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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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Negative depiction of Jewry in slovak literature in the 18th and 19th centuries
Pastuszek, Ján ; Sládek, Miloš (advisor) ; Čechura, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis is focused on negative stereotypes of Jews in slovak literature in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the introduction of the thesis, we deal with an ethnic condition in Hungary in the 18th and 19th century, mainly with the Jewish population in the terriroty of today's Slovakia and it's culture and history. In the core of this thesis we focuse on personalities and works of individual authors and anti-jewish elements contained in their work from the beginning of the 18th century to the end of the 19th century. Based on the historical sources, this work denotes negative depiction of the Jews in the slovak literature and analyzes its form, causes and development in the contex with social situation in Hungary.
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Jewish identity and its development in reflexion of Slovak literature
Babúsová, Julianna ; Pátková, Jana (advisor) ; Benešová, Michala (referee)
The Jewish theme and its various aspects are slightly processed in the Slovak literature. The aim of this thesis is to point out the importance of the topic. The main guideline of each interpretation is the term of identity, which is also a relevant aspect when presenting a broader range of contexts. Identity, in this case, is a phenomenon that can be best seized in the opposition of "we" versus "them", when its meaning and content (who and what am I, who and what are you?) are reflected in the most accurate way. The Slovak-Jewish relations are a representative example of such a binary opposition. The hypothesis of the work is that the representation practice of Slovak literature regarding the Jewish topic may be related to the non-literary context. The focus of the research is the examination of the constructions of Jewish identities that appeared in various interpretative and compositional layers of works of Slovakian high literature. The works of non-Jewish authors are considered to be hetero-interpretations, while the works of Jewish authors are self-interpretations of the same phenomenon, Jewish identity. Using the notion of tradition, the diachronic aspect of the phenomenon is taken into account. In the thesis two relevant definitions are confronted: Gadamer's rather positive steady and a...
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