Class 3. 9/1 Interwar period
A Jewish family walking down a street. Kalisz, Poland, May 16, 1935.
Engel, The Holocaust, ch. 2, “The Jews,” 11–18.
Saul Friedländer, ch. 3, Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933–1939 (1998), “Redemptive Anti-Semitism Download Redemptive Anti-Semitism,” 73–95.
Jeffrey Shandler, ed. Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland Before the Holocaust, ch. 9, “G.S.,” 263–274. Download Jeffrey Shandler, ed. Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland Before the Holocaust, ch. 9, “G.S.,” 263–274.
What was the state of Jewish life in Germany and Poland before World War II? What is “redemptive antisemitism”? How does G.S. characterize her relations with non-Jews?