Philosophy and the Holocaust
Syllabus | Readings | Assignments | Handouts | Resources
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Readings
Class 2
Gavin Langmuir - From Anti-Judaism to Antisemitism
Class 4
Koonz - Racial War at Home
Class 5
Bennett - The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn
Garnett - Conscience and Conscientiousness
Class 6
Pushed to Their Psychological Limit
Browning and Goldhagen
Class 8
Zangwill - Perpetrator Motivation: Some Reflections on the Browning/Goldhagen Debate
Class 9
Piper - Auschwitz Concentration Camp: How it was used
in the Nazi system of terror and genocide and in the economy of
the Third Reich
Feig - Non-Jewish Victims in the Concentration Camps
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Class 13
Blum - The Poles, the Jews, and the Holocaust: reflections
on an AME trip to Auschwitz
Class 14
Levi - The Gray Zone
Langer - The Dilemma of Choice in the Concentration Camps
Class 16
Bartov - Spielberg’s Oskar: Hollywood Tries Evil
Class 17
Block/Drucker - Irene Opdyke
The Altruistic Personality
Class 18
Pawlikowski - The Catholic Response to the Holocaust
Phayer - The Silence of Pope Pius XII
Class 19
Littell - The Meaning of the Holocaust
Class 20
Nostra Aetate
Class 21
Rubenstein/Roth - The Silence of God: Philosophical and Religious Reflection on the Holocaust
Class 22
Vetlesen - Hannah Arendt and the Crisis of Judgment
Class 24
Baumann - Introduction: Sociology After the Holocaust
Class 25
Gaita - Genocide and the Holocaust
Timeline Assignment
The Moral Responsibility of the Men in Police Battalion 101
Primo Levi/Holocaust on Film Assignment
Final Holocaust Assignment
Study Questions For Final Exam On Nazi/Holocaust Basics
Langmuir - From Anti-Judaism to Antisemitism
Jones - Helpers, Rescuers, Bystanders
The Church and the Jews during the Holocaust
Littell - The Meaning of the Holocaust
Christianity Correcting for Antisemitism
Gaita - Genocide and the Holocaust
History Of Germany, Nazism, & Anti-Jewish Policies Before The Holocaust: An Outline
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (website)
Online Holocaust Resources (pdf)