HU Credits: 4

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: History

Semester: Yearly

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Ofer Ashkenazi

Coordinator Email: ofer.ashkenazi@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Sunday, 15:00-16:00

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Ofer Ashkenazi
Prof Daniel Blatman

Course/Module description:
The seminar will discuss the representations of mass violence throughout the 20th century and consider the interrelations between history, representations, and memory of violence.

Course/Module aims:
Discussion of the above mentioned topics in different contexts and according to different theoretical frameworks.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Familiarity with the relevant literature and analytical approaches.

Attendance requirements(%):
80

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: discussion in class.

Course/Module Content:
General topics (for full program see syllabus):
1. Genocide and mass violence as historical categories.
2. Memory and history.
3. Application of film analysis to research of mass violence and its memory.
4. Case Studies: WWI, WWII, the Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, Indonesia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Palestine (etc.).

Required Reading:
Dan Stone, “The historiography of genocide: beyond 'uniqueness’ and ethical competition”,
Rethinking history: The Journal of Theory and Practice, vol. 8/1 (March 2004), pp. 127-142
Robert A. Rosenstone, “History in Images, History in Words”, in Visions of the Past. The Challenge of Films to our Idea of History, (Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 1995), pp. 19-43.
David Cesarani and Peter Longerich, “The Messaging of History” The Guardian, April 7, 2005
פייר נורה, ״מחוזות זיכרון״, זמנים 45 (קיץ 1993), עמ׳ 19-4.
Anton Kaes, “History and Film, Public Memory in an Age of Electronic Dissemination”, History and Memory, 2:1 (1990), pp. 111-129
Jay Winter, “Films and the Matrix of Memory”, The American Historical Review, 106/3, (2001), pp. 857-864.
Jay Winter, “Filming war”, Daedalus, 140/3 (2011), pp. 100-111
Dorothy B. Jones, “The Hollywood War Film: 1942-1944”, Hollywood Quarterly, 1/1 (1945), pp. 1-19
ת.ו אדורנו, "תעשיית תרבות: נאורות כהונאת המונים", בתוך: ת.ו אדורנו, מ. הורקהיימר, מבחר אסכולת פרנקפורט, בני ברק, ספריית פועלים, 1991, עמ׳ 194-158
Roger Luckhurst, “Traumaculture” New Formations 50/1 (2003), pp. 28-47
Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 119-144
Peter Ehrenhaus, “Why we Fought: Holocaust Memory in Spielberg’s Saving Privat Ryan” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 15/3 (2001), pp. 321-337
Christopher Garbowski, “The Glorious Dead and Sacred Communities in Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan and Wajda’s Katyń”, Religion and the Arts,18/3, (2014), pp. 373–398.
Andrew Hebard, “Disruptive Histories: Toward a Radical Politics of Remembrance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog”, New German Critique, 71, (1997), pp. 87-113.
Daniel Uziel, The Propaganda Warriors: The Wehrmacht and the Consolidation of the German Home Front, (Bern: Peter Lang, 2008), pp. 243-254, 266-294
Siegfried Zielinski and Gloria Custance, “History as Entertainment and Provocation: The TV Series "Holocaust" in West Germany”, New German Critique, No. 19/1, (1980), pp. 81-96
Sander L. Gilman, “Is Life Beautiful? Can the Shoah Be Funny? Some Thoughts on Recent and Older Films”, Critical Inquiry 26/ 2 (2000), pp. 279-308
Sidra Ezrahi, “After Such Knowledge, What Laughter?” The Yale Journal of Criticism 14/ 1 (2001), pp. 287-313
שאול פרידלנדר, קיטש ומוות, על השתקפות הנאציזם, ירושלים, כתר, 1985, עמ׳ 106-77
Leshu Torchin, “To Acquaint America with Ravished Armenia,” Creating the Witness: Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), 2012, pp. 21-60
Ben Kiernan, “Myth, nationalism and genocide”, Journal of Genocide Research, (2001) 3(2), 187–206
Lars Waldorf, “Revisiting Hotel Rwanda: genocide ideology, reconciliation and rescuers, Journal of Genocide Research 11/1 (2009), pp. 101-125
Lee En-Han, “The Nanking Massacre Reassessed: A Study of the Sino-Japanese Controversy over Factual Number of Massacred Victims”, in: Fei Fei li et.al (eds.). Nanking 1937, (New York: M.E Sharp, 2002), pp. 47-74
Ian Buruma, “From Tenderness to Savagery in Seconds,” New York Review of Books (October 2011)
Neil Macmaster, “The torture controversy (1998–2002): towards a ‘new history’ of the Algerian War?”, Modern & Contemporary France 10/4, (2002), pp. 449–459
William B. Cohen, “The Algerian War, The French State and Official Memory”, Historical Reflections Réflexions historiques, 28/2 (2002), pp. 219-239
Ilaria A De Pascalis, “The (in)visibility of violence: Jasmila Žbanić’s post-war cinema”, European Journal of Women’s Studies, 23/4 (2016), pp. 365–380
אמל ג'מאל, "דפוסותיה ומקורותיה של דחיקת זכרון הנכבה הפלסטינית מן התודעה הציבורית הישראלית", אמל ג'מאל ואפרים לביא (עורכים), הנכבה בזכרון הלאומי של ישראל, אוניברסיטת תל אביב, 2015, עמ׳ 113- 142
עאדל מאנע, נכבה והשרדות, תל אביב, הקיבוץ המאוחד, 2017, עמ׳ 86-130

Additional Reading Material:
Please see syllabus.

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 20 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 80 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

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