26999		7:00-9:00	T			SHORE
A portion of the above section reserved for majors
Above section COAS intensive writing section
Above section open to undergraduates only

This seminar will explore the painful and complex history of Polish-
Jewish relations from Poland's "regaining of independence" in 1918
through the present day, particularly in the light of the enormous
discussion surrounding Jan Gross's recently-published book Neighbors:
The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland.  While
the course will be organized chronologically, discussions will be
more focused thematically. Topics will include assimilation and its
discontents; anti-semitism and the Polish Right; cosmopolitanism and
the "non-Jewish Jew;" Polish-Jewish relations during the Nazi
occupation; and the legacy of so-called "zydokomuna," a virtually
untranslatable Polish term referring to communism as a kind of Jewish-
Bolshevik conspiracy.  Readings will include historical analyses as
well as newspaper polemics, poems, short stories and memoirs.