The Holocaust

Module 1 - Emancipation, Acculturation, and Assimilation
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