History and Religion of Second Temple Judaism -- The Jewish Child, from the Bible to the Holocaust (2023 Boccaccini), course

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History and Religion of Second Temple Judaism -- The Jewish Child, from the Bible to the Holocaust (Winter 2023) is a course offered by Prof. Gabriele Boccaccini at the University of Michigan

Syllabus

Part I - The Jewish Child over the Century: From the Bible to the Emancipation

  • 2. Tue Jan 10, 2023 -- The Life of Children is Precious to God. The prohibition of child sacrifices (The Binding of Isaac), Sacrifice and priestly dedication as alternatives to child sacrifice.
  • 4. Tue Jan 17, 2023 -- Conflicts among Siblings (II): Joseph and his brothers. Joseph and Aseneth.
  • 6. Tue Jan 24, 2023 -- The gender gap: The childhood of boys and girls in ancient Judaism. See Children
  • 7. Thu Jan 26, 2023 -- The Persian Persian: The Diaspora Educated Child at the court (Tobias - Daniel - Esther)
  • 10. Tue Feb 7, 2023 -- Living in the diaspora: Exposition of children, idolatry, education of children. Sexual Immorality.

See Roman Children, Education, and Timekeeping

  • 11. Thu Feb 9, 2023 -- The Christian and the Rabbinic Child: Different Emphasis in Education.

See How Education Kept Judaism Alive -- Childhood in the Middle Ages -- How Did Education Work in the Middle Ages?

  • 12. Tue Feb 14, 2023 -- The Emancipation and the Empowerment of the Jewish Child.

See The Cruel Life of Children During the Industrial Revolution

- These photos ended child labor in the US


Student's presentations

WARNING -- Movies reflect the values, the knowledges and the prejudices of the time in which they were made. We analyze them critically as a product of their own age, in order to see how the experience of children in the Holocaust has been described. They are all based on actual historical events.

13. Thu Feb 16, 2023 -- Students' Presentations (I)

  • All the Loved Ones (1997) {LOWRY}
  • Europa, Europa (1990) {YAP}
  • Le voyage de Fanny (2016) {LI}
  • Jonah who lived in the whale / Look to the sky (1990) {WALLACE}

14. Tue Feb 21, 2023 -- Students' Presentations (II)

  • Run Boy Run (2013) {HERTZBERG}
  • La Rafle (2010) {ZHU}
  • Monsieur Batignole (2002) {SBISA}
  • Fateless (2005) {CHANG}
  • Lena: My 100 Children (1987) {ANDERSON}

15. Thu Feb 23, 2023 -- Students' Presentations (III)

  • My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021) {HASHMI}
  • The Crossing (2021) {SCHWARTZ}
  • Au revoir, les enfants (1987) {SMIRNOVA}
  • A Bag of Marbles (2017) {FAWAZ}

Mid-Term Paper

  • Pick-Up 3 movies: the one you presented and 2 of your choice.
  • Write a 4-5-page essay, describing the challenges the children described in the movie had to face and comparing their different situations.
  • Answer the following two questions: How did their experience as children differ from that of adults? Which challenges and hardships did children specifically have to endure as children?

Part II -- The Jewish Child Experience in the Twentieth Century and the Holocaust

  • 19. Thu Mar 16, 2023 -- Children in Hiding or on the run (Families, Boarding Schools, Orphanages, street children)
  • 20. Tue Mar 21, 2023 -- Children in "family" camps: Bergen-Belsen (Trains)
  • 22. Thu Mar 28, 2023 -- Children in concentration camps: Auschwitz
  • 23. Thu Mar 30, 2023 -- Children in concentration camps: Buchenwald

<Tue April 4, 2023 - No class, Passover>

  • 25. Tue Apr 11, 2023 -- The Memory of Holocaust Children (Diaries, Memoirs, Movies, Documentaries). The Post-Holocaust Experience of the Jewish Child.
  • 26. Thu Apr 13, 2023 -- Student presentations of their papers.


  • 27. Tue Apr 18, 2023 -- Wrap-Up Session

Final Paper

The Final paper should be 9-12 pages long.

3 pages will be devoted to the analysis of the firs book (about a boy) and 3 pages to the analysis of the second book (about a girl), dealing with general questions about the experiences of the two children (what they have in common, what is different, how much the difference of gender or age or nationality influenced their experiences, etc. etc.).

In the rest of paper you should focus on a topic of your interest, suggested by the experience of the two children.You are expected to learn more about the protagonists of your books and the topics of your interest through the reading of additional sources (please, add the bibliography at the end of your paper).

Grades will be based on the clarity and historical accuracy of the presentation as well as on the amount of time and research that you have devoted to your paper.

Be prepared to give a brief description of your books in class on April 13.

Boys' Memories

1. {YES-Shapiro} Jack Gruener (b.1927). Prisoner B-3087 / by Alan Gratz. New York : Scholastic Press, 2013 (ANDERSON)

2. {YES-Children's Collection} Jack Mandelbaum (b.1927). Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps, by Andrea Warren (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001). (CHANG)

3. {YES-Hatcher} Felix Weinberg (b.1928). Boy 30529 : a memoir London : Verso, 2013. (FAWAZ)

4. {YES-Shapiro} Elie Wiesel (b.1928). The Night (1960). {HASHMI}

5. {YES-Hatcher} Thomas Geve (b.1929). Youth in Chains (1958). {HERTZBERG}

6. {YES-Children's Collection} Leon Leyson (b.1929). The boy on the wooden box New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2013. {LI}

7. @ {YES-Hatcher} Michael Kraus (b.1930). Drawing the Holocaust : a teenager's memory of Terezín, Birkenau, and Mauthausen / Michael Kraus ; translated by Paul Wilson. {LOWRY}

8. {YES-Hatcher} Yehuda Nir (b.1930). The lost childhood : a memoir (San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989). {SBISA}

9. {YES-Hatcher} Jack Terry (b.1930). Jakub's World : A Boy's Story of Loss and Survival in the Holocaust / Alicia Nitecki and Jack Terry ; afterword by Jörg Skriebeleit. {SCHWARTZ}

10. {YES-Hatcher} Jack Kuper (b.1932). Child of the Holocaust (Toronto, Routledge & K. Paul, 1967). {SMIRNOVA}

11. @ {YES-Hatcher} Shalom Eilati (b.1933). Crossing the River (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2008. {WALLACE}

12. {YES-Hatcher} Thomas Buergenthal (b.1934). A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy (2007). {YAP}

13. @ {YES-Hatcher} Yisrael Meir Lau (b.1937)]]. Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last (New York: Sterling Pub.: In conjunction with OU Press, 2011). {ZHU}

Girls' Memoirs

10. {YES-Buhr} Sara Zyskind (b.1927), Stolen Years (1981) {SMIRNOVA}

11. @ {YES-Hatcher} Estelle Laughlin (b.1929). Transcending Darkness: A Girl's journey out of the Holocaust. {WALLACE}

12. {YES-Hatcher} Judith Jaegermann (b. 1929). My childhood in the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Mazo, 2004). {YAP}

13. {YES-Hatcher} Halina Birenbaum (b.1929). Hope is the last to die New York: Distributed by Twayne Publishers, 1971. {ZHU}

1. {YES-Children's Collection} Livia Bitton-Jackson (b.1931). Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust (New York: Times Books, 1980). (ANDERSON)

2. {YES-Hatcher} Francine Christophe (b.1933). From a world apart: a little girl in the concentration camps (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2000) (CHANG)

3. {YES-Hatcher} Miriam Winter (b.1933). Trains: a memoir of a hidden childhood during and after World War II (Jackson, Mich. : Kelton Press, 1997). (FAWAZ)

4. {YES-Hatcher} Naomi Samson (b.1933). Hide: A child's view of the Holocaust. {HASHMI}

5. {YES-Hatcher} Eva Mozes Kor (b.1934). Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz (Terre Haute, IN: Tanglewood Pub., 2009). {HERTZBERG}

6. {YES-Hatcher} Marion Blumenthal Lazan (b.1934). Four perfect pebbles : a Holocaust story (New York : Greenwillow Books, 1996). {LI}

7. @ {YES-Hatcher} Krystyna Chiger (b.1935). The girl in the green sweater : a life in Holocaust's shadow. {LOWRY}

8. {YES-Children's Collection} Nelly S. Toll (b.1935). Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood during World War Two (New York: Dial Books, 1993). {SBISA}

9. {YES-Buhr} Frida Weinstein (b.1936) A Hidden Childhood, 1942-1945 (New York : Hill and Wang, 1985). {SCHWARTZ}

The Holocaust Children in Movies

Grading

The Seminary format requires regular attendance (30% of your grade).

Mid-term paper and presentation (30% of your grade), based on three movies of your choice.

Final paper and presentation (40% of your grade), based on a topic of your choice (approved by the Instructor).

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