The Holocaust

During the course we will review and examine the major events that occurred during the Holocaust. Among the issues which we will deal with: anti-Semitism and Nazi ideology; Jews in Germany in the thirties; Anti-Jewish policies in different occupation zones; The Eastern European Jewish society and its isolation in ghettos; The fate of the Jews in Western Europe, the Balkans and North Africa; the Jewish community in Israel (The Yishuv) and the Jews of the United States in light of the Holocaust.