DHUM 25A29 - Eastern European Jewishness: Societies and State Policies

This course, based on creative pedagogical approach, aims to provide an exploration of the relationship to Eastern European Jewishness, both secular and religious, from the end of the 18th century to the present, marked by profound social, economic, political, and cultural transformations. The complex relationship between all of them reflects on the evolutions of Jewish singularity, paradigmatic to other minorities. The goal of this interdisciplinary seminar is to introduce to a modern encounter between Jews, societies, and States, both in culture and politics, including the consequences of the Holocaust and its legacy in the present. It offers a precious key to understand the diversity of contemporary debates on singular vs. universal rights, traditions vs. modernity, rural vs. urban cultures, religiousness vs. secularity and beyond that, the condition of modernity in Europe. We will focus on monuments in public spaces and museographical practices. As with last year, this work can be published as a scientific publication, depending on the results achieved.
Ewa TARTAKOWSKY
Séminaire
English
No required
Spring 2024-2025
A creative work on a virtual monument: work conducted in small groups (8/20) The Secular Judaism Museum project: work conducted in small groups (5/20) A counterfactual narrative: work in a small groups (5/20) Participation in class: individual (2/20)
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Janicka Elżbieta (2015) The Square of Polish Innocence: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and its symbolic topography, East European Jewish Affairs, 45:2-3, 200-214.
Bartal Israel, The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
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Janicka Elżbieta & Żukowski Tomasz, Philo-semitic violence. New Polish narrative about Jews after 2000, Warsaw, IBL PAN, 2016.
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