Antisemitism and Jews and Gentiles in Nazi Germany
Seminar questions:
Discuss the concept of "social death".
How did the ordinary German neighbors turn into antisemites, and what is their responsibility?
What are the methodological challenges in working with self-testimonies?
Core readings:
Bergen, ch. 1.
Kaplan, ch. 1 and 2 (pp. 17-73).
Extended readings:
Werner Angress, Witness to the storm: a Jewish journey from Nazi Berlin to the 82nd Airborne, 1920-1945 (Durham: Miriam Angress, 2012).
Alexandra Garbarini, Numbered Days: Diaries and the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
Amos Goldberg, Trauma in First Person Diary Writing During the Holocaust (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017).
Shira Klein, Italy's Jews from emancipation to fascism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Otto Dov Kulka and Everhard Jäckel, The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in German 1933-1945 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).
Paul Mendes-Flohr, German Jews: A Dual Identity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Guy Miron, "The “Lived Time” of German Jews under the Nazi Regime," The Journal of Modern History 90 (March 2018): 116–153.
Michele Sarfatti, The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: From Equality to Persecution (Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 2007).
Kim Wünschmann, Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps (Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press 2015).
Susan Zuccotti, The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecutiuon, Rescue, and Survival (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996).