Gendered Memories of the Holocaust 4219-SD158-OG

The course aims to interrogate the emerging field created by the intersection of Jewish Studies, Memory Studies and Gender Studies to study the literary and artistic representation of the Holocaust. The course covers the topics of how Memory of Holocaust is inscribed, framed, mediated and performed. It consists of two parts: an overview and theoretical introduction is followed by the analyses of the different forms, and sites of representation: literature, ego documents, films, internet, textbooks, statues, monuments, photos, oral histories, you-tube videos.

This course is a part of parallel teaching with prof. Andrea Peto at Central European University in Budapest. There will be 2 video conferences with the students in Budapest and probably a shared e-platform.

List of topics include:
1 Introduction

2 Defining the Problems

3 Memory and Gendering of Holocaust

4 Memorialization and Gender

5 Gendering Perpetrator Research

6 Photography and Post-Memory

7 Sexual Violence Remembered

8 Memorializing the Holocaust

Type of course

general courses

Learning outcomes

-understanding the power relations how memories were constructed, especially gendering the memories of war and political violence
-understanding of Holocaust in a broad historical context and its impact on history writing

-making critical and thoughtful use of a range of sources of information about political violence
-selecting, organizing and using relevant information in structured explanations
-evaluating validity of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach to war and political violence

-developing a sensitive approach to discussing controversial topics

Assessment criteria

Participation in in-class discussions: 10%
Response papers: 30%
In-class presentation: 20%
Final paper: 40%

Bibliography

Peto, Andrea, Hecht, Louise, Krasuska, Karolina, „Introduction” in Women and Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges. eds. Pető, Andrea, Hecht, Louise, Krasuska, Karolina, IBL, Warsawa, 2015, 9-27.
Pető, Andrea„“Hungary 70”: Non-remembering the Holocaust in Hungary” in Culture & History Digital Journal 3. 2. 2014.
Ringelheim, Joan, “The Split Between Gender and the Holocaust,” in Women and the Holocaust, 340-350.
Dworkin, Andrea, http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/TheUnremembered.html
Bos, Pascale Rahel, “Women and the Holocaust: Analysing Gender Difference. Experience and Expression” in Women, the Nazis and the Holocaust. eds. Baer, Elisabeth R., Goldenberg, Myrna, Wyne State University Press, 2003, 23-50.
Reading, Anna, The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust: Gender, Culture and Memory. Palgrave, 2002, 29-50.
Horowitz, Sara R., "Gender, Genocide, and Jewish Memory," in Prooftexts 20, 1-2, 2000, 158-190.
Andrews, Sue, "Remembering the Holocaust—Gender Matters,” in Social Alternatives 22, 2, 2003, 16-21.
Mushaben, Joyce Marie, „Memory and the Holocaust: Processing the Past through a Gendered Lens” in History of the Human Sciences. 2-3, 17, 2004, 147-185.
Schandler, Jeffrey, “From Diary to Book: Text, Object, Structure,” in Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Jeffrey Schandler, eds., Bloomington, in Indiana University Press, 2012, 25-59.
Jacobs, Janet, “Women and Representation at Auschwitz” and “Ravensbrück: The Memorialization of Women’s Suffering and Survival,” in Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide, and Collective Memory, London: IB Tauris, 2010, 27-83.
Pető, Andrea, “Gendered Exclusions and Inclusions in Hungary’s Right-Radical Arrow Cross Party (1939-1945): A Case Study of Three Female Party Members” in Hungarian Studies Review 1-2, 2014, 107-131.
Pető, Andrea, „Who is afraid of the “ugly women”? Problems of writing biographies of Nazi and Fascist women in countries of the former Soviet Block?” In Journal of Women’s History, 4. 2009, 147-151.
Browning, Christopher, “German Memory, Judicial Interrogation, and Historical Reconstruction. Writing Perpetrator History from Postwar Testimony” in Friedlander, Saul, eds. Probing the Limits of Representation, Cambridge, Harvard UP, 1992, 22-36.
Kellenbach, Katharina, von, “Vanishing Acts: Perpetrators in Postwar Germany” in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17. 2. 2003, 305-329.
Schwarz, Gudrun, “‘During Total War, We Girls Want to Be Where We Can Really Accomplish Something’” in Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century, eds. Omer Bartov, Atina Grossmann, and Mary Nolan, New York: The New Press, 2002, 121-137.
Hirsch, Marianne, Family Frames. Photography, Narrative and Postmemory. Harvard UP, 2002, 241-268.
Hirsch, Marianne, Spitzer, Leo, „Incongruous Images: „Before, During and After”: The Holocaust” in History and Theory 48. 2009, 9-25.
Hirsch, Marianne, “Nazi Photographs in Post-Holocaust Art: Gender as an Idiom of Memorialization” in Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century, eds. Bartov, Omer, Grossmann, Atina, Nolan, Mary, New York: The New Press, 2002, 100-120.
Katz, Steven T. "Thoughts on the Intersection of Rape and Rassen[s]chande during the Holocaust" in Modern Judaism , 32. 3. 2012, 293-322.
Alison, Miranda, Bergoffen, Debra, Bos, Pascale, Toit, Louise du, Mühlhäuser, Regina, Zipfel, Gaby, “"My plight is not unique" Sexual violence in conflict zones: a roundtable discussion” in Eurozine, 2009. 1-18. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-09-02-zipfel-en.html
Beck, Birgit, ‘Rape: The Military Trials of Sexual Crimes Committed by Soldiers in the Wehrmacht, 1939–1944’, in Karen Hagemann, Stefanie Schueler-Springorum eds., Home/Front: the Military, War and Gender in Twentieth Century Germany, Oxford: Berg, 2002, 255-274.
Sinnreich, Helene “And It Was Something We Didn’t Talk about”: Rape of Jewish Women During the Holocaust”, Holocaust Studies 14. 2. 2008, 1-22.
Stier, Oren Baruch, Committed to Memory: Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust, University of Massachusetts Press, 2003, 110-150.
Reading, Anna, The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust: Gender, Culture and Memory. Palgrave 2002, 102-142.
Jacobs, Janet, Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory, London: I.B.Tauris, 2010, 29-82.

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