The Jewish Art in Warsaw, Krakow and Lodz from the 19th century to 1950s. Selected issues.

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Course ID:	WNHS-HS-TJAWK
Erasmus code / ISCED:	03.6 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0222) History and archaeology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	The Jewish Art in Warsaw, Krakow and Lodz from the 19th century to 1950s. Selected issues.
Name in Polish:	The Jewish Art in Warsaw, Krakow and Lodz from the 19th century to 1950s. Selected issues.
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Historical Sciences
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Subject level:	elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:	HS1_W02 HS1_W06 HS1_U04 HS1_U05 HS1_U06
Short description:	The lectures contain topics related to Polish-Jewish art of the 19th century and the first half of the 20s in n the most important cultural centers on Polish territory - Warsaw, Cracow, and Lodz - in the context of religious and national identity. Lecture combined with the presentation of illustrative and film material and presentations/references of students on a selected/targeted topic.
Full description:	The lectures contain topics related to Polish-Jewish art of the 19th century and the first half of the 20s in n the most important cultural centers on Polish territory - Warsaw, Cracow, and Lodz - in the context of religious and national identity. Lecture combined with the presentation of illustrative and film material and presentations/references of students on a selected/targeted topic. The main lectures issues: 1. Jewish art - definition, terminology, bibliography, institutions, Internet sources. 2. Religious art in Poland - based on preserved and unpreserved objects in Warsaw, Cracow, Lodz. Jewish symbols as a source of national identity. 3. Haskalah - Jewish Enlightenment in fine arts: in Cracow - Maurycy Gottlieb, and Warsaw - Aleksander Lesser. 4. The art of the Polish Jews from 1900 to 1939 - an artistic background in Warsaw, Cracow, and Lodz, key artists of those cities, iconography in the context of national identity (tradition, assimilation, Zionism). 5. Avant-garde in Lodz - Jung Idysz group - iconography, activity, artists. 6 The art of the Holocaust - Cracow, Lodz, Warsaw. 7. Revival of the Jewish culture and artistic background after World War II - outline of the problem.
Bibliography:	The influence of Jewish culture on the intellectual heritage of Central and Eastern Europe, ed. by T. Obolevitch and J. Bremer, Kraków 2011. Jewish artists and Central-Eastern Europe: art centers, identity, heritage from the 19th century to the Second World War: the First Congress of Jewish Art in Poland, ed. by J. Malinowski, R. Piątkowska, T. Sztyma-Knasiecka, Warszawa 2010 - 2 articles N. Styrna, Artyści żydowscy w Krakowie 1873-1939, katalog wystawy / Jewish artists in Kraków 1873-1939, exhibition catalogue, Kraków 2008. Żydzi polscy, wystawa, czerwiec - sierpień 1989, red. D. Dec [et al.], Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Kraków 1989. Insiders and Outsiders: Dilemmas of East European Jewry, de. Cohen R.I., Frankel J., Hoffman S., Oxford-Portland, Oregon, 2010. Additional literature: J. Malinowski, Malarstwo i rzeźba Żydów polskich w XIX i XX wieku, Warszawa 2000. Polski słownik judaistyczny : dzieje, kultura, religia, ludzie, oprac. Z. Borzymińska, R. Żebrowski, tom 1-2, Warszawa 2003. Reconstructing Jewish identity in pre-and post-Holocaust literature and culture, L. Aleksandrowicz-Pędich, M. Pakier (eds.), Frankfurt am Main 2012.
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:	The student has an orderly detailed knowledge of the development of Jewish art in Krakow, Lodz, Warsaw, in the European context, knows the relevant professional vocabulary and basic research methodology. He has a basic knowledge of selected issues of Jewish art and its links with the humanities. He/She can use appropriate terminology in Jewish art and use it in the formulation of logical speech and writing in English. He/She improved his/her language skills at the B2 level of the CEFR for Languages and enriched the linguistic language version with new terms and expressions on Jewish art. Student workload: 30(15) hours - participation in lectures 60(30) hours - reading an article in English and preparing a paper with illustrations.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	REQUIREMENTS TO BE FULFILLED TO COMPLETE THE COURSE: • course attendance – max 55 points / one absence is allowed, further absences „cost” minus 9 points each • accomplish 1 e-learning task = 45 • Term evaluation – max 100 points • It icludes 2 elements: • Attendace – max 55 points • accomplishing 1 e-learning task – max 45 • Scale of grades: 60 - 79 PKT - 3,0 / 80 -84 - 3,5 / 85 -94 - 4,0 / 95- 97- 4,5 / 98 - 100 - 5,0
Practical placement:	-

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