Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Történeti Intézet
- Kód
- BA-ERA-IHS-S-21
- Cím
- The Social History of Hungarian Jewry
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- ECTS
- 6
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- The Social History of Hungarian Jewry Language of instruction: English Learning outcomes: Students will be well-informed about the social history of Jews in Hungary and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on the history of inequality between Jews and non-Jews.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- kurzus címe: The Social History of Hungarian Jewry kurzus oktatója: Dr. Bolgár Dániel, egyetemi adjunktus Course content: Introduction Immigration and emigration Emancipation Assimilation: use of language, name changing, mixed marriages, conversion History of antisemitism The divided Jewry: Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, Sabbatarians, Zionists The divided Jewry: religious schism History of the “Jewish Question”-debate Inequalities between Jews and Non-Jews: IQ, educational attainment, occupation, wealth Traditional explanations for the inequalities A new explanation for the inequalities Written test
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Assessment methods and criteria: written test at the end of the term on the materials discussed during the semester; presentation at the end of the semester on the social history of Jews in the student's home country
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Bibliography: Bolgár, Dániel: How Tall Were the Jews? Anthropometric Data on Income Inequality between the Jews and Non-Jews in Hungary from the Mid-Nineteenth Century until World War I. Historical Studies on Central Europe, 2. (2022) 2. 274–304. https://ojs.elte.hu/hsce/article/view/1594/3958 Braham, Randolph L.: The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, Vol. I-II. New York, Columbia University Press, 1994. Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew). (film) (Directed by Fritz Hippler.) 1940. https://archive.org/details/der-ewige-jude-1940-engsub Dohm, Christian Conrad Wilhelm von: Concerning the Amelioriation of the Civil Status of the Jews (1781). https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/the-holy-roman-empire-1648-1815/christian-wilhelm-von-dohm-concerning-the-amelioration-of-the-civil-status-of-the-jews-1781.pdf Don, Yehuda – Magos, George: The Demographic Development of Hungarian Jewry. Jewish Social Studies, 45. (1983) 3-4.189-216. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4467225 Haraszti, György: Hungary from 1918 to 1945. The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/1680 Karády, Victor: The Jews of Europe in the Modern Era. A Socio-Historical Outline. Budapest – New York, CEU Press, 2004. Karády, Victor: The Ashkenaz of the South: Hungarian Jewry in the Long Nineteenth Century. Polin, 31. (2018) 83-120. Katz, Yakov: A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry. Hanover, Brandeis University Press, 1998. Konrád, Miklós: Jewish Emancipation as a Compromise. In: Gyáni, Gábor (ed.): The Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: A Hungarian Perspective. New York, Routledge, 2021. 229-256. https://real.mtak.hu/136224/1/2021JewishEmancipationasaCompromiseRoutledge2021.pdf Kovács, András: Hungary since 1945. The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/1679 Silber, Michael K.: The Emergence of Ultra-Orthodoxy: The Invention of Tradition. In: Jack Wertheimer (ed.): The Uses of Tradition: Jewish Continuity since Emancipation. New York – Jerusalem, Harvard University Press, 1992. 23–84. Silber, Michael K.: Hungary before 1918. The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/13 Treitschke, Heinrich von: „The Jews are Our Misfortune!” (November 15, 1879). https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/411_Treitschke_Jews%20are%20Misfortune_112.pdf