On the Crossroads: Jews, Art and Culture in Southeastern Europe

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Course description

Term:  First semester (October 18, 2023 – January 21, 2024)

Lecturer: Prof. Mirjam Rajner

Type:  Zoom

Language of instruction: English

Time: Thursday 10:00-11:30 (Israel time) -- 9:00-10:30 (Central European Time)

Description: 

Southeastern Europe is an understudied area in both Jewish and European studies. Although this fascinating multi-ethnic and multi-religious region is located at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Balkan, Central, and East European worlds that were once part of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, and includes the Ashkenazic-Sephardic fault-line, it has not yet received sufficient scholarly attention. The course will offer an overview of the Jewish life in the region while paying special attention to the Jewish visual culture and arts that developed in its urban centers, in the 19th and the 20th centuries.

During the course the students will learn about the main Jewish communities in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Vojvodina; the synagogues built in the region in the course of the 19th and the 20the centuries; and the art created by the artists of Ashkenazic and Sephardic origin active in Zagreb, Sarajevo and Belgrade in the interwar period, during the Holocaust and in its immediate aftermath.

Requirements: Written paper (6-8 pp.); the topics with instructions will be given by mid-December. Papers due by March 1, 2024. 10% - attendance (open cameras) and active participation (allowed to miss 2 classes), 90% - paper.

 

Application form (open until 30 September 2023)

 

 

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