Varieties of Zionism - APOV30348

• Title: Varieties of Zionism
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Political Science (21-UPOL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 35 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. Dr. Pavel Barša, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): prof. Dr. Pavel Barša, M.A., Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: prof. Dr. Pavel Barša, M.A., Ph.D. (11.02.2024)

The course offers the selection of Zionist texts from the 1880s and 1890s to the present. The first part offers texts by Moshe L. Lilienblum, Leo Pinsker, Achad Haam, Nachman Syrkin and Theodor Herzl. The second part is devoted to the Zionist writings of Hannah Arendt. The concluding part deals with the recent re-formulation of Zionism by Omri Boehm.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: prof. Dr. Pavel Barša, M.A., Ph.D. (11.02.2024)

Participation in class discussions, at least one oral presentation of readings and final written examination (for those students who want to be graded). 

Syllabus

Last update: prof. Dr. Pavel Barša, M.A., Ph.D. (21.02.2024)

 1)          Introduction

I.                        Beginnings

2)          Moses L. Lilienblum, Leo Pinsker in: Arthur Hertzberg (ed.), The Zionist Idea. A Historical Analysis and Reader, A Temple Book, Atheneum, New York 1981, pp. 173 – 198.

3)          Achad Haam, ibid., pp. 248 – 269.

4)          Nachman Syrkin, ibid., pp. 333 – 351.

5)          Theodor Herzl, ibid., pp. 204 – 225.

II. Hannah Arendt

6)          Hannah Arendt, The Jewish writings, Feldman, R.H. & Kohn, J., New York: Schocken Books. 2007.; Herzl and Lazare, Zionism Reconsidered, pp. 338 – 374.

7)          H. Arendt, ibid., The Jewish State: Fifty Years After, Where Have Herzl´s Politics Led?, To Save the Jewish Homeland, pp. 375 – 401.

8)          H. Arendt, ibid., Peace or Armistice in the Near East?, pp. 423 – 450.

III.       Omri Boehm

9)          Omri Boehm, Haifa Republic. A Democratic Future for Israel, New York Review of Books, N. Y. 2021, Introduction and Chapter 1: The Liberal Zionism of the Future.

10)   O. Boehm, ibid., Chapter 2: Forgetting and Remembering: the Holocaust.

11)   O. Boehm, ibid., Chapter 3: Remembering and Forgetting: the Nakba.

12)   O. Boehm, ibid., Chapter 4: The Haifa Republic.

13)    Concluding Discussion.