The Holocaust: History and documentation

During the course we will review and examine the major events that took place during the Holocaust, while carefully analyzing a variety of historical sources. Among the subjects we will deal with: anti-Semitism and Nazi ideology; German Jews in the 1930s; Anti-Jewish policy in the various occupied countries; Jewish society in view of its isolation in the ghettos of Eastern Europe; The fate of the Jews in Western Europe, the Balkans and North Africa; The Jewish Yishuv in Israel and the Jews of the United States in the face of the Holocaust. Each lesson will focus on a particular type of historical resource and serve as a basis for discussion of various methodological limitations.