Readings:
Tec, Nehama. Dry Tears.
Bauer. Chapter One «Who are the Jews?»
Dan
Pagis, 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
