Course: Israeli Studies - Optional Seminar

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Course title Israeli Studies - Optional Seminar
Course code JUD/1IZK2
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Cahová Ivana, Mgr. PhD.
Course content
WS 2020/21 Film Workshop "Antisemitism and Shoa in the Israeli cinema" The participants of the course will analyse the different approches toward the Shoa in the Israeli society and the representation of the phenomenon in the Israeli cinema. The course will focus on the unconventional and in the Czech scientific enviroment not wide known perspectives of the two first decades of the 21st century. Since the autors belong to the second and third generation of Israelis/Shoa survivors, also the topic of the transfer of trauma between generations will be included in the course discussions. Screened films: Stalags. Ari Liebsker (2008, IZR) An Apartment in Berlin. Alice Agneskirchner (2014, GER) Pizza in Auschwitz. Moshe Zimmermann (2008, IZR) An integral part of the festival film section will be also the screening of the Hans Karl Breslauer´s film Die Stadt ohne Juden (1924, AUS) with the live orchestral music powered by the orchester BERG and the academic lecture by prof. Ingeborg Fialová on topic Hugo Bettauer - autor of the literary template of the screenplay.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic)
Learning outcomes
The goal of the course is to introduce the different approches toward the Shoa in the Israeli society and the representation of the phenomenon in the Israeli cinema.
Participants of the course will gain an overview about the different approches toward the Shoa in the Israeli society and the representation of the phenomenon in the Israeli cinema.
Prerequisites
The screenings and some of the academic lectures are part of the film section of the festival Days of Jewish Culture Olomouc 2020. This parts are open for public.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Dialog, Seminar Work

Participants are obligated to tak part on the all film projections (October 14t, 19t and 20t, Mozarteum, Olomouc Archdiocesan Museum, Václavské nám. 3, around 5 PM) and on lectures (October 14, Museum Coffee, Denisova 47 Street, Olomouc). For the date of the first tutorial seminars see the CJS website. The course will be concluded by a colloqium.
Recommended literature
  • + V závislosti na tématu semináře/Depending on the topic of seminar.
  • Avisar, Ilan. (2011). Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion.. University of Texas Press.
  • Avisor, Ilan. The Holocaust in Israeli cinema as a conflict between survival and morality.
  • Gutwein, Daniel. (2009). The privatization of the Holocaust: memory historiography, and politics. In: Israel Studies. 14(1):36-64. Indiana University Press.
  • Ofer, Dalia. (2979). Studying the Holocaust in Israel. In: Israel Studies. Fall2018, Vol. 23 Issue 3, pp. 96-105.
  • Rauch, Stefanie. Understanding the Holocaust through Film: Audience Reception between Preconceptions and Media Effects. In:History & Memory. Spring/Summer2018, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p151-188. 38p. 1 Chart..


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Jewish Studies. Jewish History and Culture (2019) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Jewish and Israeli Studies (2019) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Jewish Studies. Jewish History and Culture (2019) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Jewish and Israeli Studies (2019) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Jewish Studies. Jewish History and Culture (2019) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -