Holocaust and Post-Trauma in Jewish-Israeli Cinema

4.0 credits

This course examines how modern Jewish-Israeli cinema confronts and processes Jewish individual and collective trauma. Focusing on Holocaust narratives, we will examine survivor trauma alongside the inherited memories of the second and third generation. Through critical analysis of film form, narrative, and ideology, students will explore how cinema functions as both artistic expression and a cultural tool. Together, we will examine how film shapes and reshapes trauma within the Jewish world, the concept of the "New Jew," Jewish identity, and the Israeli narrative. All materials will be screened in the original Hebrew with English subtitles.