Holocaust in Global Perspect

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This course positions the Holocaust not solely as a European story but a global one with implications for Jewish communities across the world. In addition to the experiences of central and eastern European Jewries, the course will also emphasize the experiences of Jewish communities in the Sephardi heartland of the eastern Mediterranean as well in North Africa and Middle East. The course will then study how the Holocaust has been represented in various contexts, most notably the United States and Israel. As an upper-level seminar, the course will consider a diversity of historiographical issues, among them questions of agency, causation, collaboration, and resistance, methodological approaches such as microhistory, gender history, oral history, public history, and fields of inquiry such as postcolonial and gender studies. Restricted to Junior and Seniors. Offered regularly.