01/05/2010 - 2:00pm to 01/05/2010 - 3:50pm

Location:
Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at PSU
Check the university website (http://www.sa.pdx.edu/soc/) for locations two weeks prior to the beginning of the term.

Class Description:
HST 399, Taught by Natan Meir

An introduction to the Nazi-planned and executed genocide of European Jewry that has come to be known as the Holocaust. Topics includes the German and
European contexts for the rise of Nazism; the nature of antisemitism and its links to Nazi ideology and policy; the circumstances of European Jewry in the interwar period; the "Final Solution"; the nature and definition of resistance; the question of the "bystanders"; and varieties of responses to the Holocaust.

More Info:
January 5 - March 14
Tuesdays and Thursdays 2 - 3:50 pm
For more info, please contact lmaizels@pdx.edu