Destruction Revised: Revisionism, Trivialization and Denial - JMM425

• Title: Destruction Revised: Revisionism, Trivialization and Denial
• Guaranteed by: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2011
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (15)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Hana Kubátová, M.A., Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: KLAMKOVA (21.02.2011)

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS COURSE WILL START ON MARCH 2 ONLY! IN CASE YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS COURSE, PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL!
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This course will examine issues of Holocaust revisionism, trivialization and the denying of Shoa. First we will analyze the history of revisionism, its roots and development. In the second part of the course we will discuss the various revisionist authors and their impact and place in historiography of the Holocaust (Bardèche, Rassinier, Barnes, App and Irving). In the third part, we will look closer at contemporary Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary and investigate the place, level and roots of trivializing Holocaust in these post-communist countries. In the last part, we will ask whether the tragedy of Holocaust requires "appropriate" means of representation (eg. can Spiegelman’s comics Maus or Roberto Benigni’s comedy Life is Beautiful be seen as a profanation of the tragedy?)

Literature

Last update: KLAMKOVA (01.02.2011)

Required Readings:

All required readings will be available for students on MOODLE. All required readings will thus be available in a pdf format.

Recommended Readings:

Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust, (Yale University Press: 2002).

Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, (Plume: 1994).

Deborah Lipstadt, History on Trial : My Day in Court with David Irving (Ecco: 2005).

Michael Shermer, Denying History: Who Says Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It (University of California Press: 2002).

Michael Shafir, Between Denial and "Comparative Trivialization" (Jerusalem: Rubin Mass, 2002).

Norman Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, (Verso: 2003).

Norman Finkelstein, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, (University of California Press: 2005).

Robert Eaglestone, Postmodernism and Holocaust Denial, (Totem Books: 2001).

Michael Shermer, Denying History: Who Says Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It, (University of California Press: 2002).

Robert Jan Van Pelt, The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial, (Indiana University Press: 2002).

Richard J. Evans, Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial, (Basic Books: 2002).

D.D. Guttenplan, The Holocaust on Trial, (W. W. Norton & Company: 2002).

Registration requirements

Last update: KLAMKOVA (21.02.2011)

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS COURSE WILL START ON MARCH 2 ONLY! IN CASE YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS COURSE, PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL!