{"id":4852,"date":"2011-06-15T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2012-03-31T18:14:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T22:14:28","slug":"comparative-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/comparative-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"COMPARATIVE GENOCIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gratz College<\/strong><\/span> in Philadelphia offers an online course called Comparative Genocide.<\/p>\n

The teacher, Sean Martin, lives in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

I said to Sean, “I think Don DeLillo wrote about Hitler Studies in a novel, but that was a novel<\/em>.\u00a0 Comparative Genocide, is it real?”<\/p>\n

“Gratz named the course,” Sean said. “I didn’t.\u00a0 It’s a real course.”<\/p>\n

Sean also<\/strong><\/span> teaches classes on ethnicity and the Holocaust in Cleveland.\u00a0 He speaks Yiddish and Polish, and has a PhD.<\/p>\n

Sean, from Weirton, West Virginia, is of Italian and Appalachian descent. (There is also a Yiddish scholar from Japan.)<\/p>\n

\"comparative-genocide-4_14_11-sean-martin-teaches-this\"I said to Sean, “You’re interested in everything you’re not, is that it?”<\/p>\n

“Exactly,” he said.<\/p>\n

“In the Comparative <\/strong><\/span> Genocide class, does everybody try to top the Jews’ story? ” I said.\u00a0 “The Jews are the gold standard?”<\/p>\n

“There’s some of that going on,” Sean said.\u00a0 “But that’s not the intent.\u00a0 Let me repeat, I didn’t pick the name of the course.\u00a0 Gratz has got to change that.”<\/p>\n

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Here’s an original Klezmer Guy movie,\u00a0 “Nine Days to Die.”\u00a0\u00a0 It’s funny.\u00a0\u00a0 My “bro” — Stuart — has followed me my whole life.\u00a0 Or I’ve followed him.<\/span><\/p>\n