Holocaust Literature

Catalog description

This course explores the literary responses of the first generation (victims and survivors) of the Holocaust or Shoah. The literature of witness provides an enrichment of the narrative of History - not a counterpoint to History, but a deepening and focusing of it. Noting key historical events, we read memoirs, diaries, journals, poetry, fiction, and popular literature by survivors and their descendants to bear witness to how events of the Holocaust reverberate into the present. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Offered fall only.