Fall 2024 History GU4641 section 001

HOLOCAUST GENOCIDE-AMER CULTRE

HOLOCAUST GENOCIDE-AMER C

Call Number 18673
Day & Time
Location
W 2:10pm-4:00pm
301M Fayerweather
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Rebecca Kobrin
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

When the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. opened in 1993, some people asked why a "European" catastrophe was being memorialized alongside shrines to Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln while there was still no museum documenting the experience of African slaves in the United States or the effort to exterminate the Native Americans on this continent. How American intellectuals have thought about the Nazi regime and the Holocaust in Europe since before the Second World War and in the latter half of the twentieth century is te focus on this course.  The course will also compare the ways the United States narrates, conceptualizes and deals with the Holocaust as oppsed to other genocidal events. This course is comparative at its core as it examines how intellectuals and institutions spanning from Hannah Arendt to the United Nations to the US Holocaust Museum have woven this event into American culture.

Web Site Vergil
Department History
Enrollment 5 students (15 max) as of 4:06PM Sunday, December 1, 2024
Subject History
Number GU4641
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Note Add to waitlist & see instructions on SSOL
Section key 20243HIST4641W001