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Lecturer(s)
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Crhová Marie, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Cahová Ivana, Mgr. PhD.
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Soukup Daniel, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Uličná Lenka, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction 2. Czech-Jewish material culture: the story of the Jewish museum in Prague (Lenka Uličná) 3. Languages of Czech Jews (Lenka Uličná) 4. Czech and Moravian Jews in Middle Ages (Daniel Soukup) 5. Czech and Moravian Jews in Early Modern Period (Daniel Soukup) 6. "Small, but ours": contemporary Jewish community (Daniel Soukup) 7. Czech Jewish literature / Czech written texts (Ivana Cahová) 8. German Jewish literature in Bohemia and Moravia (Ivana Cahová) 9. Shoah in Czech literature and cultural memory (Ivana Cahová) 10. Holocaust in Czechoslovak/Czech movies (Marie Crhová) 11. Jewish property and restitution (Marie Crhová) 12. Conclusion
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic), Group work
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- 26 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to introduce students to the cultural and intellectual heritage of Czech and Moravian Jews. It focuses on both the tangible heritage and its preservation within memory and archival institutions, as well as on the intangible heritage. It provides a cross-section from the Middle Ages to the present, with emphasis on the period of the flowering of Jewish communities in the 19th and 20th centuries, the tragedy of Shoah and its reflection in art, and contemporary Jewish culture. The course focuses on texts or audiovisual material in English translation, given the different levels of language competence of the participants.
The graduate will gain an overview of the tangible and intangible cultural and intellectual heritage of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia. He/she will have an overview of the cultural reflection on the history of the Jewish minority and the individual themes that have been shaped by the historical and political development.
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Prerequisites
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No prior knowledge is required to participate in the course.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Active participation on seminars (80%), reading the assigned texts, active participation in the discussions, completion of the assigned homework and presentation.
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Recommended literature
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Čapková, Kateřina and Kieval, Hillel J. Prague and Beyond. Jews in the Bohemian Lands. 2021.
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Čapková, Kateřina. Czechs, Germans, Jews? National identities of Bohemian Jews, 1867?1938. 2014.
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Heitlinger, Alena. n the Shadows of the Holocaust and Communism. Czech and Slovak Jews Since 1945. New York. 2006.
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Kieval, Hillel J. Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands. Stanford. 2011.
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Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz (Eds.). The Jew in the Modern World. Oxford. 1988.
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Putík, Alexandr. Jewish customs and traditions : festivals, the synagogue and the course of life. Prague. 2009.
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Spector, Scott. National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka?s Fin de Si?cle. 2000.
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Visi, Tamás. Words of Power: Studies in Rabbinic Authority and Literature in Medieval Moravia. Olomouc. 2015.
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Wilma Iggers (Ed.). The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia. Detroit. 1992.
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