Coursera
Free Online Course (Audit)
English
Certificate Available
3-6 hours a week
selfpaced
Overview
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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 shiftinghistorical conditions from which the Holocaust emerged. Students will explorememoirs, historical documents, poetry, documentary footage, filmic representations,novels, and other media that help to illustrate the multiplicity and varietyof human experience during this important historical episode.
By the end of the course, you will have an expanded knowledge and understandingof Eastern and Western Jewish communities, the origins and developmentof antisemitism, the formation and operation of concentration camps, theresistance 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 Holocauststudies.
Syllabus
Module 1 - Emancipation, Acculturation, and Assimilation
Readings:
Tec, Nehama. Dry Tears.
Bauer. Chapter One "Who are the Jews?"
DanPagis, some poems will be provided
Film:Image Before My Eyes
Module 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
Module 3 - Narrating Modern Jewish Success and Nazi Antisemitism
Readings:
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz (part 1)
Bauer. Chapters 6&7
Film:Shoah (excerpts)
Module 4 - Witnessing and Postmemory
Readings:
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz (part 2)
Wiesel, Elie. Night. (part 1)
Bauer. Chapters 8&9
Paul Celan's poem "Death Fugue"
Film:Night & Fog
Module 5 - Nazi Racial Laws/Demolition of the Jews
Readings:
Wiesel, Elie. Night (part 2)
Schwartz-Bart. The Last of the Just [excerpts]
Film:Europa, Europa
Module 6 - Nazi Germany and the Totalitarian State
Readings:
Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men.[Excerpts]
Bauer. Chapter 11
Film:Divided We Fall
Module 7 - Ghettos/Resistance
Readings:
Arieti, Silvano. The Parnas
Bauer. Chapter 12
Film:Partisans of Vilna
Module 8 - Establishing Extermination Centers
Readings:
Borowski, Tadeusz. The Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen
Bauer.Chapter 13
Film:The Wannsee Conference
Module 9 - The Hungarian Experience of the Holocaust
Readings:
Kertész, Imre. Fatelessness
Kertész, Imre. "Who Owns Auschwitz?"
Bauer. Chapter 14
Film:The Pianist
Module 10 - Deportations & The Legacy of the Holocaust
Readings:
Fink,Ida. A Scrap of Time
Film:The Shop on Main Street
Readings:
Tec, Nehama. Dry Tears.
Bauer. Chapter One "Who are the Jews?"
DanPagis, some poems will be provided
Film:Image Before My Eyes
Module 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
Module 3 - Narrating Modern Jewish Success and Nazi Antisemitism
Readings:
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz (part 1)
Bauer. Chapters 6&7
Film:Shoah (excerpts)
Module 4 - Witnessing and Postmemory
Readings:
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz (part 2)
Wiesel, Elie. Night. (part 1)
Bauer. Chapters 8&9
Paul Celan's poem "Death Fugue"
Film:Night & Fog
Module 5 - Nazi Racial Laws/Demolition of the Jews
Readings:
Wiesel, Elie. Night (part 2)
Schwartz-Bart. The Last of the Just [excerpts]
Film:Europa, Europa
Module 6 - Nazi Germany and the Totalitarian State
Readings:
Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men.[Excerpts]
Bauer. Chapter 11
Film:Divided We Fall
Module 7 - Ghettos/Resistance
Readings:
Arieti, Silvano. The Parnas
Bauer. Chapter 12
Film:Partisans of Vilna
Module 8 - Establishing Extermination Centers
Readings:
Borowski, Tadeusz. The Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen
Bauer.Chapter 13
Film:The Wannsee Conference
Module 9 - The Hungarian Experience of the Holocaust
Readings:
Kertész, Imre. Fatelessness
Kertész, Imre. "Who Owns Auschwitz?"
Bauer. Chapter 14
Film:The Pianist
Module 10 - Deportations & The Legacy of the Holocaust
Readings:
Fink,Ida. A Scrap of Time
Film:The Shop on Main Street
Taught by
Murray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez
