Admission requirements
Students must pass an entry exam, see Reading list below. Required reading will be announced later.
Description
No single historical event has left a deeper impression on the western world than the Holocaust. It has become an inescapable moral and polical benchmark. That was not always the case. Until the early sixties the Holocaust was almost absent in the memory of World War II. Nowadays it dominates, almost replaces this memory. In this course we will pose, and hopefully answer the question how and why this came about. Our research will focus on the Dutch case; the literature, mainly on Germany and the US, will provide an international perspective.
Course objectives
Understanding the relevant historiographical debate, developing research abilities and writing an presentation skills.
Timetable
See here
Mode of instruction
Seminar
Assessment method
Paper, presentation.
Blackboard
No
Reading list
Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American life (Boston 1999) also known as The Holocaust and collective memory (Londen 2000). The class will begin with an entrance examination on this book.
Registration
See here
Contact information
E-mail: Dr. B.E. van der Boom