RLB93 Jewish Identities and Modernity

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Eleonóra Hamar, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. David Václavík, Ph.D.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková
Supplier department: Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 9:10–10:45 pracovna
Prerequisites (in Czech)
(( RLA05 Judaism || RLKA05 Judaism ) && ( RLAB31 Sociology of religion || RLB31 Sociology of Religion )) || PROGRAM(N-PH-RL) || PROGRAM(N-HS-RL)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course introduces graduate students into the radical change of situation, in which Jewish identities were formed in European societies since the modern social transformations. The mapping of the historical and social background and the analysis of discursive practices focuses on different reinterpretations of Judaism and Jewishness, which emerged as reactions to the processes of emancipation and secularization, or to the historical events of Zionism and Holocaust. The construction of modern Jewish identities is also explained in relation to memory both as biblical commandment and as a theoretical concept. At the end of the course students should be able to: explain the cultural, social and political background of Jewish identity formations, interpret the ambivalent role of emancipation and secularization in relation to modern Jewish identities, interpret personal and social identities as discursively constructed both in general and in relation to Sionism and Holocaust, interpret the role of memory in constructing identities, apply the gained theoretical knowledge in analysing contemporary, post-holocaust identities.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to the social construction of identities, Jewishness between tradition and modernity, The ambivalence of Emancipation and Secularization, The Paria and Parvenu, Sionism as Culture, Modernity and Holocaust, Post-holocaust Identities, Jewish identity and memory (Zakhor), Memory and history, Memory and post-memory.
Teaching methods
Lectures, home readings, workshops based on textual, visual and video documents, one ethnographic entry to the field.
Assessment methods
active participation in seminar discussions, in time submission of position papers, oral presentation of the topic of final essay, in time submission of a final essay (10 pages).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
Credit evaluation note: plus 2 za k.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Zápis mimo religionistiku je podmíněn souhlasem vyučující.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004.
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