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060032 SE Images of Antisemitism (2025W)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 6 - Ägyptologie, Judaistik, Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie
Continuous assessment of course work
REMOTE
Moodle
Th 23.10. 15:00-17:00 Digital

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max. 50 participants
Language: German

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    Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

    • Thursday 30.10. 15:00 - 17:00 Digital
    • Thursday 06.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Digital
    • Thursday 13.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Digital
    • Thursday 20.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Digital
    • Thursday 27.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Digital
    • Thursday 04.12. 15:00 - 17:00 Digital
    • Thursday 11.12. 15:00 - 17:00 Digital
    • Thursday 18.12. 15:00 - 17:00 Digital
    • Thursday 08.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Digital
    • Thursday 15.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Digital
    • Thursday 22.01. 15:00 - 17:00 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.

    In this class students will search in the larger area of Vienna for antisemitic images and analyze the images they found, put them into their historical context and put them under critical review. Students will furthermore develop suggestion how to deal with the antisemitic images they found to counteract their message of hatred. For these purposes they will form research teams.

    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 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 27.06.2025 11:45