Holocaust in Film and Literature, Lec 6, 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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[bohemiandaisy9]

I am signing up for this class(hopefully) for fall quarter!

[licianinh]

I can safely say that almost every book written here in Israel by an Ashkenazi today still has a very strong Holocaust overtone, even if the focus of the book isn't about the Holocaust. You can even make a game of finding a novel that doesn't contain at least one reference to the Holocaust. I think that only when a generation that doesn't know any holocaust survivor first hand (those born in 10 years' time?) will begin to write will we be able to speak of "post-Holocaust" writing.