ATS4286 - Final journey: Remembering the Holocaust - 2019

This two-week intensive study abroad unit explores the modern history of European Jews before the destruction. Students will travel to the major centres of interwar Jewish life in Italy, Germany, Poland and Lithuania, and encounter the diverse heritage of Jewish life in each country. The unit will explore issues central to this period and the individuals who shaped their times. Students will visit museums, synagogues, cemeteries, destroyed ghettos, and sites of mass murder such as Auschwitz-Birkenau. We will ask what remains of the past, by looking at the ways in which the lost world of European Jews is being memorialised and renewed through tourism and return.

Upon successful completion of this unit students will have:

1. the capacity to locate the development of modern Jewish life in the context of modern Europe
2. a demonstrated ability to evaluate the social, political , economic and intellectual concerns of the inter-war community
3. an understanding of the institutions and individuals that shaped the interwar European Jewish communities
4. the capacity to describe and analyse the diversity of Jewish communal life and cultural expression in interwar Europe
5. an understanding of gender and class issues within the framework of the interwar European Jewish communities
6. an understanding of the significance of Yiddish as a literary and cultural phenomenon
7. a broader appreciation of the social history and cultural differences in Europe gained through study abroad
8. In addition, students at fourth-year level will have a familiarity with the primary sources and an appreciation of the historiographical problems involved in reconstructing a history of these destroyed communities.

Within semester assessment: 80% + Exam: 20%

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. + Additional requirements + This unit will be taught intensively at Prato

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Two-week intensive study abroad unit in Prato and other European sites

History

International studies