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Zionism and Yiddish in Mandatory Palestine between 1920-1929: language as the ideological tool of Jewish nationalism
Kašeová, Karolina ; Zouplna, Jan (advisor) ; Glacová, Denisa (referee)
This thesis aims to trace the relationship between Jewish nationalism and language, assessing in particular the manner in which language was used in constructing the modern Jewish nation. I will apply the theories of nationalism to the activities of the Zionism in Mandatory Palestine between the years 1920 and 1929 and I will pay particular attention to the tools Zionists used to achieve their goals in the Mandate. The thesis will focus primarily on Zionist narratives that discredited Yiddish language and culture in particular, and diasporic culture heritage in general. Based on Liora R. Halperin's research I will argue that language reality in Mandatory Palestine was in certain way similar to diaspora language experience. A significant portion of the thesis will address to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and it's multilingual and international nature which can be understood as a betrayal of the original Zionist intention to build a Jewish national university. The thesis then culminates in an analysis of the dispute over establishing a Yiddish department at Hebrew University in 1927. This dispute represented an unprecedented interference in to an academic milieu on the part of the Zionist movement, and it also triggered strongly negative responses in the Mandate and in the diaspora. The debate...
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The Israeli Secular Society in the View of the Haredi Press
Glacová, Denisa ; Ziss, Daniel (advisor) ; Zouplna, Jan (referee)
This thesis analyses the development and characteristics of the Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) press in Israel focusing on its relationship to non-Haredi Israeli society. Firstly, the historical background of the Haredi press in both Europe and Palestine is described and its development after the establishment of the State of Israel up until 2017 is surveyed. Secondly, the main features of the press including its self-definition, self-censorship, thematic elements, and language tools are defined. Lastly, we examine the secular topics in the Haredi press and its view of secular issues. The attachments contain samples of the most popular Haredi newspapers and their supplements, chart of proportions of religious and non-religious topics, overview of the external influences on the format of date and pagination, examples of self-censorship and examples of front pages of Haredi dailies and weeklies used for our research.
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Iconography and Traditional Jewish Sources of Marc Chagall's Work: The Jerusalem Windows
Glacová, Denisa ; Sládek, Pavel (advisor) ; Boušek, Daniel (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse sources and symbolism of Marc Chagall's stained-glass windows in the synagogue of Hadaśa Medical Centre of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The first chapter deals with history of the stained-glass windows, their creation, exhibitions in Paris and New York where they were firstly introduced to public and factors of their installation in Jerusalem. The second chapter examines the subject matter of the windows: the twelve tribes of Israel, their status and characterization in books of the biblical canon. Last chapter aims to introduce the iconography of Jerusalem Windows. The subchapters identify displayed symbolism and cover it with Chagall's sources of rabbinic literature and folk art of Eastern Europe. The thesis contains visual attachment of pictures of the stained-glass windows and the scheme of their position in the synagogue. In the conclusion the thesis summarizes Chagall's main inspirational sources of the work.
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