HIST 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Yom Hashoah, Anne Frank, Middle Ages
26 Feb 2018
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Anne frank exhibition- sept 26-nov 26 at central branch, 130 johnson street. For next week: read chapter 1 of goda. 1961* & the banality of evil: the holocaust used to be a taboo subject, courses like this are a recent phenomenon (since the. Derive lessons from it: even term holocaust itself is problematic. Light candles for the dead: english translated as holocaust remembrance day, not widely observed until 1960s- for a while nobody wanted to talk about it including. Jews and israelis: not everyone in israel welcomed holocaust survivors, sabra- cactus, prickly on outside sweet on inside. Jewishness is downplayed: universal tragic figure, #1 consumer is us, #2 is japan, symbolizes victimhood, can be used for many purposes, ex. Auschwitz and lost her first child there: 1960s- silence slowly broken. Leonard cohen- musician, poet: wrote a poem in 1961 about eichmann trial, his own interpretation of the banality of evil, (cid:862)all there is to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) a(cid:271)out adolf ei(cid:272)h(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:374)(cid:863)
