FASPE Seminary 2014 Schedule and Syllabus June 15-June 26

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1 FASPE Seminary 2014 Schedule and Syllabus June 15-June 26 Due to the travel schedule all readings should be completed in advance of program. General Background Reading: -Doris L. Bergen, War & Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (2 nd ed, 2009) -Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (1958; 1959 in English) -Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (1998 ed., Schocken Books) [Please read the narrative and six symposium responses of your choosing. If your own religious tradition is represented, please include at least one or two responses from your tradition in the six responses that you choose.] Saturday, June 14 7:00-9:00 Informal gathering for those in New York City at The Bailey Pub & Brasserie, 52 William Street, NYC (optional) Sunday, June 15 New York, Museum of Jewish Heritage 9:00-11:00 Session 1 (Classrooms 115/116 A/B): Breakfast and welcome from David Goldman and Thorin Tritter 11:00-12:30 Session 2 (Classroom A/B): Introducing Ourselves and Preparing for Our Time Together Reading: Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: Exorcizing Plato s Ghost, in his The Dignity of Difference (2002) (22 pages) 12:30-1:30 Lunch with Medical Fellows (Classroom A/B) 1:30-3:30 Session 3 (Classroom A/B): European History, Kevin P. Spicer, Catholics, in The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies, edited by Peter Hayes and John K. Roth (2011) (17 pages) -Robert P. Ericksen, Protestants in The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies, edited by Peter Hayes and John K. Roth (2011) (15 pages) 3:30-5:00 Self-guided tour of Museum s core exhibit 5:00-6:30 Session 4 (Classroom A/B): Perpetrators, Collaborators, Bystanders - Cardinal Bertram on the Boycott of Jewish Businesses, April 1, 1933, in The Third Reich and the Christian Churches, edited by Peter Matheson (1981) (1 page) - Declaration of the German Christians, December 1, 1933, in The Third Reich Sourcebook, edited by Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman (2013) (1 page) - Research Institute into Jewish Influence on German Church Life, 6 May 1939, in The Third Reich and the Christian Churches (1 page) -Letter from Ambassador Alexander Kirk and Broadcast Speech by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, November 1942 (archival documents) (3 pages) 6:30-7:15 Dinner in 2 nd floor café 7:30-9:00 Screening of Conspiracy (interdisciplinary) in Edmund Safra Hall (1 st floor)

2 2 Monday, June 16 New York 8:00-9:00 Breakfast in 2nd floor café, Museum of Jewish Heritage 9:00-10:30 Session 5 (Classroom C/D): Victims, Rescuers, Resisters -Bernhard Lichtenberg, Letter of Protest from Lichtenberg to Reich Physicians Leader Dr. Conti Against the Euthanasia Murders, August 26, 1941 (2 pages) -Margarete Sommer, Report on the Emigration of the Jews (Feb.1942) (4 pages) -Elisabeth Schmitz, On the Church s Responsibility to the Jews in Germany ( ) (4 pages) -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, An Account at the Turn of the Year , Christmas 1942, in Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Works, Volume 8, Letters and Papers from Prison (2009), edited by Christian Gremmels, et al. (16 pages) -Leo Baeck, Prayer Composed for All Jewish Communities in Germany for the Eve of the Day of Atonement, October 10, 1935, in Documents of the Holocaust (8 th edition, 1996), edited by Yitzhak Arad, et al. (2 pages) -Emanuel Ringelblum, Last Letter from Warsaw (March 1, 1944), in The Jew in the Modern World, edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz (3 rd edition, 2011) (3 pages) - Veseli, Vesel & Fatima & Refik, Hamid & Xhemal; Albania,, in Mordecai Paldiel, The Righteous Among the Nations (2007) (3 pages) - Family of Vesel and Fatime Veseli, and Family of Hamid and Xhemal Veseli, BESA: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II (2008), edited by Norman H. Gershman (4 pages) 10:30-12:00 Session 6 (Classroom A/B): Hearing from a Holocaust Survivor (Bronia Brandman) 12:00-1:00 Lunch with Medical Fellows and talk on logistics with Thorin (Classroom C/D) 1:00 Board bus for airport. Taking Lufthansa flight #401, departing JFK at 3:55 PM, arriving Frankfurt at 5:30 AM, connecting with Lufthansa flight #170, departing Frankfurt at 6:45 AM, arriving Berlin at 7:55 AM Tuesday, June 17 Berlin 7:55 Arrive Berlin 8:30 Meet bus at airport 9:30 Arrive Hotel Gat (81/82 Mauerstrasse ) for luggage drop/breakfast 10:30-1:00 Walking tour of Berlin (interdisciplinary) 1:00-2:00 Lunch at Theodor Tucher (Pariser Platz 6a) 2:00 Depart restaurant 2:15-4:00 Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (interdisciplinary) 4:30 Return to Hotel Gat 5:00-6:00 Dinner at La Via Del Muro (Mauerstraße 83 /84)

3 Wednesday, June 18 Berlin 3 8:00-9:30 Breakfast at hotel 9:45 Depart for Topography of Terror 10:00-11:00 Explore Topography of Terror 11:00 Depart for Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe 11:15-1:00 Session 7 (Memorial): Interpreting Difficult Religious Texts about Outsiders TBA from the Tanakh, the Christian New Testament, and the Quran 1:15-2:15 Lunch at Alt-Berliner Wirsthaus (Wilhelmstraße 77) 2:30-4:00 Session 8 (Memorial): Thinking about Brandenburg, Preparing for Wannsee, and Track 17 -Paul Braune, The Relocation of Residents of Healing and Care Facilities for the Sake of Economic Planning (July 1940) (18 pages) -Gerhard Ebeling, A Sermon for a Victim of Aktion T4 [July 17, 1940], in Preaching in Hitler s Shadow: Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich, edited by Dean G. Stroud (2013) (7 pages) -Clemens August von Galen, Sermon Preached August 3, 1941, in the Church of Saint Lambert s, Münster; reprinted in Heinrich Portmann, Cardinal von Galen (1957) (8 pages) - Letters of Hermann Sammler from Berlin [ ], from the Wiener Library and the Yad Vashem Web site (5 pages) -Dan Pagis, Written in Pencil in the Sealed Freightcar [first published in Hebrew in 1970 in the collection titled Gilgul], from the Yad Vashem Web site (1 page) 4:00- Free time. See list of potential sites to explore. Dinner on your own [ 20/$25] Thursday, June 19 Berlin 8:00-9:00 Breakfast at hotel 10:00 Bus departs for Track 17 11:00 Visit to the Deportation Memorial Track 17 (Grunewald Rampe) (interdisciplinary) 11:45 Depart for the House of the Wannsee Conference 12:15-1:00 Introduction to Wannsee with Eike Stengen 1:00-1:45 Lunch at Wannsee 1:45-3:15 Session 9 (Wannsee): Workshop with Eike Stengen Reading: Protocol of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942, translated and reprinted in Yitzhak Arad, et al., eds., Documents on the Holocaust, edited by Yitzhak Arad, et al., (8th ed., 1996) (12 pages) 3:15-4:00 Self-guided time 4:00-5:30 Session 10 (Wannsee): Reports from Seminarians on the Responses of Their Own Religious Traditions to the Jewish Holocaust: Part 1 5:45 Depart Wannsee 6:45 Return to hotel 7:00 Dinner at Trattoria Lungomare (Krausenstraße 11)

4 Friday, June 20 Krakow 4 7:15 Board bus for airport. Take Lufthansa flight #179, departing Berlin at 9:15 AM, arriving Frankfurt at 10:30 AM; connecting to Lufthansa flight #1366, departing Frankfurt at 12:20 PM, arriving Krakow at 1:50 PM. Lunch at Frankfurt airport on your own [ 12/$15] 2:30 Board bus at Krakow airport 3:30 Check in at Hotel Campanile for luggage drop (ul. Św. Tomasza 34) 3:45-5:30 Walking tour introduction to Krakow with Katarzyna Suszkiewicz, Center for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University 5:30- Free evening. For those interested there is a communal dinner at the Jewish Community Center (ul. Miodowa 24) at 8:30 PM. Otherwise, dinner on your own [45 PLN/$15]. We strongly recommend participation in the communal dinner. There are also two Jewish services prior to the communal dinner that could be of interest: an Orthodox service at the Kupa Synagogue (ul. Miodowa 27) 7:30-8:30 PM; and a Reform Jewish service at the Galicia Jewish Museum (ul. Dajwór 18) 7:00-8:30 PM Saturday, June 21 Krakow 7:30-9:00 Breakfast at hotel 9:00-1:00 Morning free. Lunch on your own [30 PLN/$10] 1:00-3:00 Session 11 (Collegium Maius/ul. Jagiellońska 15): Taking a Religious and Ethical Stance in the Midst of Chaos Reading: Ephraim Oshry, excerpts from his Responsa from the Holocaust ( ; 1983) (18 pages) 3:30-5:30 Session 12 (Collegium Maius/ul. Jagiellońska 15): Care at the End of Life (interdisciplinary) Oregon, Death with Dignity Act (1994) (12 pages) Oregon s Death with Dignity Act (released January 28, 2014) (7 pages) Case studies involving physicians and chaplains 7:30 Dinner at Morskie Oko (Plac Szczepański 8) Sunday, June 22 Krakow/Oświęcim 7:30-8:45 Breakfast at hotel 8:45-10:45 Morning free 11:00 Board bus for Oświęcim 12:15-1:15 Lunch at Hotel Galicja 1:30 Depart for Auschwitz Jewish Center 1:45-2:45 Guided tour of the Auschwitz Jewish Center 2:45 Board bus for Auschwitz I 3:00-6:00 Guided tour of Auschwitz I 6:00 Board bus for Hotel Galicja 7:00-8:00 Dinner at Hotel Galicja 8:30-9:00 Session 13 (Hotel): Reflection Session

5 Monday, June 23 Oświęcim 5 8:00-8:55 Breakfast at hotel 9:00 Board bus for Auschwitz-Birkenau 9:30-12:30 Tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau 12:45 Board bus for Center for Dialogue and Prayer 1:00-2:00 Lunch at Center for Dialogue and Prayer 2:00-3:45 Session 14 (Center for Dialogue and Prayer): Believing at the Edge of the Abyss Reading: Melissa Raphael, The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust (2003) (7 pages) 4:00-6:00 Optional time at Auschwitz I or Auschwitz II Birkenau 6:00 Bus pick up at Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II Birkenau to hotel 7:30 Outdoor dinner at Hotel Galicja Tuesday, June 24 Oświęcim/Krakow 7:30-8:45 Breakfast at hotel 9:00-10:45 Session 15 (Hotel): Seminarians Reports on the Responses of Their Own Religious Traditions to the Jewish Holocaust: Part 2 10:45-11:00 Check out of rooms\leave bags in lobby 11:00-12:55 Session 16 (Hotel): Prophetic Witness Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail (1963), reprinted in his Why We Can t Wait (1964) (14 pages) Julius von Jan, O Land, O Land: Hear the Word of the Lord, November 16, 1938, in Preaching in Hitler s Shadow: Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich (2013), edited by Dean G. Stroud 1:00-2:00 Lunch at hotel 2:15 Board bus for Krakow 3:45 Check into Hotel Campanile (ul. Św. Tomasza 34) 4:00- Free time. Dinner on your own [45 PLN/$15] Wednesday, June 25 Krakow 7:30-9:00 Breakfast at hotel 9:00 Depart hotel for seminar rooms 9:30-11:15 Session 17 (Collegium Maius/Jagiellońska 15): Forgiveness and The Sunflower Reading: Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower 11:15-11:30 Break 11:30-1:00 Session 18 (Collegium Maius/Jagiellońska 15): Perpetrators, Collaborators, Etc., Debriefing, Thinking about the Future 1:00-6:30 Free time in Krakow. Lunch on your own [30 PLN/$10] 6:30 Depart for dinner 7:00-9:00 Final dinner at Kawaleria (Gołębia 4)

6 Thursday, June 26 Krakow/New York 6 4:15 Wake-up 4:45 Board bus for airport. Take Lufthansa flight #1371, departing Krakow at 6:35 AM, arriving Frankfurt at 8:15 AM; connecting to Lufthansa flight #400, departing Frankfurt at 10:35 AM, arriving JFK at 1:00. 1:45 Bus departs for Penn Station