Jewish Cultural Responses to the Holocaust

Education facts

Code: YIDC03

<p>Deepen your understanding of how the memory of the Holocaust has been processed within Jewish culture. Through films, literature, memorial sites, and trials, you’ll examine how different generations express and preserve this memory.</p><p>Through lectures and seminars, you will gain a deeper understanding of how the Holocaust has been processed within Jewish culture, both as a response to ongoing persecution and in the years that followed. The course offers an overview of how the memory of the Holocaust is expressed culturally in different parts of the world - Western Europe, Central Europe, the former Soviet Union, the United States and Israel.</p><p> You will learn how the Holocaust has been portrayed in film, literature, museums, and memorials. You also explore how the memory of the Holocaust has influenced younger generations. The course provides tools to understand how a collective trauma can live on through culture, storytelling, and memory work.</p>

Entry requirements

General requirements for university studies in Sweden

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Jewish Cultural Responses to the Holocaust

  Lund University

  Lund

  Start date: 31 August 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %