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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Moravian Jewish History This course will examine the history of the Jews of Moravia (and Austrian Silesia), with a particular focus on the 18th and 19th centuries. It will explore cultural, religious, economic, demographic and legal developments, combining a close reading of primary sources with the perusal of the latest scholarship on the topic. Block seminar: 12. - 15. 3. 2015, Michael Miller Block seminar Moravian Jewish History Michael Miller - in the CJS library (Tř. Svobody 26, room 2.43), terms: Thursday čtvrtek (12.3.): 15:00-16:30, 16:45-18:15 Friday (13.3.): 9:45-11:15, 11:30-13:00, 15:00-16:30 Sunday (15.3.): field trip 8:00 - cca 19, meeting on Třída Svobody 26, Olomouc (before the building).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
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Learning outcomes
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Moravian Jewish History This course will examine the history of the Jews of Moravia (and Austrian Silesia), with a particular focus on the 18th and 19th centuries. It will explore cultural, religious, economic, demographic and legal developments, combining a close reading of primary sources with the perusal of the latest scholarship on the topic.
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Prerequisites
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This seminar is for all the students of the Jewish Studies and for all the other students who would be interested.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
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Recommended literature
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" Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Juden in der Č.S.R. " Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Juden in der Č.S.R., 1929-1938.
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Ezra Mendelsohn. (1987). The Jews of East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars, p. 130-169. Bloomington.
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Hillel J.Kieval. (2000). Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands. Berkeley.
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Hillel J.Kieval. (1988). The Making of Czech Jewry: National Conflict and Jewish Society in Bohemia, 1870-1918. New York.
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Louise Hecht. (2008). Ein jüdischer Aufklärer in Böhmen: Der Pädagoge und Reformer Peeter Beer, 1758-1838. Köln.
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Louise Hecht. (2005). "The Beginning of Modern Jewish Historiography: Prague - A Center on the Periphery," Jewish History, Haifa 19 (2005), p. 347-373. Haifa.
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Marsha Rozenblit. (2001). Reconstructing a National Identity. The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I. Oxford.
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Michael L. Miller. (2011). Rabbis and Revolution: Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation, p. 11-59. Stanford University Press.
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Michal Frankl. (2007). Emancipace od Židů. Český antisemitismus na konci 19. století. Litomyšl-Praha.
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Ruth Kestenberg-Gladstein. (1969). Die Geschichte der Juden in den böhmischen Ländern, Bd. 1: Das Zeitalter der Aufklärung, 1780-1830. Tübingen.
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S. H. Lieben. (1929). "Die Ramaschak-Chronik," Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Juden in der Č.S.R., 1 (1929), p. 369-409.
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