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| 0680-3222-01 | The "grey Zone": the Dilemma of Collaboration in Literary Re | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Claude Lanzmann's 2013 film The Last of the Unjust deals with an agitating issue to which Holocaust representations in literature, film and theatre return time and again, in a post-traumatic compulsion to repeat: the issue of alleged cooperation of Holocaust victims with their perpetrators, manifested in their "readiness" to assume leadership roles the Ghettos and to participate in the Sonderkommandos in the concentration camps, as well as in phenomena of lack of solidarity and sometimes even hostile relations among the camp's inmates. The course will discuss literary works that center around this polemic issue, on the basis of theoretical writings of scholars such as Jean Amery, Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, Wolfgang Sofsky and others, and will examine their positions in various social, political and psychological contexts. Among the authors whose works will be discussed are Primo Levi, Yehiel Dinur, Tadeusz Borowski, Ben Zion Tomer, Yehoshua Sobol, Ida Fink, Charlotte Delbo and André Schwarz-Bart