Historiography of the Holocaust

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In this course, we will identify and discuss some of the central questions facing historical scholarship in recording and analyzing the origins and implementation of the Nazi “final solution” of the Jewish question. We will follow the debates that these questions have aroused among professional historians in the US, Germany, Israel and Poland, including the ideological roots of modern anti-Semitism, psychological and cultural explanations of the Holocaust, and historical revisionism.