Graz, Austria

Jewish Studies – History of the Jews

Jüdische Studien – Geschichte jüdischer Kulturen

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⇑Jewish Studies – History of the Jews at University of Graz

Language: German Studies in German

Subject area: humanities

Qualification: MA

Master of Arts, MA
4 Semester
120 ECTS

University website: www.uni-graz.at

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History

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents. Events occurring before written record are considered prehistory. It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Scholars who write about history are called historians.

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Jewish Studies

Jewish studies (or Judaic studies) is an academic discipline centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is interdisciplinary and combines aspects of history (especially Jewish history), Middle Eastern studies, Asian studies, Oriental studies, religious studies, archeology, sociology, languages (Jewish languages), political science, area studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies. Jewish studies as a distinct field is mainly present at colleges and universities in North America.

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History

The end of history is, alas, also the end of the dustbins of history. There are no longer any dustbins for disposing of old ideologies, old regimes, old values. Where are we going to throw Marxism, which actually invented the dustbins of history? (Yet there is some justice here since the very people who invented them have fallen in.) Conclusion: if there are no more dustbins of history, this is because History itself has become a dustbin. It has become its own dustbin, just as the planet itself is becoming its own dustbin.

Jean Baudrillard, The Illusion of the End (1992), "The Event Strike", p. 26.

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History

The greater part of what passes for diplomatic history is little more than the record of what one clerk said to another clerk.

G. M. Young, Victorian England: Portrait of an Age (1936)

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History

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

W. H. Auden, The Dyers Hand, "D.H. Lawrence" (1962)

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