Antisemitism After Auschwitz in Comparative Perspective Course
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Antisemitism after Auschwitz in Comparative Perspective Course Code: WSM.IE-S75D Language of Instruction: English Course tutors: Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, PhD, Elisabeth Büttner, MA Dr hab. Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs is the Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (JU) and teaches at the UNESCO Chair for Education about the Holocaust at the Institute for European Studies at JU. In 2011/2012, she was an Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and earlier a Pew Fellow at the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, a visiting fellow at Oxford University, Cambridge University, a DAAD fellow at the Memorial and Educational Site House of the Wannsee Conference. Dr. Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs is the author of Me – Us – Them. Ethnic Prejudices and Alternative Methods of Education: The Case of Poland (2003); Tolerancja. Jak uczyć siebie i innych [Tolerance. How to Teach Ourselves and Others] (2003, 2004); editor of The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars, (ed.) (2009) and co-editor of Pamięć. Świadomość. Odpowiedzialność. Remembrance. Awareness, Responsibility (with K. Oleksy), (2008), Why Should We Teach about the Holocaust? (with L. Hońdo) (2005). Elisabeth Büttner, holds an MA degree in European Studies earned at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute for European Studies at the Jagiellonian University (dissertation topic: The fate of German prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp). She held a double scholarship of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure in 2013. She has been collaborating with the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Jagiellonian University since 2011. Research interests: anti-Semitism, history of concentration camps, coming to terms with the Nazi past, legal persecution of war crime perpetrators. Description The course surveys the political, social, economic and cultural aspects of Polish-Jewish relations in the 20th century, focusing on the period of the Holocaust and its aftermath. It also looks at the memory of these relations in the post-World War II period. Major topics covered include: theories of prejudices, antisemitism, empirical studies of racism and antisemitism. The course includes discussions about contemporary manifestations of antisemitism and reactions of the EU and individual countries. Type of course Seminar – 10 hrs Lecture – 20 hrs Year of Studies: any Number of ECTS points 4.5 Prerequisites (if applicable) None Intended Learning Outcomes EK1: the student possesses extended and organized knowledge about the terminology used in social sciences and the humanities (K2_W03++) EK2: the student possesses organized and broad knowledge about traditional and contemporary trends and systems in the fields of anthropology, sociology, philosophy and social psychology and understands its historic and cultural prerequisites (K2_W16++) EK3: the student is able to research, select and make use of information using an appropriate selection of sources, and knows how to apply a suitable gradation with regards to the used sources (K2_U01+++) EK4: the student possesses the ability to give content-related arguments using the views of different authors and respecting divergent opinions of other participants of the discussion (K2_U6+++) EK5: the student is able to prepare an oral presentation which is either the result of group work or of individual work (K2_U10+++) EK6: the student is aware of the level of his knowledge and abilities, understands the need for constant education with regards to his professional career and personal development and is able to decide on the direction of his personal development (K2_K01+) EK7: the student is able to determine the aims of his activities and to decide on priorities and the order of realization of his tasks (K2_K03++) Course communication [email protected] [email protected] Notices and announcements LITERATURE: Basic: Voices on Antisemitism - free podcast series of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum www.ushmm.org. A new perspective on the continuing threat of antisemitism in our world today. Avner Falk, Antisemitism: A History and Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Hatred. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2008, p. 5-15. 166-178. Werner Bergmann, Antisemitism in Europe Today: the Phenomena, the Conflicts. Proceedings International conference “Antisemitism in Europe Today: the Phenomena, the Conflicts” 8–9 November 2013. Organized by the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” and the Center for Research on Antisemitism Berlin http://www.jmberlin.de/antisemitism-today/Bergmann.pdf Tokarska-Bakir Joanna (2006), Where Does Anti-Semitism Come from? [In:] Difficult Questions in Polish-Jewish Dialogue, Warsaw, p. 27-30. Gross Jan T. (2001), Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. Steinlauf Michael (1997), Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. Wolak Artur J. (2004), Forced out. The Fate of Polish Jewry in Communist Poland, Tucson: Fenestra Books. Gross Jan T. (2006), Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz, Random House. Gross Jan T. (2011), Golden Harvest, NY: Oxford University Press. Błoński Jan (1987), The Poor Poles look at the Ghetto, retrievable under http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/eehistory/H200Readings/Topic4-R1.html Levy, R. S. (1991), Anti-Semitism in the Modern World. An Anthology of Texts. D.C. Heath and Company, USA, 147-266. Anti-Defamation League (2012), Attitudes Towards Jews in Ten European Countries. March 2012, NY – retrieved online from: http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/adl_antisemitism_presentation_february_2012.pdf Deutscher Bundestag (2012), Bericht des unabhängigen Expertenkreises Antisemitismus. Anti- Semitismus in Deutschland – Erscheinungen, Bedingungen, Präventionsansätze, retrieved online from: http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/077/1707700.pdf Krzemiński I., (2011), The resilience of tradition : antisemitism in Poland and the Ukraine [In:] Lars Rensmann, Julius H. Schoeps, Politics and Resentment, Brill, Leiden, Boston, 249-274. Kapralski, Sławomir (2007), The Impact of Post-1989 Changes on Polish-Jewish Relations And Perceptions: Memories And Debates. In Faltin, L. & Wright, M. J. (ed.). The Religious Roots of Contemporary European Identity. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 89-104. Krajewski, Stanisław (2005). Poland and the Jews. Reflections of a Polish Polish Jew. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Austeria. Materials from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (scope to be determined) Additional: Zick A., Küpper B., Hövermann A., Intolerance, Prejudice and Discrimination - A European Report, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2011 http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/do/07908-20110311.pdf Hoffman Eva, After Such Knowledge. Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust, New York, Public Affairs, 2004 (fragments). Tec Nechama, When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christians Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland, New York: Oxford University Press, 1986, 150-193. Mueller Jan-Werner, ‘On “European Memory”. Some conceptual and normative remarks’. [In:] Małgorzata Pakier and Bo Stråth (eds.), A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance, Berghahn Books, New York, 2010, 25-37. Stokholm Banke Cecilie Felicia,"Remembering Europe’s heart of darkness : legacies of the Holocaust in Postwar European societies". [In:] Małgorzata Pakier and Bo Stråth (eds.), A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance, Berghahn Books, New York, 2010, 163-174. Jarausch Konrad H., "Nightmares or Daydreams? A Postscript on the Europeanisation of Memories. [In:] Małgorzata Pakier and Bo Stråth (eds.), A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance, Berghahn Books, New York, 2010, 309-320. Films: THE LONGEST HATRED: A REVEALING HISTORY OF ANTI-SEMITISM (1991) 1. From the Cross to the Swastika 2. Enemies of the Nation “Birth place”, dir. Pawel Lozinski (1992) Additional literature: Bergmann Werner (ed.) (1988), Error Without Trial. Psychological Research on Antisemitism. Current Research on Antisemitism. Ed. By Herbert A. Strauss and Werner Bergmann, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 10-34. Robert Blobaum (2005), Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland, Ithaca: Cornell University Press (Szymon Rudnicki148-170, Bożena Szaynok 265-283, Janine P. Holc 301-325). Jacobs Steven Leonard and Weitzman Mark (2003), Dismantling the Big Lie. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles and KTAV, Jersey City. Robert Wistrich (2002), Muslim antisemitism. A Clear and Present Danger. The American Jewish Committe. Robert S. Wistrich (2005), Antisemitism in Western Europe at the Turn of the 21st Century, Jerusalem, Institute of the World Jewish Congress. Robert S. Wistrich (2005), European Anti-Semitism Reinvents Itself, The American Jewish Committee. Education on the Holocaust and on Anti-Semitism. An Overview and Analysis of Educational Approaches (2006), OSCE/ODIHR. COURSE ORGANISATION Summer Semester Time and Place: Tuesdays, 12.00 – 13.30, Auditorium Maximum Seminar Room (unless otherwise posted on the CES daily course schedule: http://www.ces.uj.edu.pl/current/daily-course-schedule) Course type: Lecture/Seminar Contact hours: 30h Breakdown of ECTS credits 1 ECTS: 30h of lectures/seminars 1 ECTS: 30h of preparation