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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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Mapam vs. Mapai: Issues of Foreign Policy Orientation and Social Form of the State Israel, 1947-1954
Benešová, Veronika ; Zouplna, Jan (advisor) ; Boušek, Daniel (referee)
The present thesis deals with the attitudes of two Israeli left-wing parties, Mapaj and Mapam, to the conflict between East and West between 1947 and 1954. As both of these parties had socialist roots, the main emphasis is on their relationships with the communist bloc. After presenting the general historical context against which these parties formulated their positions, their relationships with USSR and the socialist world are compared. Regarding Mapaj, the thesis follows its gradual abandonment of the policy of non-alignment to adopting openly pro-Western positions. Concerning the pro-soviet-oriented Mapam, which in the mentioned period was one of the main opposition parties, the thesis focuses both on the inter-party conflict with Mapaj and on the increasing tensions between the party's factions. These phenomena are illustrated by examples of specific foreign political issues that the newly created state had to deal with. Special attention is paid to the Prague trials affair which marked one of the peaks of the dispute between the two parties and pointed to a strong ideological discrepancy inside Mapam
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The integration challenge of Russian-speaking Jews in Israel
Getta, Mariia ; Zouplna, Jan (advisor) ; Žonca, Milan (referee)
This thesis discusses the question of mass migration of persons of Jewish origin from the Soviet Union to Israel roughly between the years 1989 and 1992, within the framework of the so-called "post-Soviet Aliyah". The position of these newcomers and their integration into Israeli society is the main topic of concern. While the initial part of the work provides an overview of Jewish life in the Russian Empire/Soviet Union, the first of the main sections discusses their political attitudes and activities after their arrival to Israel. The topic of the second of three main sections delves into the issues of religion among the immigrants in question, while the last section discusses their education and qualification as well as their application in Israel. This work attempts to depict the influence of specific conditions under the Soviet regime where Jewish identity underwent a process of drastic transformation and where Jews retained awareness of a specific ethnicity although culturally assimilated. This transformation set the stage for the formation of a specific group of immigrants who arrived in Israel from the Soviet Union in the time of its actual collapse and political disintegration.
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Contemporary Hebrew Dystopian Novel
Vlk, Michal ; Boušek, Daniel (advisor) ; Zouplna, Jan (referee)
This thesis aims to provide a thematic analysis of the leading Hebrew dystopian texts in contemporary Israel and to present a broader context of utopian thought within which these texts are best understood. The research attempts to explore and examine how the various anxieties and fears of Israeli society are reflected upon in contemporary Hebrew dystopian novels and how the Israeli reality is transformed and re-imagined, by means of authors' thought experiments, in the selected narratives. Dystopian fiction is an extremely useful tool for cultural studies inasmuch as it constitutes a direct interaction with the contemporary culture in that it describes an entire society suffering from oppressive and disastrous conditions which grow out of certain real-world social, political, and economic trends. Zionist utopian fiction which sought to imagine a Jewish homeland waned soon after the creation of the State of Israel and the local realities set the narrative on a much darker and more pessimistic course. Today many Israeli authors project a dystopian and (post-) apocalyptic future from the present Israeli reality by examining the current cultural and political situation. The thesis is, then, also an exploration of how these dystopian narratives come to terms with the current Israeli reality and what...
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Formation of the Israeli political elites, 1919-1949
Zouplna, Jan ; Gombár, Eduard (advisor) ; Wanner, Jan (referee) ; Šedinová, Jiřina (referee)
The submitted dissertation seeks to analyze the political process associated with the origins of the lsraeli polity during the British Mandate over Palestine. Particular attention is given to the political turmoil within two rival blocks: the Zionist Labor movement and the Revisionist movement. The structure of the dissertation reflects the fact that Haim Weizmann, the longserving president of the Zionist Organization, and his then dominant General Zionists were sidelined at the turn of 1920s and 1930s by the two activist trends of Zionist politics that came to dominate Israeli society from that time forward. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The integration challenge of Russian-speaking Jews in Israel
Getta, Mariia ; Zouplna, Jan (advisor) ; Žonca, Milan (referee)
This thesis discusses the question of mass migration of persons of Jewish origin from the Soviet Union to Israel roughly between the years 1989 and 1992, within the framework of the so-called "post-Soviet Aliyah". The position of these newcomers and their integration into Israeli society is the main topic of concern. While the initial part of the work provides an overview of Jewish life in the Russian Empire/Soviet Union, the first of the main sections discusses their political attitudes and activities after their arrival to Israel. The topic of the second of three main sections delves into the issues of religion among the immigrants in question, while the last section discusses their education and qualification as well as their application in Israel. This work attempts to depict the influence of specific conditions under the Soviet regime where Jewish identity underwent a process of drastic transformation and where Jews retained awareness of a specific ethnicity although culturally assimilated. This transformation set the stage for the formation of a specific group of immigrants who arrived in Israel from the Soviet Union in the time of its actual collapse and political disintegration.
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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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Formation of the Israeli political elites, 1919-1949
Zouplna, Jan ; Gombár, Eduard (advisor) ; Wanner, Jan (referee) ; Šedinová, Jiřina (referee)
The submitted dissertation seeks to analyze the political process associated with the origins of the lsraeli polity during the British Mandate over Palestine. Particular attention is given to the political turmoil within two rival blocks: the Zionist Labor movement and the Revisionist movement. The structure of the dissertation reflects the fact that Haim Weizmann, the longserving president of the Zionist Organization, and his then dominant General Zionists were sidelined at the turn of 1920s and 1930s by the two activist trends of Zionist politics that came to dominate Israeli society from that time forward. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Formation of the Israeli political elites, 1919-1949
Zouplna, Jan ; Gombár, Eduard (advisor) ; Wanner, Jan (referee) ; Šedinová, Jiřina (referee)
The submitted dissertation seeks to analyze the political process associated with the origins of the lsraeli polity during the British Mandate over Palestine. Particular attention is given to the political turmoil within two rival blocks: the Zionist Labor movement and the Revisionist movement. The structure of the dissertation reflects the fact that Haim Weizmann, the longserving president of the Zionist Organization, and his then dominant General Zionists were sidelined at the turn of 1920s and 1930s by the two activist trends of Zionist politics that came to dominate Israeli society from that time forward. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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