ECTS:

4

Code:

ΚΕ0Χ32

Cycle / Level:

Undergraduate

Compulsory / Optional:

Optional

Teaching Period:

Winter

Course Content:

Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in modern times – Syllabus 2021-22

Section 1
Title: Introduction to the history of Anti-Semitism
Subtitle: The Prehistory of Anti-Judaism

Section 2
Title: The transition from Jewish emancipation to modern anti-Semitism
Subtitle: The first crises of the liberal economy, nationalism and the creation of minorities

Section 3
Title: Conspiracy theories
Subtitle: The “Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion” and their prehistory. The sharpening of contradictions in tsarist Russia and the Protocols of the Sages of Zion

Section 4
Title: The Zionist movement and conspiracy theories
Subtitle: Political Zionism and British Politics

Section 5th
Title: The beginnings of the Zionist movement in Thessaloniki
Subtitle: Zionist Movement, World War I and the Fire of 1917

Section 6
Title: The identification of Judaism with Bolshevism
Subtitle: Ideological paths of exclusion

Section 7
Title: The formation of an anti-Semitic climate in interwar Europe
Subtitle: The genealogy of Hitler’s “redemptive anti-Semitism”

Section 8
Title: Nazism and the idea of ​​extermination. The Holocaust
Subtitle: “The Jew” as an abstraction

Section 9
Title: Post-war anti-Semitism
Subtitle: The “Islamization” of European anti-Jewish myths

Section 10
Title: Politics and Anti-Semitism

Section 11
Title: Church and Anti-Semitism

Section 12
Anti-Semitism in the media and social networking

Section 13
Review of the main topics

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.