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The Role of the Jewish Cultural Mediators in Prague Democratic Media between the Woldwars
Bosnovičová, Zuzana ; Zelená, Alena (advisor) ; Handl, Vladimír (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the situation of the Jewish minority in the first Czechoslovak Republic concentrating on Prague as a unique case of the coexistence of the Czech, German and Jewish people. The aim of the research is to analyze the role of democratic German-language periodicals in the presentation of Zionism and Judaism based on the contributions of both Jewish and non-Jewish authors, the so-called intercultural mediators, and to answer questions about the extent to which the ideas of Zionism were presented in the democratic media, and how the question of Jewish identity was addressed in the German- language liberal press. The thesis is profiled as a political-historical and cultural-historical study. The research method chosen in its elaboration is the unique case study method. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the relations of these media to Judaism and Zionism, as well as the relations of Jews and Non-Jews to the issues of national identity, based on selected texts by both Jewish and non- Jewish writers and journalists. The analysis itself comprises a total of nine texts, and the identity of the author does not play a role in this case. The Jews in Prague mostly mastered German and Czech perfectly, and thus became translators and cultural mediators between the two nations. The...
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The History of German Settlement on the Territory of Spiš and the Contribution of the German minority to the Cultural Development of Slovakia from the 13th until the 19th Century. A Paper on the History of Carpathian Germans in Slovakia.
Bosnovičová, Zuzana ; Tvrdík, Milan (advisor) ; Glosíková, Viera (referee)
Univerzita Karlova Filozofická fakulta Ústav germánských studií Bachelor thesis: The History of German Settlement on the Territory of Spiš and the Contribution of the German minority to the Cultural Development of Slovakia from the 13th until the 19th century. A Paper on the History of Carpathian Germans in Slovakia. Author: Zuzana Bosnovičová Supervisor: Prof. PhDr. Milan Tvrdík, CSc. Year: 2017 Language: German Number of pages: 64 Abstract The aim of the bachelor thesis is to elucidate the issue of settlement of Slovakia by the German minority from the period of the Middle Ages until the end of the 19th century. The work focuses on the Spiš area and explains the cultural development of the region in the context of the German colonization of Eastern Europe. The process of colonizing Slovakia began in the 12th century. Settlers from Germany brought more sophisticated legal system to the country and created towns according to the German model. In the Middle Ages, three territories were formed in the territory of today's Slovakia, where the Germans made up the majority of the population. Spiš, as the largest of them, is distinguished by a large number of art-historical monuments from the Gothic and Renaissance periods. Thanks to the advantageous location, Spiš towns benefited from trade, which attracted many...
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