Universität Wien

060032 SE Images of Antisemitism (2023W)

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Details

max. 60 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Thursday 05.10. 18:15 - 20:15 Digital
Thursday 12.10. 18:15 - 20:15 Digital
Thursday 19.10. 18:15 - 20:15 Digital
Thursday 09.11. 18:15 - 20:15 Digital
Thursday 16.11. 18:15 - 20:15 Digital
Thursday 23.11. 18:15 - 20:15 Digital
Thursday 30.11. 18:15 - 20:15 Digital
Thursday 07.12. 18:15 - 20:15 Digital
Thursday 14.12. 18:15 - 20:15 Digital
Thursday 11.01. 18:15 - 20:15 Digital
Thursday 18.01. 18:15 - 20:15 Digital
Thursday 25.01. 18:15 - 20:15 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Images were and are one of the main transmittors of Jew hatred. This seminar class will analyze antisemitic images in the context of the ideological history of antisemitism. It will further ask, to which extent antisemitic images contributed and contribute to the spread of Jew hatred. Ideally students should attend my lecture class "The Ideology of Jew-hatred" as well.

Assessment and permitted materials

Written and oral presentation of a research project

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Regular participation, and writing of two essays as well as a research project that is presended both orally and in writing.

Examination topics

Students should demonstrate the ability to analyze antisemitic images in the context of the (ideological) history of antisemitism

Reading list

Eduard Fuchs, Die Juden in der Karikatur: Ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte: Mit 307 Textillustrationen und 31 schwarzen und farbigen Beilagen (Berlin: Verlag Klaus Guhl, 1985; Nachdruck der Ausgabe München: Albert Langen, 1921)
Debra Higgs Strickland, Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003).
Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien (ed.), Die Macht der Bilder: Antisemitische Vorurteile und Mythen (Wien: Picus Verlag, 1995)
Joel Kotek, Cartoons and Extremism: Israel and the Jews in Ara band Western Media (trans. Alisa Jaffa; Edgware: Vallentine Mitchell, 2008)
Sara Lipton, Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014)
Ralf Palandt (ed.), Rechtsextremismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus in Comics (Berlin: Archiv der Jugendkulturen Verlag, 2011)
Heinz Schreckenberg, Die Juden in der Kunst Europas: Ein historischer Bildatlas (Göttingen:Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 1996)
Heinz Schreckenberg, Christliche Adversus-Judaeos-Bilder: Das Alte und Neue Testment im Spiegel der christlichen Kunst (Europäische Hochschulschriften 3.650; Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 1999)
Johannes Valentin, Antisemitische Karikaturen und Cartoons: Fremdbilder-Selbstbilder (Hohenems: Jüdisches Museum, 2005).
Rose-Carol Washton Long, Matthew Baigell, Milly Heyd (eds.), Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2010)

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Last modified: Fr 27.10.2023 15:47