Syllabus
The Holocaust in European Historiography
Fall Term 2011
Lead instructor and examinator
Stéphane Bruchfeld
Tel: 018-4716392
stephane.bruchfeld@valentin.uu.se
Instructor
Tomislav Dulic
Matthew Kott
Course administrator
Tania Langerova
Tel: 018-4716391
tania.langerova@valentin.uu.se
Tel: 018-471 63 95
tomislav.dulic@valentin.uu.se
matthew.kott@ucrs.uu.se
Reading List:
Engel, D.: The Holocaust. The Third Reich and the Jews
(London: Longman, Seminar Series in History, 1999) ISBN: 0582327202 [160pp]
Bloxham, D. & Kushner, T.: The Holocaust. Critical Historical Approaches
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005) ISBN: 0719037794 [240pp]
Levi, N. & Rothberg, M.: The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings
(Piscataway: Rutgers University Press, 2003) ISBN: 0813533538 [512pp]
This book is unfortunately now out-of-print, but articles and texts will be indicated and made
available separately.
Levi, P: The Drowned and the Saved
(London: Abacus, 1989) ISBN: 0-3491-0047-0 [170pp]
Stone, D.: The Historiography of the Holocaust
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) ISBN: 1-4039-9927-9 [592pp]
The books are best purchased on-line.
Supplemental texts will be distributed/indicated ahead of the sessions.
All sessions will take place at Thunbergsvägen 3D, 1st floor, House 4, in the Hugo Valentin
Room (4-1020). Any changes will be announced ahead of the lecture by email.
Prior to some of the seminars a short essay must be written and submitted to the instructor in a
printed-out version.
Date
Time
Session title
Instructor Literature
7 Nov
13.15 –
17.00
Lecture 2/Seminar Introduction.
Dilemmas of the Holocaust:
Cultural, historiographical,
intellectual, methodological,
moral, psychological....
SB
28 Nov
13.15 –
17.00
5 Dec
10.15 –
13.00
14 Dec
10.15 –
12.00
13.15 –
17.00
Lecture 2/Seminar
A “twisted road to Auschwitz”?
Centre or periphery? Ideological
intentions or cumulative
radicalization and functional
contingencies? The history of
Holocaust historiography:
Debates and issues.
Lecture 3/Seminar: The Nazi
MK
persecution and genocide of the
'Gypsies'. History and problems
of historiography.
Lecture 4: Holocaust research in TD
former Yugoslavia
Lecture 5/Seminar: The
SB
testimony. Film and meeting
with a survivor.
19 Dec
23 Dec
10 Jan
15.00
13.15 –
17.00
Essays have to be handed in
Lecture 6/seminar: Essay
discussions. The Grey Zone, the
living and the dead. Images and
“memes” of the Holocaust in
culture and historiography.
SB
Bloxham & Kushner:
Introduction
Engel: Ch. 1 & Ch. 8
Levi & Rothberg: General
Introduction, Part XI
Levi: Preface and ch. 1
Stone: Introduction, ch 24
Bloxham & Kushner: Ch. 2-3
Engel: Ch. 3-4, 6
Levi & Rothberg: Part II-IV
Stone: Ch. 1-6, 8-9
Stone: Ch. 17
Articles by Lewy, WeissWendt and Woodcock.
Stone: Ch. 19-20
Engel: Ch. 5 & 7
Bloxham, D. & Kushner, T.:
Ch. 1
Levi: Passim
Levi & Rothberg: Part I, ch. 25,
47, 51
Stone: Ch. 22
Bloxham & Kushner:
Engel: Ch. 8
Levi: Ch. 2 and passim
Levi & Rothberg: Part VII-IX
Stone: Ch 12