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Constructions of Memory: Post-Holocaust Memoir Literature in the Czech Discursive Space
Novotná, Hedvika ; Salner, Peter (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Vrzgulová, Monika (referee)
Constructions of Memory: Post-Holocaust Memoir Literature in the Czech Discursive Space Mgr. Hedvika Novotná Abstract Using the paradigm of social constructivism, the dissertation investigates the negotiation of the past within the dynamics of communicative and cultural memory. It focuses on the discursive space of the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, following selected discursive frames, in which the Jewish past is constructed in the Czech discursive space. Since its research focus is an autobiographical literature of Czech post- holocaust Jewish authors as well as the Czech academic field that deals with the Jewish past, the dissertation consists of several intermingling narratives. It analyses the nature of post-holocaust autobiographies, and how they capture the period of the First and Second Republics, the post-war period, the political trials of the 1950s, and the so-called normalization period. The narratives of the past emerging from these memoirs are theorized from the perspective of memory studies, and related to the processes of formation of Jewish studies, and to the discourses about the Jewish past in the Czech space. In this regard, the dissertation discusses the following theoretical concepts and issues present in the Czech academic discourse, and related to...
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A look at the day-to-day life of Jewish communities in 18th century Moravia as viewed through archive sources. A historical-anthropological analysis
Habáňová, Tereza ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Ebelová, Ivana (referee) ; Salner, Peter (referee)
The dissertation entitled: "A Look at the Day-to-day Life of Jewish Communities in 18th Century Moravia as Viewed through Archive Sources. A Historical- Anthropological Analysis." examines several aspects of the everyday life of Jewish communities in Moravia, during the period from the beginning of the 18th century until the end of 1770s. The focus of the dissertation consists of three main chapters examining the economic strategies of Jewish inhabitants, demographic and economic strategies of Jewish families and interactions between Moravia's Jewish and Christian inhabitants. The dissertation focuses within these areas on the practices of Moravian Jewish communities particularly in terms of reactions and adaptations to specific life conditions. These conditions, shaped throughout the history primarily by the impact of state power (legislation), resulted in forms very different from those of the majority Christian population. The dissertation presents results of textual analysis based on archive documents acquired by the author's own research in various archives in the Czech Republic during 2006 - 2010.
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