Podoby a proměny židovství : Jiří Weil (1900-1959)
| Title in English | The images and metamorphoses of Jewishness : Jiří Weil (1900–1959) |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Novaja rusistika |
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| Web | Digitální knihovna FF MU |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Typology of Jewish intellectuals in Central European area; especially in Czech environment; Jiří Weil (1900-1959); the attitude of Jewish intellectuals to Bolshevik revolution and to Soviet Russia; Russian avantgarde |
| Description | The author of the present study deals with the role of Jewish intellectuals in interwar Central Europe, especially in Czechoslovakia, attempting at the typology of their social positions: 6) They tended towards Orthodox judaism forming certain enclaves which diminished their potential role in the majority population. 7) They tended towards new streams in Jewish thought (Jiří Mordechai Langer, Franz Kafka), e. g. towards chasidism. 8) They tried to formulate universal and innovative patterns of thought (Jesus, Newton, Marx, Freud, Einstein etc.). 9) They voluntarily assimilate identifying themselves with a certain nation or system of government (the first Czechoslovak Republic under Masaryk and Beneš). 10) They tried to conceal their Jewishness or to reduce their Jewish origin because of the threats from the majority population (pogroms, holocaust) and political movements based on racism, antisemitism etc. |