierre Birnbaum, Ira Katznelson, eds. (2014). Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States and Citizenship, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Paul Mendes-Flohr, Jehuda Reinharz (2010). The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History, New York: Oxford Uni
    doporučená literatura
  • Michael L. Miller (2011). Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation, Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Výukové metody
lectures, students' presentations and discussions
Metody hodnocení
written test
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Regular attendance and participation: 50%
One in-class presentation / One term paper (5-10 pages): 50%
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích zima 2021, zima 2022, léto 2024.