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Women in traditional Judaism focusing on tradition and customs of the Jewish community in Prague from the First republic to the present
Příplatová, Silvie ; Nosek, Bedřich (advisor) ; Holubová, Markéta (referee)
This diploma thesis outlines the view of women's life in traditional Judaism on the territory of the capital city of Prague. The work is not only focused on Jewish history from the First Republic to the present, the development of the social coexistence of Czechs and Jews over the last two centuries, but also on the preserved traditions and contemporary practices of Jewish women. The aim of my work is to clarify the traditions and customs that have been observed and changed in Prague and have evolved over time, under the influence of the surrounding world or migration. All this, with the emphasis on the fact that even though the life of pious Jewish women is full of statutes and provisions, these women are still given great respect, family, religion, culture, or society. Many years of thought and attitudes have persisted in the Jewish population in the form of dogmatism. On the part of the Czech population, motivated religious, social and even superstitious prejudices persisted. An unobtrusive observer may seem from the outside view that the lives of women in traditional Judaism or the practices of women in Prague since the First Republic are stable and unchanging. These ceremonies and practices have passed in the past with some developments that have culminated in the territory of Prague in the...
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Media reflection of minister Alois Rašín and his assassination in contemporary daily newspapers
Totušek, Jaroslav ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Končelík, Jakub (referee)
This masters disertation is focused on an important Czech politician Alois Rašín and his reflection in the period daily newspapers. The researched period is from October 1922 to February 1923. Three important events related to Rašín happened in that period - his second appointment as the minister of finances and his assassination. In the first chapter I write about Rašín as a person and politician. In the second chapter I focus on the political situation during the First republic and Rašín's uneasy relations to others. The third chapter is the research I do using the period daily newspapers. I epitomize my findings in the summary.
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La Nation Tchèque: the construction of Czechoslovak nation in France
Krejčová, Jana ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Bauer, Paul (referee)
During the First World War intense diplomatic efforts of T. G. Masaryk and his companions helped to create circumstances for the foundation of the Czechoslovak independent state. Extensive propaganda was an important element of the activities of the Czechoslovak National Council, the official organ of Masaryk's group, based in Paris. Revue La Nation Tchèque was a crucial communication channel targeting the French audience. By the means of thematic analysis and elements of historic-discourse analysis, this thesis aims to unveil crucial argumentative lines which were supposed to create the idea of Czechoslovak nation in the mind of the French people. The first chapter introduces the theoretical and methodological framework and deals with the different concepts of nations, it defines propaganda as a type of political communication and presents the approach of discursive creation of national community. In the second part, revue La Nation Tchèque is briefly characterised together with its redaction background. The last part of the thesis is dedicated to the thematic analysis which resulted in three main topics. The first topic focuses on the concept of national history, description of Czechoslovak national character and develops on the relationship with the West European history. The prevailing motive...
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Czechoslovak Red Citadels between Two Wars
Vrba, Jakub ; Rákosník, Jakub (advisor) ; Spurný, Matěj (referee)
(in English): The thesis focuses on the regional organisation of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) in the Liberec region. In the political system of interwar Czechoslovakia, KSČ was specific in that its members hailed from all local ethnic groups. It was therefore, above all, the local Germans who formed the major part of the Liberec organisation. In the 1920s in some districts within the region, KSČ received up to one third of all votes cast, while throughout the 1930s, its support diminished rapidly in favour of the Sudetendeutsche Partei (SdP). The thesis seeks to clarify the causes of this sudden drop. It identifies as one of the major factors the mutually contradictory identities which were being formed within the local branch of the movement, i.e. the communist, the German and the Czechoslovak identity. These three came into alignment, to a certain degree, only shortly before the Munich Agreement with the emergence of a communist Czechoslovak narrative established on a supraethnic basis. The study also takes note of the developments in the KSČ headquarters in Prague as these had significant impact on the peripheral Liberec organization and further places the problem within the context of the First Czechoslovak Republic and its society. The policies and politics of the central...
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Red Prague: Causes of High Electoral Success Rate of CPC between Two Wars
Melichar, Bohumil ; Rákosník, Jakub (advisor) ; Holubec, Stanislav (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is analysis of roots KPC's successes in elections among Prague voters during interwar period. In the centre of the interest is readiness of historical actors for political activism, active participation in demonstrations and the reasons of less evident support, which was manifested through preferences of voters. By methods of social and cultural history this work reconstructs social nets of participants, supporters, activists and voters of KPC during interwar period with special attention on cause of shift individuals toward communist movement. The complex built from ideological discourse and social representations of power of working class, which was transmitted through organizational structures of party, was created with intention to make working class with strong political consciousness - in the other words, with purpose to create group of convinced communists. To catch the process of construction of communist movement members mentality in point of intersection with activity of communist organisations focused to improve of poor lives of Prague periphery inhabitants can offer new point of view on specific position of communist movement in interwar Czechoslovak society. Key words: Communist movement, slums, interwar Prague, election, political activism, ideological...
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Periodical press in Kutná Hora region during the period 1918-1948
Pražáková, Hana ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Knapík, Jiří (referee)
The master thesis Periodical Press in the Kutná Hora Region during the period 1918 - 1948 focuses on the changes of the structure of periodical press in the Kutná Hora region in the specified time range. First, the definition of the Kutná Hora region with its demographic and geographic characteristics is provided. As the structure of the periodical press in the Kutná Hora region during the era of the First Republic was based on the situation before the First World War, the landscape of the media of the Kutná Hora region before 1918 is described. Kutná Hora region had been already rich in periodical press of political parties as well as the press of non-political organizations in that time and the same situation applies also for the interwar period. After the Munich agreement until the beginning of the occupation of Czechoslovakia the structure of the political press was changing at first and finally all the periodicals of political parties ceased to exist. By the march 1943, also the press of the non-political organization disappeared. In 1945 the richness of the prewar periodical press situation was not renewed. Most of the political parties shifted their weekly newspapers away from the Kutná Hora region and the non-political organizations were not allowed to publish their magazine due to the lack of...
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Public in Vejprnice during the First Czechoslavak Republic
Vedral, Patrik ; Štaif, Jiří (advisor) ; Bernášek, Bohumír (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the village Vejprnice during the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938). Its main aim is to provide a contribution to the regional history of the region of Pilsen and simultaneously research the environment of the working class in countryside. The work describes the political, professional, social, demographic, building, religious, school and association development in the interwar period. The discovered data are compared to the region of Pilsen (with surrounding towns and villiages) and with the rest of the country. Vejprnice can serve in some ways as an example of the first republic' country village. Keywords: Czechoslovakia, First Republic, regional history, region of Pilsen, social history
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Reflection of social experience in literary works of Ota Pavel
Vrchlavský, Tomáš ; Kubů, Eduard (advisor) ; Štolleová, Barbora (referee)
Bachelor thesis called Ota Pavel's Social experience reflection in his literature creation is about the personality and literature of Czech-jewish writer Ota Pavel. The goal of this thesis is to describe the picture of the social experience in a way how it was literary described by the Ota Pavel. In my thesis I observe following aspects. How it is the stance of the Jews to the major society reflected and vice versa. Further more on the example of the father of the Ota Pavel I follow up the relation of his family to the Czechoslovakia. I also describe an economy situation of the Ota Pavel and his family beginning with the first republic, following with the World War II, transitional period 1945-1948 up to the period of communism regime. Next part is about Ota Pavel's and his family experience with occupation power and anti-Semitic precaution during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. I also describe the Jew problematic in postwar Czechoslovakia in a way how the Ota Pavel reflected it based on his experience in his commemorative stories.
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How we have lived. Everyday Life in the Region of Kladno in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Niekurzáková, Kateřina ; Štaif, Jiří (advisor) ; Pavlorek, David (referee)
Bachelor thesis focuses on the everyday life of one family from the early 19th century to the eighties of the 20th century. Its aim is to document and provide closer look at everyday life and family relationships in a peasant, artisan, clerical and merchant family in the region Kladno and assess what has been considered here typical or different. The thesis attempts to trace what has changed and what has persisted in the lives of the most families between the early 19th and mid-20th century. Bachelor thesis will focus on the effects of industrialization and urbanization, the First and the Second World War and the advent of the Communist regime. Key words family, Austria-Hungary, World war 1., first republic, Word war 2., education, children, woman, everydayness
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