An instructor’s reading list of primary documents and scholarly journal articles, and at least one monograph or collection of essays will be assigned. Additional resources, including works of fiction, autobiographies, and films may be assigned. Additional reading lists and links to specific digital resources may be provided online or in the instructor’s course outline.
Students will develop reading lists of primary and secondary literature, annotated bibliographies, and other resource lists on their chosen topic or theme as part of the research project, in consultation with the instructor.
Examples of monographs, collections of essays, and autobiographies include:
Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Toronto: Penguin Books, 2006. [first published in 1963]
Benz, Wolfgang. A Concise History of the Third Reich. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Bergen, Doris War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.
Bernard-Donals, Michael. An Introduction to Holocaust Studies. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Black, Jeremy. The Holocaust and Memory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.
Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: Harper Perennial, 2017. [first published in 1993]
Browning, Christopher R. , Peter Hayes and Raul Hilberg. German Railroads, Jewish Souls: The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy and the Final Solution. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020.
Engel, David. The Holocaust: The Third Reich and the Jews. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in History and Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Kaplan, Marion. Between Dignity and Despair. Jewish Life in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Kenez, Peter. The Coming of the Holocaust. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Klemperer, Victor. The Klemperer Diaries 1933-1945. London: Orion Publishing, 2000.
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity. Toronto: Simon and Shuster, 1996.
Magilow, Daniel H., and Lisa Silverman. Holocaust Representations in History: An Introduction. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
Mintz, Alan. Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
Rothberg, Michael. Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Smith, Helmut Walser. The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town. New York: Norton, 2003.
Snyder, Timothy. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2015.
Spiegelman, Art. Maus. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991.
Stone, Dan, ed. The Historiography of the Holocaust. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Tinberg, Howard, and Ronald Weisberger. Teaching, Learning, and the Holocaust: An Integrative Approach. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. [first published in 1960]
Wieviorka, Annette. The Era of the Witness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006.