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Winter 2004
This information effective for Winter 2004. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
History of Consciousness
[HISC-243A]
243A. Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and Jewish Resistance: Eastern Europe During World War II
(Also offered as History 243A)
Instructor: Barbara Epstein
Draft Syllabus
Week One: World War Two and the Holocaust
Arno Mayer, Why Did the Heavens not Darken? Chapters 5-10. Pantheon.
Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust, chapters 1-3, pp. 1-67. Yale University Press, 2002.
Week Two: Collaboration
Martin Dean, Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44. Selected chapters. St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Jan Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. Princeton University Press, 2000.
Resistance
Week Three: Jewish Resistance in Poland and Lithuania
Reuben Ainsztein, Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe. Paul Elek, London, 1974. Chapter 40, "Vilno: the Tragic Failure," and Part Seven, Chapters 42-45, "The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt." Pp. 486-518, 551- 681.
Or one of the following (both on reserve in the library):
Israel Gutman, Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
Yitzhak Arad, Ghetto in Flames: The Struggle and Destruction of the Jews in Vilna in the Holocaust. Holocaust Library, 1982.Recommended:
Yitzhak Arad, "The Armed Jewish Resistance in Eastern Europe: Its Unique Conditions and its Relations with the Jewish Councils (Judenrate) in the Ghettoes," pp. 591-600, The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Re-examined, ed. Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J. Peck, Indiana University Press 1998.
Yitzhak Zuckerman, A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. University of California, 1993.
Herman Kruk, The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944. Yale University Press, 2002
Week Four: Jewish Resistance in Belorussia
Hersh Smoliar, The Minsk Ghetto: Soviet-Jewish Partisans against the Nazis. Holocaust Library, 1989.
O. M. Arkadeva, L.I. Geller-Martinova, T.S. Kurdadze, D.I. Russakovskaya, At the Crossroads of Destiny: From the Memoirs of Former Prisoners of the Ghetto and of Righteous Gentiles. Minsk, Four Quarters Publishing House, 2001. Excerpts (informal translation).
Anti-Fascist Solidarity, Nationalism, and Communism
Week Five: Poland and Lithuania: Nationalism, Anti-Communism, and Anti-Semitism
Ezra Mendelsohn, The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars. Indiana University Press, 1984. Chapter One, "Poland," pp. 11-84, and Six, "Lithuania," pp. 213-240.
Shmuel Almog, Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in Modern Europe, 1918-1945. Pergamon Press, 1990. Chapter five, "The First World War and its Aftermath." Pp. 73-99.
Azriel Shochat, "Jews, Lithuanians and Russians, 1939-1941," pp. 301-314, in Jews and Non-Jews in Eastern Europe, edited by V. Vago and G.L. Mosse. John Wiley and Sons, 1974.
Recommended:
Ezra Mendelsohn, Zionism in Poland: The Formative Years, 1915-1926. Yale University Press, 1981.
Joseph Marcus, Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland, 1919-1939. Mouton Publishers, 1983.
Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939, ed. Antony Polonsky, Ezra Mendelsohn, and Jerzy Tomaszewski, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. London, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1994.
The Jews in Poland, Ed. Chimen Abramsky, Maciej Jachimczyk, and Antony Polansky, Basil Blackwell, 1986.
Week Six: Strong and Weak Nationalist Movements in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999. Yale University Press, 2003. Excerpt.
Miroslav Hroch, Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe: A Comparison of the Social Composition of Patriotic Groups in the Smaller European Nations. Columbia University Press, 2000. Excerpt.
Jan Zaprudnik and Michael Urban, "Belarus: From Statehood to Empire?" in New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations, ed. Ian Bremmer and Ray Taras. Cambridge University Press, 1997. PP. 276-315.
Recommended:
Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. Harvard University Press, 1992.
Keely Stauter-Halsted, The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914. Cornell University Press, 2001. See especially "The Village in the Nation: Polish Peasants as a Political Force," and "Conclusion: the Main Currents of Peasant Nationalism," pp. 216-248.
Week Seven: Jews in the Pre-War USSR
Zvi Gittelman, A Century of Ambivalence: the Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present, Indiana University Press, 1991. Chapters 1-4, pp. 1-143.
Louis Rapoport, Stalin's War Against the Jews: the Doctor's Plot and the Soviet Solution. Free Press, 1990. Chapters 3-7, pp. 24-127.
Week Eight: Communism, anti-Communism, and anti-Semitism
Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-46, edited by Norman Davies and Antony Polansky. MacMillan, 1991. Introduction, and Jan Tomasz Gross, "The Sovietization of Western Ukraine and Western Byelorussia," pp. 1-76.
Dov Levin, The Lesser of Two Evils: Eastern European Jewry under Soviet Rule, 1939-1941. The Jewish Publication Society, 1995. Chapters 1-3, 11-14, pp. 3-64, 235-303.
Week Nine: The Legacy of the Holocaust: the U.S.
Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life. Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Chapters 7-11, pp. 127-263.
Week Ten: The Legacy of the Holocaust: Israel
Tom Segev, The Seventh Million: the Israelis and the Holocaust. Hill and Wang, 1993. Parts IV-VI, pp. 189-386.