courses

HIEU 138.    Why Hitler?  How Auschwitz?  An undergraduate survey course on the Holocaust, covering antisemitism in Germany, the Nazi seizure of power, methods of Nazi rule, plans for genocide, Jewish behavior in ghettos and camps, and postwar justice.

HIEU 132.  Germany from Luther to Bismarck.  This course begins with the Reformation, and surveys religious conflict, enlightened absolutism, the rise of Prussia, the era of the French Revolution, the 1848 revolution, Bismarck’s Three Wars, and the unification of Germany in 1871. 

HIEU 159.   Three Centuries of Zionism 1648-1948. A history of Jewish and Christian ideas about the return to Zion, the conditions in Europe which stimulated the modern Zionist movement,  and a  survey of  Jewish-Arab relations under the British Mandate. 

HITO 105.  Jewish Modernity from 1648 to 1948. An introduction to modern Jewish history, covering religious movements,  social structures, women’s roles, struggles for civic emancipation, the Holocaust, and  the founding of the State of Israel.

HIEU 171/271.  Politics in the Jewish Past. A combined undergraduate and graduate seminar in which we address Jewish civic autonomy in the late medieval era, the terms of emancipation in the era of enlightenment and revolution, the rise of the multiculturalist Bund party, Jews in socialist movements, and the consequences of a successful Zionist state in 1948. 

HIEU 145.    The Holocaust as Public History. This new course, offered for the first time in Winter 2009, addresses how the era is  represented today  in the United States, Europe and Israel; the aesthetics of various memorials, the historical accuracy of  memoirs, and the possible political meanings of Holocaust education in the present.  Students in this course will work closely with the Holocaust Living History Workshop, a project which brings together local San Diego Holocaust survivors and undergraduate students.