TMS - Understanding the Holocaust
Professor David Engel (New York University)
14 lectures [30 minutes/lecture]
In Understanding the Holocaust, Professor David Engel of New York University examines the encounter between Germany’s Third Reich and the Jews of the twenty European countries that fell under Nazi domination between 1933 and 1945.
Eric Rabkin is a Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. As a teacher, Rabkin is especially known for his large, popular lecture courses on science fiction and fantasy, and for his many teaching innovations, including the development of the highly successful Practical English writing program for those who will use writing in their work lives, and for his work at all levels, including faculty training, in research and communication applications of computer technologies.
Soul and the city – Art, Literature and Urban Living
(8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 484
Taught by Arnold Weinstein
Brown University
Ph.D., Harvard University
"A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life." —Samuel Johnson
We spend our lives building in empty spaces. Out of nothing, we make something. We fashion jobs, relationships, structures, and meanings. Without these creations, we would live in a wasteland.
The Soul and the City: Art, Literature, and Urban Living is not a compendium of statistics on city life, a guidebook, or a historical look. This course focuses on complex artistic representations of city life from the 18th to the 20th century.
Brown University's Professor Weinstein (Ph.D., Harvard University) selects particular moments and cities to illustrate urban themes such as anonymity, orientation, and exchange. You visit St. Petersburg just before the Russian revolution, the industrial age in the novels of Charles Dickens, and the present global electronic era on the cinematic screen. Professor Weinstein serves as a literary theorist, cultural critic, and philosopher.
Portraits of humanity come through several great artists in a variety of mediums:
Painter Edvard Munch depicts the emptiness of urban living.
Poet Charles Baudelaire celebrates how crowds impact his imagination.
Author Daniel Defoe dramatizes the freedom the city offers people who want to change their identities.
TMS - Understanding the Holocaust
Soul and the city – Art, Literature and Urban Living
