YDSH 320
Lit Responses to the Holocaust

Credit: 3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course.

Course introduces a variety of Jewish literary responses to the Holocaust written during and after the Second World War (from 1939). The discussion of Holocaust memoirs, diaries, novels, short stories, poems, and other texts will focus on the unique contribution of literary works to our understanding of the Holocaust. In addition, the works and their authors will be situated in their Jewish cultural historical context. Taught in English translation. Same as CWL 320, ENGL 359, and RLST 320.