Universität Wien

090074 UE Modern Greek Studies (UE) (2017W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 05.10. 13:30 - 15:00 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Friday 20.10. 15:00 - 17:00 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Saturday 21.10. 11:00 - 13:00 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Friday 10.11. 15:00 - 17:00 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Saturday 11.11. 11:00 - 14:00 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Friday 24.11. 15:00 - 17:00 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Saturday 25.11. 11:00 - 13:00 (Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 L3-05)
  • Friday 15.12. 15:00 - 17:00 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Saturday 16.12. 11:00 - 14:00 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Friday 12.01. 15:00 - 17:00 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Saturday 13.01. 11:00 - 13:00 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Friday 26.01. 15:00 - 17:00 (Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 L3-05)
  • Saturday 27.01. 11:00 - 13:00 (Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 L3-05)

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course will examine the history and culture of the Jews of the Balkan Peninsula in the period between the late Enlightenment (1780s) and the immediate aftermath of the Shoah (1945-1950). Through the critical analysis of various contemporaneous religious and literary texts, treaties, laws and political accounts, this course aims to both explore the key events and themes of Balkan Jewish History and to situate this history within the wider historical experience of European Jewry.
After initially exploring the origins of Balkan Jewry, with its diverse and overlapping Sephardi, Ashkenazi and Romaniot traditions, the course will examine Jewish institutions of self-government as well as Jewish relations with the surrounding Gentile society. Particular attention will be paid to the contentious questions of assimilation, religious reform, secular education, legal emancipation, Zionism and political and racial antisemitism. The course will close with the Second World War, the implementation of the Final Solution in the Balkans and the reemergence of Jewish life after the Shoah.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

This course will be taught in English. An understanding of oral presentations and written texts in English is required.
Assessment will be based on regular class participation in the discussion of assigned texts (30%), one short oral presentation in class (40%) and a final paper in English (ca. 3000 words) on one of the topics of the course (30%).

Examination topics

Reading list

The basic reading for this course is: BENBASSA Esther/ RODRIGUE Aron (eds.), Sephardi Jewry. A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community 14th- 20th Centuries, Berkeley, 2000.
A full reading list will be provided during the first meeting.

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