Professor Theo Theoharis returns in the spring with a timely and insightful lecture series on some of the literature of the Holocaust.
The class will run for four Wednesdays, starting on March 19 and ending on April 9. Participants are required to register on our calendar.
The class is titled Reading and Writing the Holocaust.
Jan. 27 marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi Concentration Camp on Jan. 27, 1945. During that 40 year interval, historians, dramatists, and fiction writers have been bearing witness to the slaughter of six million Jews carried out by Nazi Germany during World War II, a systematic extermination that eventually came to be known as “The Holocaust.” In this series, we will discuss how the biblical term “Holocaust” became the name of this ethnic cleansing project, and we will read four works responding to the murders and their aftermath.
We will be reading:
“Night” by Elie Wiesel
“The Deputy” by Rolf Hochhuth
“The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick
“The Reader” by Bernard Schlink
The books are available at the Public Services Desk at the Main Library.
Professor Theoharis is a faculty member in the Comparative Literature department at Harvard College and has led many classes and discussions here at the Peabody Library.
