Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in the modern era – Syllabus 2023-24

Unit 1rst 4/10/2023
Title: Introduction to the Concepts of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
Subtitle: Is There Antisemitism Today?

Unit 2nd 11/10/2023
Title: The Prehistory of Anti-Semitism

Unit 3rd 18/10/2023
Title: The Passage from Jewish Emancipation to Modern Anti-Semitism
Subtitle: The first crises of liberal economics, nationalism, and the creation of minorities

Unit 4th 25/10/2023
Title: Conspiracy Theories
Subtitle: The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and their prehistory. The sharpening of opposition in Tsarist Russia and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Unit 5th 1/11/2023
Title: The Protocols and the Identification of Judaism with Bolshevism
Subtitle: Ideological Routes of Blockades

Unit 6th 8/11/2023
Title: The Zionist Movement and Conspiracy Theories
Subtitle: Political Zionism and British Politics

Unit 7th 11/15/2023
Title: The example of Thessaloniki
Subtitle: Zionist Movement, World War I and the Fire of 1917

Unit 8th 11/22/2023
Title: The formation of an anti-Semitic climate in interwar Europe
Subtitle: The Genealogy of Hitler’s ‘Redemptive Anti-Semitism’

Unit 9th 29/11/2023
Title: Nazism and the idea of extermination. The Holocaust
Subtitle: The “Jew” as abstraction

Unit 10th 6/12/2023
The death camps.

Unit 11th 3/12/2023
Title: Memory of the Holocaust

Unit 12th 12/20/2024
Title: Postwar Anti-Semitism: The “Islamization” of European Anti-Jewish Myths
Subtitle: How do you recognize anti-Semitism today? When your community faced anti-Semitism, what measures were taken?

CHRISTMAS Holidays

Unit 13th 10/1/2024
Overview

After completing this course, students will be able to:

– Describe and identify historical circumstances within which Modern Anti-Semitism was developed. Μore broadly to understand the process of forming racist theories and ideologies of discrimination.
– To deepen in the process of shaping the “imaginary Jew” product of a collective fantasy of the late 19th and early 20th century and the corresponding processes today.
– Describe and identify the historical circumstances in which Nazism carried out the genocide of the Jewish population of Europe in an industrial way.
– Understand the new forms of anti-Semitism as they emerged after the Second World War and to recognize them in the modern public sphere (politics, religion, media).
– To recognize and treat critically the multiple and differing historiographical interpretations of this process.
– To learn studying primary historical sources and produce historical arguments through which they’ll be able to explain the causes of events, their results and the long-term consequences.
– Explain historical continuity and change.

Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)

1) Edgar Morin, Ο νεωτερικός κόσμος και το εβραϊκό ζήτημα, Ι. ΝΙΚΟΛΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΙΑ Ε.Ε, Αθήνα 2008.

2) Άννα Φραγκουδάκη, Η δυτική μυωπία, η ισχύς του σεξισμού και η άρνηση του αντισημιτισμού, Αλεξάνδρεια, Αθήνα 2022.

Additional bibliography for study

Ξενόγλωσση βιβλιογραφία

 Baquiast Paul, La Troisième République, 1870-1940, éd. L’ Harmattan, Παρίσι 2002.
 Birnbaum Pierre, The anti–Semitic moment. A tour of France in 1898, Hill and Wang,
Νέα Υόρκη 2003 (2η έκδ.)
 Brustein, William I. Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
 Chanes, Jerome A. Antisemitism: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABCCLIO, 2004.
 Cohen, Susan Sarah, editor. Antisemitism: An Annotated Bibliography. Munich: K.
G. Saur, 1987.
 Fineberg, Michael, Shimon Samuels, and Mark Weitzman, editors. Antisemitism: The
Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007
 Gildea Robert, Barricades and borders. Europe 1800-1914, Oxford University Press,
Νέα Υόρκη 1987.
 Graves, Philip (September 4, 1921b), “‘Jewish World Plot’: An Exposure. The Source
of ‘The Protocols of Zion’. Truth at Last” (PDF), The New York Times, Front p, Sec (για το
παραπάνω βλ. http://emperor.vwh.net/antisem/first.pdf )
 Herf, Jeffrey, editor. Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective:
Convergence and Divergence. London: Routledge, 2007.
 Katz, Jacob. From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.7
 Klier John, “Christians and Jews and the “dialogue of violence” in late Imperial
Russia”, στο Andrew R. Murphy(edit), The Blackwell companion to religion and violence,
Wiley-Blackwell, 2002.
 Lazare, Bernard. Antisemitism: Its History and Causes. Lincoln, NE: University of
Nebraska Press, 1995.
 Levy, Richard S. Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and
Persecution. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
 Michael, Robert, editor. Dictionary of Antisemitism from the Earliest Times to the
Present. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2007.
 Pierrard Pierre, Les Chretiens et l’affaire Dreyfous, Les éditions de l’Atelier,
Παρίσι 1998
 Poliakov, Leon. The History of Anti-Semitism. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
 Rosenbaum, Ron, editor. Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism.
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004.
 Roth Cecil, A short history of the Jewish people, East and West, Οξφόρδη 1935.
 Tanja, Jaap. Fifty Questions on Antisemitism. Amsterdam: Anne Frank House, 2005.

Ελληνόγλωσση βιβλιογραφία

 Αμπατζοπούλου Φραγκίσκη, Ο άλλος εν διωγμώ, Αθήνα: Θεμέλιο1998.
 Μαργαρίτης Γιώργος, Ανεπιθύμητοι συμπατριώτες. Στοιχεία για την καταστροφή των
μειονοτήτων στην Ελλάδα, Εβραίοι, Τσάμηδες, Βιβλιόραμα, Αθήνα 2005
 Mαρκέτος Σπύρος, «Έθνος χωρίς εβραίους: απόψεις της ιστοριογραφικής
κατασκευής του ελληνισμού», Σύγχρονα Θέματα, 52-53, Ιούλιος Δεκέμβριος 1994, σ. 52-69
και όλο το αφιέρωμα-τεύχος των Σύγχρονων Θεμάτων.
 Μπενβενίστε Ρίκα, «Σκέψεις για τον ελληνικό αντισημιτισμό», Σύγχρονα Θέματα, 91,
Οκτώβριος – Δεκέμβριος 2005, σ. 41.
 Μπουρνάζος Στρατής, «Το ελληνικό αντικομμουνιστικό έντυπο (1925 – 1967). Μια
πρώτη προσέγγιση», Αρχειοτάξιο, 5, Μάιος 2003, σ. 52 – 63.
 Ταγκυέφ Πιερ-Αντρέ, Ο μύθος των «Σοφών της Σιών», Πόλις, Αθήνα 2006.
 Ταγκυέφ Πιερ-Αντρέ, Τι είναι αντισημιτισμός; Βιβλιοπωλείον της Εστίας, Αθήνα
2011.
 Τσιρώνης Θεοδόσης, «Η οργάνωση Εθνική Ένωσις “Η Ελλάς” (Ε.Ε.Ε.) στη
Θεσσαλονίκη του Μεσοπολέμου (1927 – 1936). Τα καταστατικά και η δράσης της»,8
Επιστημονική Επετηρίδα του Κέντρου Ιστορίας Θεσσαλονίκης του Δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης, τ. 6,
Κ.Ι.Θ., Θεσσαλονίκη 2002, σ. 293 – 313.
 Φλάννερυ Έντουαρντ Χ., Η αγωνία των Εβραίων. 2.300 χρόνια αντισημιτισμού,
Νησίδες, Θεσσαλονίκη 2006.
 Χριστινίδης Ανδρέας, Εχθρότητα και προκατάληψη. Ξενοφοβία, Αντισημιτισμός,
Γενοκτονία, Αθήνα: Ίνδικτος, 2003.
 Ψαρράς Δημήτρης, Το μπεστ σέλερ του μίσους. Τα “Πρωτόκολλα των σοφών της
Σιών” στην Ελλάδα, 1920-2013, Πόλις, Αθήνα 2013.