The Holocaust

4 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course examines the destruction of European Jewry (1933-1945), its causes and effects. Major themes include the resurgence of political and racial and anti-Semitism in the nineteenth century, European jewry in the period before World War II, the rise of the Nazis to power and the response of European society and European Jewry, the "final solution," and the literature of the Holocaust.