6:00-9:00P     W     BH137

Topic:  The Intellectual Emigration from the Holocaust
A portion of the above section reserved for majors

Owing to the rise of European fascism in the 1930s, the center of
intellectual, cultural, and scientific gravity shifted decidedly from
Central Europe as a great many intellecutals and scholars were forced
to flee.  After important stops in places like Palestine, Turkey,
India, and China, most ended up in Britain and especially the United
States. We shall
be reading some of the major writing (scholarly and literary) on the
nature and consequences of this emigration and we shall see some of
the major films about it. As well, we shall explore some of the forced
emigrations since World War II.  Each student shall prepare a review
essay on a particular aspect of forced emigration that he/she finds
especially interesting.