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Root number
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515714 |
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Semester
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FS2026 |
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Type of course
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Seminar |
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Allocation to subject
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English Languages and Literatures |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
| Title |
The Blood Libel in Drama, Literature, and Film (BA FS Seminar: Literature) |
| Description |
The blood libel refers to the malicious and false antisemitic accusation that Jews ritually sacrifice Christian children at Passover and use their blood for the preparation of unleavened bread. Arising in the Christian Middle Ages in response to the brutal murder of an English boy in Norwich, the ritual murder accusation soon spread across Europe and initiated the violent persecution of Jews. The proliferation of these groundless, and frequently opportunistic, accusations came to a head with the blood libel case of Tiszaeszlár in Hungary in 1882 and, in the early twentieth century, with the Beilis affair in Kyiv (1911–1913). Echoes of the blood libel continue to resurface (e.g., during the recent pandemic) and have long since traversed cultural and geographical boundaries. In this seminar, we will explore literary, dramatic, and cinematic engagements with the pernicious ritual murder accusation (including archival material and a research block) and will investigate how the blood libel is negotiated in cultural production in shifting historical and cultural contexts; the seminar as such also interrogates the cultural sustainability of the rejection of racist and antisemitic attitudes.
Required Reading:
Plays/Radioplays:
Heinz Herald and Géza Herczeg, “Der Prozess ohne Ende,” unpubl. (c. 1938; PDF)
Heinz Herald and Géza Herczeg, The Burning Bush (1947; PDF)
Steven Berkoff, Ritual in Blood (1965/2000)
Paul M. Levitt, “The Norwich Incident,” unpubl. (1971/1980; PDF)
Arnold Wesker, Blood Libel (1996)
Novel:
Bernard Malamud, The Fixer (1966)
Films:
Georg W. Pabst, Der Prozess: Im Namen der Menschlichkeit (1947)
John Frankenheimer, The Fixer (1968) |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Prof. Dr.
Axel Stähler, Institute of English Languages and Literatures ✉
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ECTS
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4 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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No |
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Grading
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passed/failed |
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| Dates |
Thursday 14:15-16:00 Weekly
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum F 006, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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| Students please consult the detailed view for complete information on dates, rooms and planned podcasts. |
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