FVP:USESEP028 Jews and Central Europe - Course Information
USESEP028 Jews and Central Europe
Faculty of Public Policies in OpavaWinter 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Mečislav Borák, CSc.
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Central European Studies (programme FVP, B6702-MTS)
- Course objectives
- Presentation of principal concepts of Jewish culture and facts regarding modern development of Jews in central Europe, always in connection to European-wide and worldwide development emphasising history of Jews in conditions of pre-war Czechoslovakia and its nearest neighbours. The attention will be paid especially to development of European anti-Semitism and historical circumstances from which the phenomenon of holocaust was born.
- Syllabus
- 1. Outline of resources and literature, research institutions and projects in the Czech republic and in the world
2. Judaism, Jewish tradition, customs and culture of European Jews
3. Jewish history and thinking from Biblical times till present day
4. Specifics of development of European and Czechoslovak Jews
5. Development and forms of European anti-Semitism
6. Anti-Semitism in history of Czech society
7. "Final Solution" of Jewish question, Holocaust
8. The fate of Jews in former Czechoslovakia
9. The fate of Jews in central and south-east Europe
10. Post-war position of Jews in Czechoslovakia and in Europe, victim reparations
11. Dispute holocaust, present anti-Semitism
12. Current position and problems of Jews in central Europe
- 1. Outline of resources and literature, research institutions and projects in the Czech republic and in the world
- Literature
- required literature
- Stín šoa nad Evropou. Usp. M. Pojar. Praha, 2001. info
- Židé - dějiny a kultura. Praha:Židovské muzeum, 1997. info
- Židé v novodobých dějinách. Praha: Karolinum, 1997. info
- JOHNSON, P. Dějiny židovského národa. Praha, 1995. info
- Na křižovatce kultur. Historie československých židů. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1992. info
- recommended literature
- BORÁK, M. První deportace evropských Židů. Ostrava, 2009. info
- SPIEGEL, P. Kdo jsou židé? Brno, 2007. info
- Poválečná justice a národní podoby antisemitismu. Ed. M. Borák. Praha-Opava, 2002. info
- ARENDTOVÁ, H. Eichmann v Jeruzalémě. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1995. info
- KÁRNÝ, M. "Konečné řešení". Genocida českých Židů v německé protektorátní politice. Praha: Academia, 1991. info
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- Seminar paper (7 pages) - essay or scientific article aimed at concrete topic from modern history of Jews in central Europe. The aim of the work is to verify the ability of independent searching for and processing of information including their analysis as well as ability of generalisation of one concrete problem and composition of facto-graphically and methodologically correct analytic or systemically analytic scientific text.
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2014, recent)
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