课程简介
This course traces the destruction of the Jews and Jewish life in Europe by Nazi Germany, drawing on major works of history, literature, and film. The lectures outline the work of the Nazis as well as Jewish responses.
课程大纲
Week 1 - Emancipation, Acculturation, and AssimilationReadings:
Tec, Nehama.
Dry Tears.Bauer. Chapter One "Who are the Jews?"
Dan
Pagis, some poems will be provided
Film:
Image Before My Eyes
Week 2 - Shtetl Life and the Pale of Settlement
Readings:
Badenheim 1939
Sholem Aleichem's "On Account of a Hat"
Bauer. Chapter Two
Film:
Everything Is Illuminated
Week 3 - Narrating Modern Jewish Success and Nazi Antisemitism
Readings:
Levi, Primo.
Survival in Auschwitz (part 1)Bauer. Chapters 6&7
Film:
Shoah
(excerpts)
Week 4 - Witnessing and Postmemory
Readings:
Levi, Primo.
Survival in Auschwitz (part 2)Bauer. Chapters 8&9
Film:
Night & Fog
Week 5 - Nazi Racial Laws/Demolition of the Jews
Readings:
Wiesel, Elie.
NightFilm:
Europa, Europa
Week 6 - Nazi Germany and the Totalitarian State
Readings:
Paul Celan's poem "Death Fugue"
Assorted Holocaust poems
Browning, Christopher.
Ordinary Men.Bauer. Chapter 11
Film:
Divided We Fall
Week 7 - Ghettos/Resistance
Readings:
Arieti, Silvano.
The ParnasBauer. Chapter 12
Film:
Partisans of Vilna
Week 8 - Establishing Extermination Centers
Readings:
Borowski, Tadeusz.
The Way for the Gas Ladies and GentlemenBauer.
Chapter 13
Film:
The Wannsee Conference
Week 9 - The Hungarian Experience of the Holocaust
Readings:
Kertész, Imre.
FatelessnessKertész, Imre. "Who Owns Auschwitz?"
Bauer. Chapter 14
Film:
The Pianist
Week 10 - Deportations & The Legacy of the Holocaust
Readings:
Fink,
Ida.
Film:
The Shop on Main Street
课程详情
This course focuses on the destruction of Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany,
but the true scope of the course is much broader; exploring also the shifting
historical conditions from which the Holocaust emerged. Students will explore
memoirs, historical documents, poetry, documentary footage, filmic representations,
novels, and other media that help to illustrate the multiplicity and variety
of human experience during this important historical episode.
By the end of the course, you will have an expanded knowledge and understanding
of Eastern and Western Jewish communities, the origins and development
of antisemitism, the formation and operation of concentration camps, the
resistance movements, and the Holocaust as a problem for world-history.
Additionally, you will have engaged with the problematics of representation,
memory, "the memorial", and witnessing.
This course is supported by the Neufeld-Levin Chair in Holocaust
studies.