Northwestern Courses related to the “Certificate of Achievement” in Holocaust Studies
This Year’s (2022-2023) Courses
These courses are subject to change. Please check CAESAR for most up-to-date information.
WINTER 2023
Holocaust Studies Electives
HIS 101: Holocaust Testimonies
Benjamin Frommer
HIS 200: The Holocaust and Its Memory in Israel
Maayan Hilel
PSYCH 317: The Holocaust: Psychological Themes and Perspectives
Benjamin Gorvine
JWSH_ST396/RTVF398: Holocaust/Genocide in Film and TV
Miriam White
SLAVIC 390: From Sarmatians to Drag Queens:Two Centuries of Polish Literature
Michal Wilczewski
SPANISH232: Entre Convivencia e intolerancia: judíos, musulmanes y cristianos en la España medieval / Between coexistence and intolerance: Jews, Muslims and Christians in medieval Spain) Taught in Spanish
Rodrigo Garcia-Velasco
Context Courses
HIS 200: Jewish Material Culture
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
HIS 300: Comparative Genocide
Stefan Ionescu
HIS 348: Jews in Ukraine, Poland, and Russia (1250-1917)
Yohahan Petrovsky-Shtern
HIS 337: History of Modern Europe
Joel Mokyr
HIS 393: Mass Violence
Stefan Ionescu
GER 234: Jews and Germans: An Intercultural History
Peter Fenves
Courses of Interest
JWSH_ST: It’s Complicated: Love Stories in Hebrew Literature and Israeli Culture
Guy Ehrlich
HIS 101-6: History of the Self
Robin Bates
HIS 200: Conspiracy Theories: A Global History
Roberto Maza
HIS 200: World War II in Asia
Laura Hein
HIS 200: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Clash of Historical Narratives
Scott Abramson
HIS 200: Jewish Material Culture
Yohanan-Petrovsky- Shtern
GER 335: Minority Voices in Germany
Isabel von Holt
SLAVIC 105: From Fascism to Pussy Riot: Language
and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Elisabeth Elliott
SLAVIC 222: Language, Politics and Identity
Elisabeth Elliott
ANTHRO101: First Year Seminar: Pathologies of Power
Adia Benton
ANTHRO360: Oral History & Narrative
Katherine Hoffman
POLISCI 101: Whales, Bombs, Genocide
Ian Hurd
Fall 2022
Holocaust Studies Electives
SESP 351: Public Learning Through the Arts: Magic, Monsters and the Holocaust
Danny M. Cohen
Context Courses
HIS 101: Repairing Historical Injustices
Stefan Ionescu
HIS 103: The History and Politics of the Armenian Genocide
Ipek Yosmaoglu
HIS 200:The Jews of Southeastern Europe
Stefan Ionescu
GER 266: Introduction to Yiddish Culture: Images of the Shtetl
Marcus Moseley
REL 230: Introduction to Judaism
Barry Wimpfheimer
SPA 232: Discovering Jewish Latin America
Lucille Kerr
Courses of Interest
HIS 200-21: Leisure and Popular Culture in the 20th Century Israel/Palestine
Maayan Hilel
HIS 200-22: Ukraine: the Long Fight for Independence
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
HIS 300-0-28: Global History of Refugees
Lauren Stokes
HIS 395: Oral History and the Archives of Terror
Lina Britto
GER 232: Berlin and the Culture of Democracy
Isabel von Holt
GER 213: Politics, History & Culture in the 21st Century
Denise Meuser
GER 221: Introduction to Literature: 1945 to Present
Franziska Lys
POLISCI 384: International Responses to Mass Atrocities
Daniel Krcmaric
Previous Academic Years
Spring 2022
Holocaust Studies Electives
GENDER STUDIES 382-0 / HISTORY 393-0-24 Race, Gender and Sexuality
Topic: Gender, Race, & the Holocaust
Cushman, Sarah
GERMAN 331-0: Shattered Worlds: Representation after the Shoah
(course taught entirely in German)
Parkinson, Anna
HISTORY 395-0-22: Holocaust Trials
Frommer, Benjamin
PSYCHOLOGY 317: The Holocaust: Psychological Themes and Perspectives
Gorvine, Ben
SESP 324 - Pedagogies for History and Injustice: Holocaust Education Design
Cohen, Danny M.
Context Course
HISTORY 395-0-26 Between History & Memory: Jewish Autobiography As A Historical Source
Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan
JEWISH STUDIES 266-0-2 / GERMAN 266-0-2/COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 390-0-20: Introduction to Yiddish Culture: Images of the Shtetl
Moseley, Marcus
Courses of Interest (These courses do NOT count towards the Certificate of Achievement in Holocaust Studies).
GERMAN 346/COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 303-0-20 /JWSH_ST 396-0-1 Figurations of Jesus in Jewish-German Literature (taught in English)
Bischoff, Doerte
HISTORY 101-6-22: First-Year Seminar Repairing Historical Injustices
Ionescu, Stefan
HISTORY 200-0-30: A Global History of Prisons and Camps
Frommer, Benjamin
HISTORY 300-0-24: History of the Balkans
Ionescu, Stefan
Winter 2022
Core Course
HISTORY 349-0-20 History of the Holocaust
Ionescu, Stefan
Holocaust Studies Electives
HISTORY 101-6-20 First-Year Seminar History of the Self
Bates, Robin
HISTORY 392-0-20 Comparative Fascism
Stokes, Lauren
RELIGION 374 God After the Holocaust
Sufrin, Claire
Context Course
HISTORY 203-3-20: Jewish History III (1789-1948)
Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan
Fall 2021
Holocaust Studies Electives
HISTORY 393-0-22 Holocaust Restorative Justice
Ionescu, Stefan
JEWISH STUDIES 279-0-1 Jewish Graphic Narrative on the Holocaust
Mihailescu, Dana
SESP 323-0-20 Trauma and Atrocity: Holocaust Memory, Memorials and Museums
Cohen, Danny M.
Context Courses
HISTORY 201-2-20 Europe in the Modern World
Bates, Robin
HISTORY 344-0-2 / GER 344-2 Germany since 1945 (taught in English)
Stokes, Lauren
JEWISH STUDIES 278-0-1 Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation: Tales of Love and Darkness: Eros and Isolation in Modern Hebrew Literature
Moseley, Marcus
RELIGION 230-0-20 Introduction to Judaism
Sufrin, Claire
Spring 2021
Holocaust Studies Electives
GENDER STUDIES 382-0-20 / HISTORY 393-0-25 Race, Gender and Sexuality
Topic: Gender, Race, & the Holocaust
Cushman, Sarah
HISTORY 101-6-20 First-Year Seminar--European History
Topic: Holocaust Testimonies
Frommer, Benjamin
SESP 351-0-22 Special Topics
Topic: Magic, Monsters, and The Holocaust
Cohen, Daniel M.
Context Courses
GENDER STUDIES 321-0-22 / HISTORY 340-0-20 Gender, Sexuality and History: Gender, War, and Revolution in the 20th Century
Liu, Tessie; Sarcevic-Tesanovic, Rachel
HISTORY 101-6-22 First-Year Seminar-European History
Topic: History of the Self
Bates, Robin
HISTORY 203-1-20 Jewish History 750-1492
Shyovitz, David; Curry, Savoy
HISTORY 300-0-28 New Lectures in History
Topic: Second World War in Europe
Frommer, Benjamin; Laburthe, Alice; Howell, Elizabeth
JEWISH STUDIES 266-0-1 Introduction to Yiddish Culture: Images of the Shtetl
Moseley, Marcus
Winter 2021
HISTORY 300-0-20 Europe in the Age of Total War, 1789-1945
Bates, Robin
HISTORY 348-2 Jews in Poland, Ukraine and Russia, 1917-1991
Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan
HISTORY 349-0 History of the Holocaust
Ionescu, Stefan
Context Courses
HISTORY 393-0-24 Approaches to History
Antisemitism
Shyovitz, David
HISTORY 393-0-26 Approaches to History
Revolution, Dictatorship and Democracy
Ionescu, Stefan
RELIGION 230-0-22
Introduction to Judaism
Sufrin, Claire
Fall 2020
HISTORY 201-2-20 Europe in the Modern World
Bates, Robin
HISTORY 300-0 New Lectures in History: Comparative Genocide
Ionescu, Stefan; Howell, Elizabeth
HISTORY 348-1 – Jews in Poland, Ukraine, and Russia, 1250-1917: Social, political, religious, and cultural interaction of Jews and Slavs over a millennium, 1250-1917
Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan
PSYCHOLOGY 317-0 The Holocaust: Psychological Themes & Perspectives
Gorvine, Benjamin
SESP 324-0 Pedagogies for History and Injustice: Holocaust Education Design
Cohen, Danny M.