REQUIREMENTS

This course will consist of a series of lectures and discussions. Students are expected to read all assigned texts, view all assigned movies, attend all sessions and participate in an articulate and constructive manner.

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REQUIRED READING

Fuchs, Elinor, Plays of the Holocaust. Theatre Communications Group, 1987.

Poliakov, Léon. Harvest of Hate. The Holocaust Library, 1986.

Skloot, Robert. The Theare of the Holocaust. University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.

Jim Allen's Perdition (ITHACA PRESS)

Arthur Giron's Edith Stein (SAMUEL FRENCH)

Jean-Claude Grumberg's The Workroom (SAMUEL FRENCH))

Gilles Ségal's The Puppetmaster of Lodz (SAMUEL FRENCH)

Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth (SAMUEL FRENCH)

Martin Sherman's Bent (SAMUEL FRENCH)

Erwin Sylvanus' Korczak and the Children (SAMUEL FRENCH)

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REQUIRED VIEWING:

Alan Adelson and Kathryn Taverna’s LODZ GHETTO

Costas-Gavras’s MUSIC BOX

Jerzy Grotowski’s AKROPOLIS

Agnieszka Holland’s EUROPA EUROPA

Louis Malle’s AU REVOIR, LES ENFANTES

Paul Mazursky’s ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY

Joseph Sargent’s MISS ROSE WHITE

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SESSION BREAKDOWN

Session 1, Definitions, Assumptions and Critical Parameters

Session 2, Art vs. History: A Tenuous Relationship

Session 3, The Holocaust: An Historical Overview (Harvest of Hate)
Christian Anti-Semitism: ddi.digital.net/~billw/ANTI/anti-semitism.html
Historical Summary: www.ushmm.org/education/history.html
Defining Nazism: remember.org/hist.root.what.html

Session 4, Holocaust Literature (The Shawl & Todesfugue)
Cynthia Ozick: www2.theatlantic.com/atlantic/unbound/factfict/ozick.htm
Paul Celan:

Session 5, In Search of Synthesis (excerpts from Maus)
Author interviewed: http://arts.ucsc.edu/derek/Art.html
Resources: http://students.vassar.edu/~hoschnei/maus.html

Session 6, Holocaust Drama: An Overview PAPER I DUE

Session 7, Ghetto & Martyr Drama: Resort 76
Lodz Ghetto Backround: http://holocaust.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa070897.htm
                                                       http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/galleryt/G1941msc.htm#p088

Session 8, Ghetto & Martyr Drama: Throne of Straw
Rumkowski's Position: http://holocaust.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa071897.htm

Session 9, Video Response & Analysis: Lodz Ghetto
 

Session 10, Deathcamp Drama: Auschwitz PAPER II DUE
Auschwitz Background: http://shrike.depaul.edu/~lhandzli/auschwitz/
Auschwitz Definitions: www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html

Session 11, Deathcamp Drama: Who Will Carry The Word?
Auschwitz Background: jefferson.village.virginia.edu/holocaust/virtualauschwitz.html
Map of Birkenau: jefferson.village.virginia.edu/holocaust/birkenaudia.gif

Session 12, Video Response & Analysis: Akropolis

Session 13, Survival Drama: The Puppermaster of Lodz
Impact on Survivors: http://www.geocities.com/~infotrue/

Session 14, Survival Drama: The Man in the Glass Booth
Eichmann's Trial: http://remember.org/eichmann/trial.htm

Session 15, Video Response & Analysis: Enemies, A Love Story

Session 16, National Perspectives, British: Good PAPER III DUE

Session 17, National Perspectives, Polish: Replika

Session 18, MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Session 19, National Perspectives, French: The Workroom
Vichy France: www.amgot.org/nyt7j19.htm
Children of Survivors: digital.net/%7Ebillw/HOLOCAUST/holocaust.html#4

Session 20, National Perspectives, French: Mister Fugue or Earth Sick
Einsatzgruppen: www.pgonline.com/electriczen
Pictures of Actions: modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/schmitz/Holocaust/eg1.html  --(eg2)(eg3)(eg4)

Session 21, Video Response & Analysis: Au Revoir, Les Enfants
Info on Louis Malle: ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/SchneiderF/malle.htm

Session 22, National Perspectives, German: Korczak and the Children
Warsaw Ghetto--Description: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/life_in_warsaw.html
Warsaw Ghetto--Memoir:  http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/karski.html
Warsaw Ghetto--Edelman's Description of Uprising: http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/warsaw-uprising.html
Warsaw Ghetto--Pictures: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/subguides/milhist/poland.html
Picture of Korczak: fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery/p234.htm

Session 23, National Perspectives, Israeli: Ghetto
Vilna Info: http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/text/x33/xm3384.html
Vilna Partisans: www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/eng_captions/56-4.html

Session 24, Video Response & Analysis: Europa Europa

Session 25, National Perspectives, American: Cathedral of Ice

Session 26, The Perspective of Exile:Eli PAPER IV DUE
Nelly Sachs: nobel.sdsc.edu/laureates/literature-1966-2-autobio.html

Session 27, Toward a Feminist Perspective: A Shayna Maidel

Session 28, Video Respone & Analysis: Miss Rose White

Session 29, The Holocaust & Homosexuality:Bent
The Badge System: http://www.igc.org/ddickerson/dachau-badges.htmll
Gay Persecution: www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/scotts/bulgarians/pink.html
Dachau Background: http://www.charm.net/~rbennett/entrance.html

Session 30, The Holocaust & AIDS: A Bright Room Called Day

Session 31, Expropriation: A Summary PAPER V DUE

Session 32, Revisionism & Exploitation: Perdition
Holocaust Denial: http://www.webcom.com/~ezundel/index.html     (WARNING)

Session 33, Video Response & Analysis: Music Box

Session 34, The Catholic Church & The Holocaust : The Deputy
Notre Dame Holocaust Project: www.ndholocproj.com/
Pius XII Defended: www.cin.org/p12-2.html
                                           http://www.catholicleague.org/Pius%20XII%20and%20the%20Holocaust/piusxii.htm

Session 35, Edith Stein
Dutch Background: www-lib.usc.edu/%7Eanthonya/holo.htm
Edith Stein @ Holy Cross: www.holycross.edu/departments/library/website/hiatt/estein.htm

Session 36, Summing Up

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PAPERS

The five papers that are required are a crucial component of the course. The papers enable the students to investigate specific texts in depth and to apply a variety of critical perspectives. Utilizing secondary sources from the recommended reading list (below), students are expected to analyze the representational strategy of a specific play in relation to other fictional works and to the documented historical record. In addition, papers should analyze the dramaturgical effectiveness of a given work. The papers should be between 3-4 pages and should entail a thesis or a point of view. Avoid generalizations, sweeping statements, or narrative summations (I have read the plays-- you don’t have to tell me the "story.")

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GRADES

25% of grade: Attendance & Participation in Class

20% of grade: Midterm

30% of grade: Cumulative grade on papers

25% of grade: Final Exam

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 Memoirs & Fiction:

Appelfeld, Aharon. The Age of Wonders. NY: Penguin, 1983

Appelfeld, Aharon. Badenheim 1939. NY: Washington Square Press, 1981.

Appelfeld, Aharon. Tzili: The Story of a Life. NY: Penguin, 1984.

Borowski, Tadeusz. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. NY: Penguin, 1967

Elon, Amos. Timetable. NY: Pinnicle Books, 1982.

Epstein, Leslie. King of the Jews. NY: NAL, 1986.

Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. NY: Pocket Books, 1963.

Goldstein, Charles. The Bunker. Phila: Jewish Publication Society, 1970.

Kaplan, Chaim. Scroll of Agony. NY: Macmillan, 1965.

Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. NY: Bantam, 1983.

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. NY: Collier, 1988.

Levi, Primo. If Not Now, When? NY: Penguin, 1986.

Levi, Primo. The Periodic Table. NY: Schocken Books, 1986.

Ozick, Cynthia. The Shawl & Rosa. NY: Vintage Books, 1990

Schwarz-Bart, Andre. The Last of the Just. NY: Atheneum, 1960.

Steiner, Jean-Francois. Treblinka. New york: Simon and Shuster, 1967.

Thomas, D.M. The White Hotel. NY: Pocket Books, 1982.

Wells, Leon W. The Janowska Road. New York: Macmillan, 1963.

Wiesel, Elie. The Night Trilogy. NY: Noonday, 1987.

Wiesel, Elie. The Gates of the Forest. NY: Avon, 1967.

Wiesenthal, Simon. The Sunflower. NY: Schocken Books, 1987
 

History & Criticism:

 Alan, William Sheridan. The Nazi Seizure of Power. NY: Franklin Watts, 1984.

Arendt, Hannah. Antisemitism. (Part one of The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1952). NY: Harcourt Brace, 1968.

Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem. New York: Viking Press, 1963.

Askenasy, Hans. Are We All Nazis? NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1978.

Bettelheim, Bruno. The Informed Heart. NY: Avon, 1960.

Blacher Cohen, Sarah. Ed. From Hester Street To Hollywood. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983.

Craig, Gordon A. The Germans. NY: NAL, 1983.

Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The Holocaust and the Historians. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1981.

Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The War Against the Jews. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1975.

Des Pres, Terence. The Survivor. NY: Oxford UP, 1976.

Donat, Alexander. The Holocaust Kingdom. New York: Rinehart. 1965.

Ezrahi, Sidra dekoven. By Words Alone. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.

Fackenheim, Emil L. The Jewish Return into History. NY: Schocken, 1978.

Friedlander, Saul. Kurt Gerstein: The Ambiguity of Good. Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.

Friedlander, Saul. Pius XII and the Third Reich. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1966.

Friedlander, Saul. Reflections of Nazism. NY: Harper & Row, 1984.

Gilbert, Martin. Final Journey. NY: Mayflower, 1979.

Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1961.

Katz, Steven T. Post-Holocaust Dialogues. NY: NYU P, 1985.

Kogon, Eugene. The Theory and Practice of Hell. New york: Farrar, Straus, 1953.

Lang, Berel. Ed. Writing and the Holocaust. NY: Holmes Meier, 1988.

Langer, Lawrence. The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale UP, 1975.

Langer, Lawrence. Versions of Survival. Albany: SUNY UP, 1982.

Levin, Nora. The Holocaust. New York: Schocken, 1973.

Marrus, Michael R. The Holocaust in History. Hanover: UP of New England, 1987.

Morse, Arthur D. While Six Million Died. New york: Ace Books, 1968.

Neher, Andre. The Exile of the Word. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1981.

Milgram, Stanley. Obedience to Authority. NY: Harper & Row, 1974.

Roskies, David G. Against the Apocalypse. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1984.

Rosenfeld, Alvin H. A Double Dying. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1980.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Anti-Semite and Jew. New York: Atheneum, 1960.

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1960.

Sloan, Jacob Ed. Notes From the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelbaum. NY: Schocken, 1974.

Steiner, George. In Bluebeard's Castle. New Haven: Yale UP, 1971.

Steiner, George. Language and Silence. NY: Atheneum, 1967.

Trunk, Isaiah. Judenrat. New York: Macmillan, 1972.

Young. James E. Writitng and Rewriting the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988.

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