Wandering Jews in their New Homes: The Rise of New Diaspora Centers 28.3. 31.3.2017 (Tuesday 13:15-16:30, Wednesday 15:00-18:15, Thursday 15:0018:15, Friday 9:45 13:00); CJS Library (Třída Svobody 26, Olomouc, 1st floor) Description and Outline: The course will address key issues in the modern migration history of European Jews, with allusions as well to North African and Eastern Mediterranean Jewish migrants. Among the specific questions to be studied will be the following: 1. What was nature, size, and structure of the Jewish Diaspora before, during, and in the wake of the era of great migrations of the 19th and early 20th centuries? 2. Were Jews a subsidiary part of larger migration movements or were they responding to a unique set of migratory factors? 3. How relevant to the Jewish case are the broad range of issues sometimes associated with other migrant streams: migration restrictions, trans-migration and return-migration, refugee migration, illegal migration, and human trafficking? 4. What was the rationale behind Jewish organizational practices in response to the Jewish migration waves, such as attempts at selective filtering, social assistance projects, immigrant defense work, agricultural planning, and immigrant dispersal programs? 5. How did the average immigrant experience the migration process, and how did gender differences affect the perception of that experience? 6. How extensively did the map of world Jewry continue to change in the aftermath of World War II and the establishment of Israel? Readings for the seminar will include excerpted selections from the following titles: Alroey, Gur. Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear (Detroit: 2011). Kahn, Ava and A. Mendelsohn (eds.), Transnational Traditions (Detroit: 2014). Garland, Libby. After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965 (Chicago and London: 2014). Kuznets, Simon. "Immigration of Russian Jews to the United States: Background and Structure," Perspectives in American History, vol. 9 (1975): 35-124. Lederhendler, Eli. Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism (New York and Cambridge: 2009), chapters 1-2. Lederhendler, Eli. "The Interrupted Chain: Traditional Receiver Countries, Migration Regimes, and the East European Diaspora 1918-1939," East European Jewish Affairs, vol. 44, no. 2-3 (2014): 171-186. Lederhendler, Eli. American Jewry: A New History (New York and Cambridge: 2017), chap. 2. Zahra, Tara. The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World (New York and London: 2016).
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Analýza výkonů studenta, Rozhovor
The students are required to read assigned literature and actively take part in the discussions in the seminar. 28.3. 31.3.2017 (Tuesday 13:15-16:30, Wednesday 15:00-18:15, Thursday 15:0018:15, Friday 9:45 13:00); CJS Library (Třída Svobody 26, Olomouc, 1st floor)
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