Focus is on the destruction of the Jews of Europe by Nazi Germany. Issues are historically grounded, and include works of literature, social sciences, philosophy, and film. Co-taught by Murray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez, holocaust survivors and UC Santa Cruz emeriti.
Topic: Emancipation, Acculturation, Assimilation — The Jews of Western Europe
Recorded on 01.07.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Reading Holocaust Literature: Dry Tears by Nehama Tec and Personal Witnessing
Recorded on 01.10.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Jews of the Russian Empire
Recorded on 01.12.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Shalom Aleichem and the Yiddish World
Recorded on 01.14.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: The Jews of Eastern Europe
Recorded on 01.19.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Necessity and Impossibility of Witnessing
Recorded on 01.24.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Hitler and the Jews
Recorded on 01.28.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Reading Holocaust Poetry
Recorded on 01.31.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: What should we do with the Jews?
Recorded on 02.02.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Life on the Other Planet: Schwarz-Bart's The Last of the Just
Recorded on 02.04.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Ghettos in Poland
Recorded on 02.07.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Representing/Witnessing: Narrator, Character, Ideology
Recorded on 02.09.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union
Recorded on 02.16.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Primo Levi: Notes on His Life and Work with Albert J. Milani
Recorded on 02.18.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Naming the Holocaust Experience
Recorded on 02.23.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: The Holocaust of Western Europe
Recorded on 02.25.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Tell the Children with Dora Sorell
Recorded on 02.28.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Messenger and Witness: Language
Recorded on 03.04.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Hungary 1944
Recorded on 03.07.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Stages of Memory: In Berlin & New York with James Young
Recorded on 03.09.11 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: "Not knowing what I should think." - Sebald
Recorded on 03.11.2011 at UC Santa Cruz
Topic: Concentration Camps
Recorded on 03.14.2011 at UC Santa Cruz