HIST 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Worship God, French Revolution, Jewish Diaspora
20 Oct 2016
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Read chapter 1 qnnd 2 of normans holocaust for next week. Holocasut used to be a taboo subject, courses like this are new ppl didn"t want talk about it, it was controversial and still is to this day. How did it happen and why causes heated debates to this day. Who are we to extract something useful from the mounds of human debris. The term holocause is even problematic puts meaning on senseless suffering its derived from greek word that means holy burnt offering and it dates back to the middle ages- the crusades- Idea of holocaust meant sense in medival times and made sense when anti semitism was an ofical church policy for the catholics- catholic was widespread. In 1950s cold war was begingin as well west fought the east through propaganda it was said couldn"t trust communists because they were atheists . at this time jews were considered respectable members of.
