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The Weiss-Livnat International MA Program in Holocaust Studies is a branch of the Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education - a center dedicated to perpetuating academic scholarship while also preserving Holocaust memory and awareness. Our MA program is the only graduate studies program of its kind in the world. With a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the Holocaust, we offer our students a wide range of courses in the disciplines of History, Anthropology, Psychology, Education, and the Arts taught by leading scholars in the field. In one year, our students attain the knowledge and skills to continue in academia or set out on a career path in Holocaust education or commemoration.
We believe the Holocaust should be taught from a multidisciplinary perspective and offer a range of courses in the fields of History, Anthropology, Psychology, Education, and the Arts.
In this semester’s course “Art in Extremis: Creative Resistance during the Holocaust” we surveyed the complex and varied responses artists had to their circumstances as victims and witnesses in exile and in hiding, in the camps and ghettos. We explored how art was used as both a means of documentation and as a way to communicate protest, despair or hope. Instead of writing a final paper, students curated their own digital art exhibitions, using objects, images, and text, reflecting on modes of presentation and installation as well as questions of ethics and audience. Some projects focused on motifs or themes (such as games or time), others on genres. Some are centered on art created by certain groups (such as women or children) while others study art created in certain localities (Terezin, Stuttgart or Jasenovac). They incorporated both “high” art and popular culture, coerced and clandestine work, by artists who survived as well as those who perished. The following are some of the students’ proposed exhibitions:
Our students have the chance to participate in exclusive internships in Israel, Europe, and the United States.
USA
PhD Candidate, Clark University
Cambodia
Educator, Documentation Center of Cambodia
Israel
Documentary Filmmaker
UK
Creator, Without the Footnote Podcast
University of Haifa
Address: 199 Aba Khoushy Ave.
Mount Carmel, Haifa
Israel 3498838
Tel: 972 (0)4 8240111
aweiner@univ.haifa.ac.il