The Jews of Poland in the Second World War and the Holocaust Dr. Sara Bender Course Number: 127.8008 Semester: Sumer 2013 Class Time: Sundays, 10:00 14:00 Office Hours: Location: Tel.: (03) 641-9494 (Home) Class Location: (050) 4994418 Emails: Sbender@netvision.net.il">Sbender@netvision.net.il (03) 642-6442 Fax: Course Description: The course will examine the history of the Jews in Poland during World War II and the Holocaust, and it will focus on principal events undergone by Polish Jewry from the onset of War (1939) until the liberation (January 1945): the division of Poland (September 1939); Judenrats and Jewish leadership; Forced labor (1939-1941); Daily life in the Warsaw, Łodz, Białystok and Vilna ghettos ; Types of Jewish resistance (passive, armed, in the woods, shelter among Poles); The Warsaw ghetto uprising and work in the labor camps (1942-1945) as survival options. Course Requirements: Constant presence throughout the course and reading required materials. Final Grade: Class participation 30% Final Paper 70% Class No. 1, July 7, 2013 The Jews of Poland in the Interwar period 1918 1939 - Emanuel Melzer, No Way Out: The Politics of Polish Jewry, 1935-1939, Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College Press, 1997 - Assimilation, in: The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon Hundert, Yale University Press, 2008, vol. I, pp. 84-85 - Jerzy Tomaszewski, "The Civil Rights of Jews in Poland, 1918-1939," in Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 8 (London: Littmann, 1994), pp. 115-127 - Israel. Gutman, Polish Anti-Semitism between the Wars: An Overview, in: The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars, eds, Iisrael Gutman, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jehuda Reinharz and Chone Shmeruk, University press of New England, 1989, pp. 97-108
- Israel. Gutman, S. Krakowski, Unequal Victims, Holocaust Library New York, 1986, pp. 1-25 -Joanna Beata Michlic, Poland's Threatening Other, Nebraska 2006, pp. 69-109. Class No. 2 July 14, 2013 The Jews of Poland in World War II - GENERAL ITRODUCTION - Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, chaps 3-4, pp. 36-168 - The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews, vol. I, pp. 592-599 - Excerpts from: The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust and The Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Volume 2, Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe Class No. 3 July 21, 2013 - Introduction No. 2 - Christopher R. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 March 1942 (Jerusalem and Lincoln: Yad Vashem and University of Nebraska Press, 2004), chapter 2, pp. 12-35 - Dan Michman, The Jewish Ghettos under the Nazis and Their Allies: The Reasons Behind Their Emergence, in Guy Miron and Shlomit Shulhani, eds., The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009), pp. xiiixxxix - Martin Dean and Geoffrey P. Megargee, ed., The Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume 2, Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012) - Iisrael Gutman, The Concept of Labor in Judenrat Policy, Patterns of Jewish Leadership in Nazi Europe 1933-1945 (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1979), pp. 151-180 Class No. 4 July 28, 2013 - ŁÓDŹ. Unger, Michal, Reassessment of the image of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, Jerusalem Yad Vashem, 2004, pp. 7-54 DS135.P63R865 2004 001712359
Rosenfeld, Oskar, In the beginning was the ghetto : notebooks from Lodz, Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2002, Memoirs DS135.P63R589613 2002 001268924 Zelkovich, Yosef, In those terrible days: writings from the Lodz Ghetto,Jerusalem Yad Vashem, 2002, Memoirs DS135.P62L646813 2002 001062422 The chronicle of the Lodz ghetto, 1941-1944, New Haven,Yale University Press, 1984 (Introduction only) DS135.P62L634 1984 000076215 Sara Bender, The Jews in Bialystok during World War II and the Holocaust, Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, 2008, pp. 276-304 Class No. 5, August 4, 2013 - WARSAW (Warszawa) (PART I) - Gutman, Israel, The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943, Ghetto, Underground, Revolt, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1982, pp. 3-116 DS135.P62W374573 1982 000060922 - Lewin, Abraham, A cup of tears: a diary of the Warsaw Ghetto, Oxford, OX, UK: Basil Blackwell in association with the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, Oxford, 1989, Memoirs DS135.P62W37953 1989 000292511 - A commemorative Symposium in Honour of Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum and His "Oneg Shabbat" Underground Archives, Jerusalem Yad-Vashem, 1983, DS115.9.R5Y613 1983 001465823 - Adler, Stanislaw, In the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943: An account of a witness, Jerusalem Yad Vashem, 1982, Memoirs DS135.P62W242813 000091689
- Engelking-Boni, Barbara, The Warsaw ghetto: a guide to the perished city, New Haven,Yale University Press, 2009, DS135.P62W266513 2009 001663199 - Kassow, Samuel, Who will write our history? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, Bloomington Indiana University Press, 2007, pp. 49-143 DS135.P62W3765 2007 001464304 - Czerniakow, Adam, The Warsaw diary of Adam Czerniakow prelude to doom, New York Stein and Day, 1979, DS135.P62W34813 000111429 Class No. 6, August 11, 2013 Warsaw (Part II) - Lea Prais, An Unknown Chronicle: From the Literary Legacy of Rabbi Shimon Huberband, Warsaw Ghetto, May-June 1942, Yad Vashem Studies, 38:1 (2010), pp. 61-104 - - Szereszewska, Helena, Memoirs from occupied Warsaw, 1940-1945 / London : Vallentine Mitchell, 1997, Memoirs - DS135.P63S943713 1997 000814206 - - Rotem, Simhah, Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto fighter : the past within me, New Haven Yale University Press, 1994, Memoirs DS135.P62W412613 1994 000670113 - - Miedzyrzecki, Feigele Peltel, On both sides of the wall : memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto, Ghetto Fighters House, 1973, Memoirs DS135.P62W38613 1973 000323580 Mitchell, 1969, Zylberberg, Michael, The Warsaw diary, 1939-1945, London Vallentine, DS135.P62W46 000159638 - Bartoszewski, Wladyslaw, Warsaw death ring, 1939-1944, Warsaw Interpress, 1968, Memoirs
- D802.P62W3233 000292086 Zuckerman, Isaac, The fighting ghettos, Philadelphia 1962, J. B. Lippincott, Memoirs DS126.3.Z813 000316962 Class No. 7, August 18, 2013 - Bialystok Grosman, Haikah. The underground army : fighters of the Bialystok ghetto, New York : Holocaust Library, 1987, Memoirs DS126.3.G75513 1987 000241786 Sara Bender, The Jews in Bialystok during World War II and the Holocaust, Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, 2008, pp. 90-154; 185-215; 243-276 Class No. 8, August 25, 2013 - Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius) - Kazimierz Sakowicz, Ponary Diary 1941 1945: A Bystander s Account of a Mass Murder, edited by Yitzhak Arad, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005, pp. 11-43 - Yitzhak Arad, The Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Jerusalem and Lincoln: Yad Vashem and University of Nebraska Press, 2009, pp. 88-121 - Arad, Yitzhak, Ghetto in flames: the struggle and destruction of the Jews in Vilna in the Holocaust / Jerusalem Yad Vashem, 1980 DS135.L52V446813 1980 000128294 Class No. 9 September 1, 2013 - Ghetto Uprising Fact or Myth? - Gutman, Israel, Resistance - The Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1994, pp. 120-259 DS135.P62W37453 1994 000629648
- Krall, Hanna, Shielding the flame : An intimate conversation with Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, New York, H. Holt, 1986, DS135.P62W377913 000109791 - Zuckerman, Yitzhak, A surplus of memory: chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Berkeley University of California Press, 1993 DS126.3.Z7713 1993 000559340 - Wdowinski, David, And we are not save, New York, Philosophical Library, 1985, pp. 1-101 DS135.P62W437 1985 000190847 - - Wdowinski, David, And we are not saved, London : W. H. Allen, 1964, pp. 23-123 - DS135.P62W437 000323589 - - Borzykowski, Tuvia, Between tumbling walls, Beit Lohamei Hagettaot and Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1972 Memoirs - DS135.P62W3413 000036879 - Stroop, Jurgen, The Stroop report: the Jewish quarter of Warsaw is no more!, New York,Pantheon Books, 1979 Memoirs DS135.P62W412913 000129521 - - Friedman, Philip, Martyrs and fighters : the epic of the Warsaw ghetto, New York F. A. Praeger, 1954 - DS135.P62W363 000323571