Conducted in term: 2024L

Erasmus code: 08.9

ISCED code: 0229

ECTS credits: 3

Language: Polish

Organized by: Faculty of Oriental Studies

Specialisation course 3600-7-HE4-PS2.1

The specific topics and the associated schedule of meetings are determined by the lecturer of the given cycle in accordance with their area of specialization and taking into account the current needs and interests of the students.

Term 2024L:

After focusing in the winter semester on the category of space in cultural studies - the theoretical foundations of the spatial turn and their application to Israeli spatial narratives - the summer semester will focus on the category of memory.

Beginning with a consideration of the so-called “memory boom” in the 1980s and mapping the contemporary field of memory studies, we will move on to the category of memory in Jewish-Israeli culture.

Detailed list of topics:

- Yishuv memory culture - declared rejection of diaspora vs. actual continuation of practices;
- the construction of a new national memory;
- recursivity of memory practices in the young state;
- the development of Holocaust memory as exemplified by the first commemorations;
- post-memory - the second and third generations. Contemporary memory of the Holocaust - privatization and instrumentalization;
- Commemorations of the fallen - public memory vs. private memory;
- Israeli memorial architecture - forms of commemoration, museum edifices, monumental forms and sculptures;
- Memory of religious and religious-national communities;
- Memory of the 1948 war vs. memory of the Nakba; Holocaust-Nakba comparisons in academic discourse;
- Nakba commemorations in Israel - Hok ha-Nakba and grassroots counter-practices;
- Israeli memorial activism;
- contemporary Israeli “sites of memory” as understood by the Nora (discussion).

Prerequisites (description)

Hebrew language proficiency at a minimum level of C1 and English language proficiency to read academic texts required.

Course coordinators

Maria Piekarska-Baronet

Type of course

General:

foreign languages
translation courses
obligatory courses

Term 2024L:

obligatory courses

Mode

Classroom

Learning outcomes

Having completed the course, the student:

Knowledge
- has extended knowledge of selected problems of Jewish and Israeli culture (in realms of culture and literature or language or philosophy and religion or history and socio-political issues) [K_W03].
- has detailed knowledge of current research in the realm of selected problems of judaizm and Izrael, as well as of research center dealing with those in Poland and worldwide [K_W05].
- knows and understands Israeli academic tradition (methods of analysis, interpretation and evaluation) [K_W07].

Skills:
- is capable of gaining knowledge and broadening their research skills as well as develop the capability enabling their professional career [K_U03].
- is capable of analysing the crucial phenomena within the realm of history / social-political / language / cultural status in Israel [K_U11]
- has extended skills of presenting detailed questions within the realm of culture of Judaism and Israel, in Polish and in Hebrew, including Israeli intelectual tradition [K_U18].
- can proficiently use advanced electronic and Internet tools in Polish and Hebrew [K_U21].

Social competence:
- understands the need of lifelong learning, is capable of inspiring and organizing the process of learning of other people [K_K01].
- is capable of defining aims and ways of achieving them within the realm of academic, professional and social activity
[K_K04].
- understands and appreciates the value of their own cultural tradition and heritage, as well as the tradition and heritage of Judaism and Israel
[K_K08].

Assessment criteria

Continuous assessment, attendance control, written assignments

Practical placement

n/a

Bibliography

Detailed literature is determined by the lecturer of the given cycle.

Term 2024L:

Core literature (A detailed selection of literature and materials for specific meetings will be provided to those taking the course during the semester):

Theory:

A. Erll, Kultura pamięci. Wprowadzenie, Warszawa 2018 [2011].

P. Majewski, M. Napiórkowski (red.), Antropologia pamięci. Zagadnienia i wybór tekstów, Warszawa 2018.

P. Nora, “Between Memory and History”, Representations 26, 7-25, 1989.

O.J. Dwyer and D.H. Alderman, “Memorial landscapes: analytic questions and metaphors”. GeoJournal 73, 165-178, 2008.

A. Rigney, “Plenitude, scarcity and the circulation of cultural memory”, Journal of European Studies 35(1), 11-28, 2005.

M. Saryusz-Wolska, R. Traba, (red.), Modi memorandi. Leksykon kultury pamięci, Warszawa 2014.

B. Szacka, Czas przeszły, pamięć, mit, Warszawa 2006.

A. Szpociński, “Miejsca pamięci (lieux de memoire)”. Teksty Drugie 4, 11-20, 2008.

Israel:

O. Almog, “Andartot le-chalalej milchama be-jisrael: nitu’ach semiologi”, Megamot 2, 179-210, 1992.

A. Ben-Amos and T. Hofman, ""Banu leszachrer et Majdanek": masa'ot Cahal le-Polin we-gijus zikaron ha-Szoa", Sociologia jisraelit, Bet(2), 331–54, 2011.

J.T. Baumel, ““In everlasting memory”: Individual and communal Holocaust commemoration in Israel”. Israel Affairs 1(3), 146-170, 1995.

Y. Gutman, Memory Activism. Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-Palestine, Nashville 2017.

A.H. Sa’di, and L. Abu-Lughod (eds), Nakba. Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory, New York 2007.

I. Shamir, Hancacha we-zikaron. Darka szel ha-chewra ha-jisra’elit be-jicuw nofej ha-zikaron, Tel Aviv 1996.

I. Shamir, Sochne’j hancacha be-tarbut ha-zikaron ha-jisra’elit, Tel Awiw 2000.

E. Schiller and G. Barkai (eds), „U-we-damam ha-boker ja’ale.” Zikaron we-hancacha be-jizra’el. Ariel, 2005.

T. Sorek, Palestinian Commemoration in Israel. Calendars, Monuments and Martyrs, Stanford 2015.

Y.H. Yerushalmi, Zachor: żydowska historia i żydowska pamięć, Warszawa 2014 [1983].

J. Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meanings. New Haven 1993.

Y. Zerubavel, Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition, Chicago 1995.

I. Zertal, Naród i śmierć: zagłada w dyskursie i polityce Izraela, Kraków 2010.

Notes

Term 2024L:

Required knowledge of Hebrew and English at a level that allows reading academic texts in the discipline of cultural and religious studies.

Additional information

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

Description of 3600-7-HE4-PS2.1 in USOSweb