JS 210 - Responses to the Holocaust

Course Cross-listed with HIS 207
3 credit(s)
This course explores both Jewish and non-Jewish responses to the Holocaust in an interdisciplinary manner through an examination of social, religious, theological, political, cultural, psychological, and literary responses to the Holocaust both during and after the Second World War. The class (1) focuses attention on the diversity of human responses to Nazi persecution, both Jewish and non-Jewish, and (2) facilitates a deeper understanding of the manner in which individuals and communities respond to extreme persecution in war and genocide both contemporaneously and in its aftermath.

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