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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
History
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Ofer Ashkenazi
Coordinator Office Hours:
please email me to schedule a meeting
Teaching Staff:
Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi
Course/Module description:
Introduction to interesting trends in the period between the world wars. The exercise will focus on reading sources from the period, highlighting important developments in culture, thought, and politics, with an emphasis on transnational processes. We will discuss the implications of broad phenomena such as post-World War I colonialism, rethinking of sexuality and gender, the sense of a 'general crisis' and the 'decline of the West,' attempts to establish peace in an era of mass violence, and the drift toward another 'inevitable' war in Europe.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
By the end of the course, students will be familiar with several approaches to analyzing textual and visual sources for a better understanding of historical reality. They will have a deeper understanding of the historical experience between the world wars and the factors that contributed to the outbreak of another world war just a few years after the catastrophe of World War I.
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
The "Decline of the West" and the "Crisis of Man."
The Democratic Revolution in Germany.
Alternatives to Democracies.
Modernity-Modernism.
Depression and the "New Deal."
The Rise of "Democtatorship" in Germany.
Life and Death in Nazi Germany.
Colonization and International Relations in the 1930s.
The Munich Agreement.
Required Reading:
בין השאר, המקורות האלה:
קטע מתוך "שקיעת המערב", שפנגלר, 1917
Ernst Simmel, "War Neurosis" (WR Sourcebook)
קטעים מתוך חוקת הרפובליקה של ויימאר (WRSB)
Stalin, The Industrialization of the Country, 1928
Lenin, European War and International Socialism, 20-24
מניפסט 25 הנקודות של ה-NSDAP
היטלר, מיין קאמפף, 57-81
Benito Mussolini, What is Fascism?
ברטנרד ראסל, על חוסר הוודאות המודרני
חוזה אורטגה אי גאסט, המרד של ההמון
איינשטיין ופרויד, "למה מלחמה?"
נאום ההשבעה הראשון של פ.ד. רוזוולט (4 במרץ, 1933)
Hitlerjugend Quex (1933)
Joseph Goebbels, "Why are we Enemies of the Jews?" (1930)
Mosse, Nazi Culture, 11-16, 151-159, 163-168
טימותי סניידר, "אירופה", "היטלר וסטאלין", ארצות דמים, 7-41
בניסיון להבין את טבח ננג'ינג, זמנים, 105
Additional Reading Material:
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 60 %
Active Participation / Team Assignment 20 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 20 %
Additional information:
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