2020 Fall

HISTORY 178 001 - LEC 001

History of the Holocaust

John M. Efron

Aug 26, 2020 - Dec 11, 2020

Tu, Th

09:30 am - 10:59 am

Internet/Online

Class #:25983

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: Remote Instruction
Asynchronous Instruction
Time Conflict Enrollment Allowed

Offered through History

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Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 9 to 8 hours of outside work hours per week, and 0 to 1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

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This course will survey the historical events and intellectual developments leading up to and surrounding the destruction of European Jewry during World War II. By reading a mixture of primary and secondary sources we will examine the Shoah (the Hebrew word for the Holocaust) against the backdrop of modern Jewish and modern German history. The course is divided into three main parts: (1) the historical background up to 1933; (2) the persecution of the Jews and the beginnings of mass murder, 1933-1941; and (3) the industrialized murder of the Jews, 1942-1945.

Class Notes

Lectures will be asynchronous, discussion sections will meet synchronously. Each week, my Tues and Thurs lectures will be posted on bCourses on either the preceding Sunday or Monday. I've also included three synchronous "Open Forum" classes where students will have previously emailed me their questions. And of course, I will be holding office hours.

Assessment: Students will hand in bi-weekly reports on the readings for for that week on the day BEFORE the scheduled class time. There will be a Midterm and a Final paper. show less