Universität Wien

070149 SE Seminar zu Geschichte (PM 4) (2017S)

Israel- Society, history and politics

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 29.05. 09:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Monday 29.05. 13:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Tuesday 30.05. 09:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 31.05. 09:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 31.05. 13:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Friday 02.06. 09:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 07.06. 09:00 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Course Description
The course deals with the Israeli society and focused in particular upon the construction of the Israeli historical narrative as an identity-building narrative, intending to inculcate a collective memory to a diverse society. We will focus on key events and essential representations that shaped the collective identity of the Israeli society from the beginning of the Zionist movement till the present. We will also discuss the changes that the Israeli society experiences in the last generation and how it affects its politics and culture. Among other topics, we will discuss issues such as religious Zionism, post-Zionism, privatization and Americanization, holocaust's increasing role in the Israeli historical narrative and national memory, diversity and multiculturalism, and the enduring conflict with the Palestinians and the Arab world.

Detailed Topics

Week no. 1:
The Israeli-Zionist Narrative: The creation of Collective Memory. Vision of National Revival Romantic Dreams and the Quest for a New Jew.

Week no. 2:
The Creation of the Zionist Community and Hebrew Culture in Palestine: 1882-1948

Week no. 3
1948 The War of Independence and the Creation of the Jewish State. The Palestinian Nakba. Sabra ; The Generation of 1948

Week no. 4:
The Fifties and Sixties: Enlisted and Collective Culture in a context of Diverse Society: Challenges and Difficulties

Week no. 5:
1967-1973: From Victory, Power and Messianic Dreams to Disillusionment and Political Changes: Transformation of Identity.

Week no. 6:
The Role of the Holocaust in creation the Israeli historical Narrative

Week no. 7:
Americanization and Privatization: The Cultural Dimension

Week no.8:
From One to Many: Toward a Multi-Cultural Society?

Week no. 9:
The Challenge of Messianic-Zionism and Post-Zionism

Week no. 10
War and Peace: Arabs Palestinians vs. Jewish Israelis: An enduring conflict.

Assessment and permitted materials

Requirements and Grades

All students are required to attend lectures and discussion sections.
Grades will be based on the following:
1. Attendance and participation (20% of final grade)
2. Final take home exam covering all lectures, and required readings for the session (80% of final grade)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Required Readings

Shlomo Avineri, The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State (New York: Basic Books, 1981, Introduction

Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995), 13-36, 39-47, 147-167

Oz Almog, The Sabra: The Creation of the New Jew, trans. by Haim Watzman (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2000), 35-45, 185-197.

Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Eyal Naveh eds., Side By Side: Parallel Histories of Israel Palestine (PRIME, New Press, 2012), 2-25, 108-133, 290-343

Anita Shapira ed., Israeli Identity in Transition (Westport Connecticut, London: Praeger, 2004), 31-108, 137-162, 215-256

Eyal Naveh, `The ‘51st State’: Reflections on the American Influence over the Israeli National Discourse`, Annales du Monde Anglophone, 13 (1er semestre 2001), 65-80

Robert I. Rotberg ed., Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict, (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006), 47-71, 244-270

Laurence J. Silberstein, The Post-Zionist Debate: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture (New York and London: Routledge, 1999), 1-14, 89-126

Association in the course directory

MA Geschichte (2014) PM 4 (6 ECTS)
Diplom UF GSP: Politikgeschichte (6 ECTS)

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