Poles and Jews - Contact Zones 3001-C4TN-LW3

Through this course, students will gain knowledge of Polish-Jewish relations in the 20th century.
Students will be able to apply the concept of the “contact zone” (M.L. Pratt).

Social skills related to the perception of cultural differences will also be an important focus.

Attendance (for Alliance 4EU+ students: online), preparation (including readings), and active participation in discussions will be required.

1. The category of contact zone - the theory of M.L. Pratt - introduction to the study of Polish-Jewish contacts - Eugenia Prokop-Janiec;
2. Bałaban on 1863 and: Josef Opatoshu, In Polish Forests or Stories - https://cbj.jhi.pl/documents/1320671/1/
3. Emil Tenenbaum, Backgrounds - novel
4. Jews - soldiers, participants in the struggle for Polish independence - various texts
5. Izrael Rabon, The street (Yiddish: Di gas)
6. Adolf Rudnicki, Summer, novel
7. Szymon Rudnicki, Jews in the Parliament of the Second Polish Republic and this: Falanga (excerpts on culture)
8. Monika Natkowska, Anti-Jewish Occurrences at Warsaw University - and: excerpts from books about the universities of Poznań and Vilnius
9. Henryk Ulaszyn, The Language of Thievery, and Mateusz Rodak, Myth and Reality (about Jewish criminals)
10. Julian Stryjkowski, Voices in the Darkness or Rose - Novels
11. Bogdan Wojdowski, short story “The Path” from the volume: Little Man..... and: Made in Poland. Narrated by Stanislaw Likiernik
12. The chosen nation. Cracovia-pany. Sports as a contact zone. Also: Szczepan Twardoch, King
13. Joanna Wiszniewicz, Life intersected - selected excerpts
14. Leopold Neuger, Brocats
15. Jarosław Kurski, Forefathers' Eve and and dybbuks; Monika Sznajderman, Pepper Counterfeiters

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

• Description of 3001-C4TN-LW3 in USOSweb