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2012-01-05

The enrollment to the Open Jewish University starts

The Shalom Foundation has opened the recruitment process to the Open Jewish University. Classes will run from February to May 2012 in Warsaw. University of Warsaw students who desire to take part in the classes, may register online in the USOS University of Warsaw Internet system. Otherwise, the enrollment process begins on January 9th, 2012. `There is a fee to take part in the classes.

See below the curriculum:

I. Movie

Jewish cinematography in Poland before the outbreak of World War II and in the interwar period. Moviemakers, genres, themes.
Polish Jewish cinema after the end of World War II. Moviemakers, genres, themes.
Movie stories about life of a shtetl.
Problems and controversies with regard to the Shoah representation in feature films.
Polish cinematography and the question of the Shoah
Life overshadowed by the Shoah. Feature and documentary films about the trauma of the Holocaust survivors and the second Holocaust generation.
Fighting against the stereotype of Jewish passiveness during World War II in feature and documentary movies

II. Art history

And what about this ban on visual representation? Identity in art. The question of Jewish art and the Jewish artist in philosophy, theological books and in practice. A discussion about the second commandment. The development of Jewish art as a distinct trend in art history.
From Dura Europos to Marc Chagall. A short review of art monuments in Jewish culture from antiquity to contemporary times, part one.
From Dura Europos to Marc Chagall. A short review of art monuments in Jewish culture from antiquity to contemporary times, part two.
Iconographic and Jewish symbols – their derivation, meaning and development
Hiddur mitzvah – art. in Jewish life, embedded in the life cycle, holidays, Jewish home and ritual objects.
On Jewish holidays through the specter of art.
Jewish Books as artistic masterpieces. Illuminated Hebrew books, Haggadoth, Esther scrolls – the relation between the content and the illustrations.

III. Literature

Yiddish literature classics: Mendele Mojcher Sforim, Icchok Lejb Perec and Szolem Alejchem, part 1.
Yiddish literature classics: Szalom Asz and Józef Opatoszu, part two.
Children’s images in Yiddish literature
Polish-Jewish press in the 20th century – its role and significance explained on the basis of the three most important magazines, ‘Nasz Przegląd’, ‘Chwila’ and ‘Nowy Dziennik’.
Yiddish movies made in Poland prior to 1939.
Polish culture and history in Yiddish literature
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s stories about human passions and hidden demons
Literary testimonies of the Shoah (Henryk Grynberg, Stanisław Wygodzki, Hanna Krall, Irit Amiel, Stanisław Benski).

V. The philosphy of Judaism

God. The creation of the world. The creation of humans in the image of God, in the likeness of God.
Marriage- family-parents vs. children. Rights, duties.
Old age, death, faith in the hereafter.
Precepts – women, men, non-Jews. Attitude towards Others and Foreigners.
The organization of a Jewish community. Most important institutions: a mikveh, a synagogue, societies and others.
Who are Jews? Who is Jewish? Pious Jews, lay Jews.
The truth, the lie, ‘evil language’.

You can apply by telephone (+48 22 620 30 36-8) or by e-mail (klub@shalom.org.pl)

The cost of one term is PLN 150 for those outside the University of Warsaw.

For more information go to the website of the Foundation

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