Course: Cultural and Historical Studies - Seminar

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Course title Cultural and Historical Studies - Seminar
Course code JUD/1K2
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
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
History and Literature of the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) in Central Europe 18.2. Introduction 25.2. Enlightenment and Haskalah: Defining the Boundaries - Immanuel Kant, "Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?" (1784) - Moses Mendelssohn, "Über die Frage: was heißt aufklären?" (1784) English translations in: James Schmidt (Ed.), What is Enlightenment? (Kant, p 58, Mendelssohn, p 53). 11.3. Inclusion, Tolerance, Productivization? - Christian Wilhelm Dohm, Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Juden, Berlin 1781 - Edict of Tolerance, Joseph II (1782) - Statues concerning the organization of Jews, Alexander I (1804) English translations in: The Jew in the Modern World, Paul Mendes-Flohr/Jehuda Reinharz (Eds.), Oxford 1988 (Dohm, p 28, Joseph II, p 36, Alexander I, p 375) Ignaz Jeitteles, "Rede an der Wiege eines achttägigen Kindes", Sulamith 5 (1817), English translation in: The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia, Wilma Iggers (Ed.), Detroit 1992, pp 73-75. 18.3. Judaism as a Religious Denomination? - Moses Mendelssohn, "On the Curtailment of Jewish Religious Autonomy" (1782) in: The Jew in the Modern World, Paul Mendes-Flohr/Jehuda Reinharz (Eds.), Oxford 1988, pp 87-90. - David Friedländer, "On Self-Development and the Abolishment of Jewish Autonomy" (1792), in: The Jew in the Modern World, Paul Mendes-Flohr/Jehuda Reinharz (Eds.), Oxford 1988, pp 90-91. - Salomon Maimon, An Autobiography (1792-93), Translated from German by J. Clark Murray, chap. 24. 25.3. The Language Question - , , ", ' 160-161 or - Edward Breuer/David Sorkin, "Moses Mendelssohn's First Hebrew Publication: An Annotated Translation of the Kohelet Musar", in: Leo Baeck Institute-Yearbook XLVIII (2003), 8-10. - Isaac Dov Levinsohn, "Yiddish is a corrupt Jargon", English translation in: The Jew in the Modern World, Paul Mendes-Flohr/Jehuda Reinharz (Eds.), Oxford 1988, p 402 1.4. Early Hebrew Press: Kohelet Musar, Ha-Me'assef - Edward Breuer/David Sorkin, "Moses Mendelssohn's First Hebrew Publication: An Annotated Translation of the Kohelet Musar", in: Leo Baeck Institute-Yearbook XLVIII (2003), 3-7. - Isaak Euchel, "Nachal HaBesor", in: Isaak Euchel, Vom Nutzen der Aufklärung: Schriften zur Haskala, Herausgegeben, übersetzt und kommentiert von Andreas Kennecke, Düsseldorf: Parerga 2001, 7-27 (Deut.); 232-230 (Hebr.), English translation in: The Jew in the Modern World, Paul Mendes-Flohr/Jehuda Reinharz (Eds.), Oxford 1988, p 80 15.4. Early German Press: Jüdischdeutsche Monatschrift, Sulamith - [Ignaz Jeitteles], "Eine Rede", in: Jüdischdeutsche Monatschrift, Adar (1802) or Ruth Kestenberg-Gladstein, "A Voice from the Prague Enlightenment", LBI [= Leo Baeck Institute] Year Book IX (1964), 295-304. - Joseph Wolf, "Inhalt, Zweck und Titel dieser Zeitschrift", in: Sulamith 1,1 (1806), 1-11 (www.compactmemory.de), English translation in: The Jew in the Modern World, Paul Mendes-Flohr/Jehuda Reinharz (Eds.), Oxford 1988, p 85. 22.4. Disciplining Discourse: The Physician and the Rabbi - Baruch Jeitteles, Die Kuhpockenimpfung: eine Predigt von Rabbi Benedict Jeitteles, Prag 1804 or - , , 1821 or - David Ruderman, "Some Jewish Responses to Smallpox Prevention", Aleph 1 (2000) 29.4. Modern Jewish Education: - Naphtali Herz Wessely, Worte der Wahrheit und des Friedens an die gesammte jüdische Nation. Aus dem hebräischen nach der Berliner Auflage [von David Friedländer], Wien 1782, English translation in: The Jew in the Modern World, Paul Mendes-Flohr/Jehuda Reinharz (Eds.), Oxford 1988, p 70. 13.5. Life Stories of Maskilim: Salomon Maimon - Salomon Maimon, An Autobiography (1792-93), Translated from German by J. Clark Murray, chap. 4, 10, 13, 15, 19, 26. - Louise Hecht, "'How the power of thought can develop within a human mind'. Salomon Maimon, Peter Beer, Lazarus Bendavid: Autobiographies of Maskilim Written in German", LBI Year Book XLVII (2002), 21-38.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the seminars is to offer an overview of the culture, art and literary heritage of Jewish communities.
The resulting competence after passing this module comprises further knowledge of questions regarding Jewish cultural, especially literary heritage, the ability to analyse a text/ scientific study, which is complex with respect to content and language, and to react to it through a short paper.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Dialog, Seminar Work

Students are obliged to prepare for every seminar (set reading list) and participate actively in discussions. They will obtain credits at the end of the seminar.
Recommended literature
  • + V závislosti na tématu semináře/Depending on the topic of seminar.


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 Studies. Jewish History and Culture (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: -