The Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany) offers an International Summer
University course on
"Anti-Semitism in the Third Reich: Origins and Consequences"
The International Summer University (FUBiS) will take place from July 31st
through August 27th 1999.
The language of instruction will be English.
This course will be taught by Dr. Ekkehard Kausa, who work as
"Gedenkstättenreferent" (civil servant, responsible for memorial centers for
the victims of Nazism) in Berlin's State Ministry for Cultural Affairs. In
addition to that he gives lectures on the history of the holocaust at the
Freie Universitaet Berlin.
Course description:
Anti-Semitism bedeviled Christian societies long before Martin Luther called
for the burning of synagogues and other violent anti-Jewish measures,
some of which seemed to foreshadow the Nazi pogroms of the "Kristallnacht".
We will deal with the history of anti-Semitism in Europe and consider
Daniel Goldhagen's thesis on German anti-Semitism as being one unique in its
"eliminationist" furor, even responding gladly to Hitler's sanctioning of
the killing of as many Jews as possible. We will read texts written by
Goldhagen and his critics. After a brief survey of the course of Jewish
emancipation in Germany and Jewish contributions to German culture before
1933, we will analyze the role of German anti-Semitism before and
during the Nazi period. We will look at attitudes amongst the German public
at that time which ranged from fanatic racism to political dissent and
even to a readiness to risk one's own life in helping the persecuted. We
will ask what became of anti-Semitism in Germany after the Holocaust and
examine the present attitudes concerning relations between Jews and
non-Jews. Excursions are planned to various centers of Jewish life in
Berlin, both past
and present, as well as to the historical sites of the perpetrators of the
Holocaust such as the "Topography of Terror" (former SS and Gestapo
headquarters)
and the House of the Wannsee Conference.
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The tuition for this course is DM 1,200.-. There is an additional onetime
registration fee of DM 150.-. Besides the above mentioned course we offer 14
other fully-credited courses covering topics on Berlin, Germany, and Europe.
More information on this course and the International Summer University in
general can be obtained from the Internet at
http://www.fu-berlin.de/summeruniversity.
Contact person:
Mr. Jens Westerfeld M.A.
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Department of International Affairs
Kaiserswerther Str. 16-18
14195 Berlin
Germany
Tel.: +49 30 838 73 445
Fax: +49 30 838 73 444
Email: mailto:[log in to unmask]
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