Kristallnacht as Global Hist

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This readings-and-discussion-focused seminar will explore how the November 1938 Nazi-organized assault on German Jewish communities and institutions, commonly known as Kristallnacht, was perceived and responded to across a range of places and contexts, from Germany itself to other countries in Europe, the United States, the Jewish community in Palestine, and beyond. Kristallnacht will thus serve as a window on the international history of fascism and anti-fascism, and on the global clash of ideologies, on the eve of the Second World War.