Holocaust in Film and Literature, Lec 1, German 59, UCLA

Course Description:
German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination of challenges and problems encountered in trying to imagine its horror through media of literature and film.

About the Professor:
Todd Presner is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies. His research focuses on German-Jewish intellectual and cultural history, the history of media, visual culture, digital humanities, and cultural geography. He is the author of two books: The first, Mobile Modernity: Germans, Jews, Trains (Columbia University Press, 2007), maps German-Jewish intellectual history onto the development of the railway system; the second, Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration (Routledge, 2007), analyzes the aesthetic dimensions of the strong Jewish body.

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• judaism

[celticwelsh]

He makes a couple of bizarre mistakes in this. Genocides occurred long before the beginning of the 20th century and are not a "new invention". Also the Nazi's DID want to wipe out homosexuals and gypsies, and managed this in some countries (something they never actually managed with Jews). These seem to be silly mistakes coming from a guy lecturing on the Holocaust.

[thegreeensky]

he looks really cool.. surely will discuss well... very smart speaker!

[xiaoxueho]

I really enjoyed and appreciated your lecture, professor. I am a Taiwanese, luckily doing without any holocuaust so far. But most of my favorite modern novelists are Jewish and from them I read 'fear.'

[eddyman12345]

@filosofomaledetto Sobe Green Tea

[filosofomaledetto]

I'm an italian student, excellent for sure, but only a curiosity: what the hell is he drinking?

[adace1]

Excellent professor. I'm taking him now for German 109. I highly recommend him!