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Lecturer(s)
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Visi Tamás, doc. Ph.D., M.A.
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Course content
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The Representation of the Holocaust in Israeli Society and Cinema Anita Shapira and many other Israeli historians claimed that in the first decades of Israel's existence, the memory of the Holocaust was repressed and the survivors' fate stigmatized for the sake of a new Israeli identity. The identity of the manly and belligerent 'new Hebrew' was constructed as the explicit opposite of the weak and abused 'Diaspora Jew', epitomized in Jewish Holocaust victims. As a consequence, the memories of Holocaust survivors were displaced and stigmatized. An intriguing by-product of that process was the so-called 'Stalag-fiction', pornographic literature in the disguise of survivors' memoirs that stimulated the fantasy of adolescent Israeli. This displacement gradually ceased after the Eichmann trial (1961), when survivors could, for the first time, make their voice heard in public. From the 1970s onwards, the Zionist ideals were critically reviewed and Israel's abuse of survivors was harshly criticized. Finally, the second and third generation raised the question of its meaning in and for Israeli identity anew. This course tracks the ambiguity of Israeli society regarding the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors in their midst through six decades and discusses its many facets, based on selected movies. Includes screening of movies. Meetings: 1 October 2014, 15.00-16.45 15 October 2014, 15.00-18.30 5 November 2014, 15.00-18.30 19 November 2014, 15.00-18.30 3 December 2014, 15.00-18.30 17 December 2014, 15.00-18.30
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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History seminars dealing with Jewish history intend to introduce chosen aspects of social, political, economic and cultural history of Jews. A particular emphasis is placed on an interdisciplinary approach to individual topics.
Reading of scholarly literature in English, training of discussion skills, critical assessment of movies.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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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.
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Recommended literature
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+ V závislosti na tématu semináře/Depending on the topic of seminar.
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