The Jews of Poland in the Second World War and the Holocaust
Syllabus
Dr. Sara Bender
Semester: Summer 2014
Course number: 127.8009
Class Time: Wednesdays, 12:00 – 16:00
Tel. (03) 641-9494 (Home)
(050) 4994418
Emails: [email protected]
Fax: (03) 642-6442
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:
Final Grade:
Class participation
30%
Final Paper
70%
Class No. 1, July 2, 2014
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
-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 the two World Wars, 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
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-Israel. Gutman, S. Krakowski, Unequal Victims, Holocaust Library New York, 1986, pp. 125
-Joanna Beata Michlic, Poland's Threatening Other, Nebraska 2006, pp. 69-109.
Class No. 2 – July 9, 2014
The Jews of Poland in World War II - GENERAL ITRODUCTION
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Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, chaps 3-4, pp. 36-168
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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 16, 2014 - Introduction No. 2
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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
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Sara Bender, Judenrate and other Representative Bodies, in: The YIVO
Encyclopedia Jews in eastern Europe, Vol. 1(Yale University press, 2008)
pp. 835-837
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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. xiii-xxxix
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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)
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Israel 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 32, 2014 - ŁÓDŹ.
Unger, Michal, Reassessment of the image of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, Jerusalem Yad
Vashem, 2004 DS135.P63R865 2004 001712359
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Rosenfeld, Oskar, In the beginning was the ghetto : notebooks from Lodz, Evanston, Ill. :
Northwestern University Press, 2002 DS135.P63R589613 2002 001268924
Zelkovich, Yosef, In those terrible days : writings from the Lodz
Ghetto,Jerusalem Yad Vashem, 2002 DS135.P62L646813 2002 001062422
The chronicle of the Lodz ghetto, 1941-1944, New Haven,Yale University
Press, 1984 DS135.P62L634 1984 000076215
Class No. 5, July 30, 2014 - WARSAW (Warszawa) (PART I)
- Gutman, Israel, The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943, Ghetto, Underground,
Revolt, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1982, 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, 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, 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, DS135.P62W3765 2007 001464304
Czerniakow, Adam, The Warsaw diary of Adam
Czerniakow prelude to doom, New York Stein and Day, 1979
DS135.P62W34813 000111429
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Class No. 6, August 6, 2014 – Warsaw (Part II)
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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
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- Szereszewska, Helena, Memoirs from
occupied Warsaw, 1940-1945 / London : Vallentine Mitchell, 1997
DS135.P63S943713 1997 000814206
- Rotem, Simhah, Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto fighter : the
past within me, New Haven Yale University Press, 1994
DS135.P62W412613 1994 000670113
- Miedzyrzecki, Feigele Peltel, On both sides of the wall :
memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto, Ghetto Fighters House, 1973
DS135.P62W38613 1973 000323580
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Zylberberg, Michael, The Warsaw diary, 1939-1945, London
Vallentine, Mitchell, 1969, DS135.P62W46 000159638
Bartoszewski, Wladyslaw, Warsaw death ring, 1939-1944,
Warsaw Interpress, 1968, D802.P62W3233 000292086
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Zuckerman, Isaac, The fighting ghettos, Philadelphia 1962, J. B.
Lippincott, DS126.3.Z813 000316962
Class No. 7, August 13, 2014 - Bialystok
Grosman, Haikah. The underground army : fighters of the Bialystok
ghetto, New York : Holocaust Library, 1987. 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
Class No. 8, August 20, 2014 - Ghetto Uprising – Fact or Myth?
- Gutman, Israel Resistance - The Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1994
DS135.P62W37453 1994 000629648
- Bauer, Yehuda, Jewish reactions to the Holocaust, Tel-Aviv 1989, MOD Books,
DS126.3.B3247 1989 000258277
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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
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Zuckerman, Yitzhak, A surplus of memory: chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto
uprising, Berkeley University of California Press, 1993 DS126.3.Z7713
1993 000559340
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- Wdowinski, David, And we are not save, New York, Philosophical Library,
1985 DS135.P62W437 1985 000190847
Wdowinski, David, And we are not saved, London : W. H.
Allen, 1964, [c1963] DS135.P62W437 000323589
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Borzykowski, Tuvia, Between tumbling walls, Beit Lohamei
Hagettaot and Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1972 DS135.P62W3413 000036879
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Stroop, Jurgen, The Stroop report: the Jewish quarter of
Warsaw is no more!, New York,Pantheon Books, 1979
DS135.P62W412913 000129521
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Friedman, Philip, Martyrs and fighters : the epic of the Warsaw ghetto, New
York F. A. Praeger, 1954 DS135.P62W363 000323571
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