Official observances started Monday evening with a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem as six survivors, including one of the few remaining survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, lit torches in memory of the six million people killed.
Belgian University Offers Course , to Study Taylor Swift Lyrics.
Belgium's Ghent University will debut a new course this fall called "Literature: Taylor's Version.".
The course was developed by assistant professor Elly McCausland, who also has a blog called "Swifterature," CNN reports. .
According to McCausland,
"Swift makes frequent allusions to
canonical literary texts in her music.".
Using Swift’s work as a springboard, we will explore, among other topics, literary feminism, ecocriticism, fan studies, and tropes such as the anti-hero. , Via course syllabus .
Swift’s enduring popularity stems, at least in part, from the heavily intertextual aspect of her work, and this course will dig deeper to explore its literary roots, Via course syllabus .
Even those who aren't fans of Taylor Swift are encouraged to take the course, CNN reports. .
The purpose of the course is to think critically about Swift as an artist and writer, and to use the popularity of her music as a ‘way in’ to a corpus of literature that may have shaped her work, Via course syllabus .
McCausland said that she'd been
considering Swift's lyrics for analysis for quite some time, but the release of 'Midnights'
last fall "really crystallized" the notion.
There’s a song on there called
‘The Great War,’ which uses the
First World War as an analogy for heartbreak… That made me think of Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Daddy,’ in which she uses the Holocaust to discuss her troubled relationship with her father. , Elly McCausland, via statement.
This appropriation of historical pain and war as a metaphor (for love and loss)— I started thinking about other literary parallels and that’s where the
course came from, Elly McCausland, via statement.
The course "is believed to be the
first of its kind in Europe," CNN reports
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A 99-year-old woman has been reunited with a schoolbook that belonged to her younger brother who was one of the 565,000 Hungarian Jews who died in the Holocaust.
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UNESCO Designates Jericho Ruins , as World Heritage Site.
The U.N. World Heritage Committee voted to list the ruins as a "World Heritage Site in Palestine" on Sept. 17, CNN reports. .
The Palestinian Authority Foreign Affairs Ministry praised the decision to acknowledge Jericho's "cultural, economic and political significance.".
The ministry also called the site evidence of
"10,000 years of human development," CNN reports.
The outstanding universal value
of the site qualifies it to be one
of the World Heritage sites, PA Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Rula Ma’ayah, via statement.
However, the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs is upset that Jericho is now a World Heritage Site.
It referred to the decision as "another sign of Palestinians’ cynical use of UNESCO and politicization of the organization.".
The site, located in the Israeli-occupied West Bank between the Jordan River and Jerusalem, dates "back to the modern Stone Age," CNN reports. .
The site, located in the Israeli-occupied West Bank between the Jordan River and Jerusalem, dates "back to the modern Stone Age," CNN reports. .
Jericho became the oldest walled
city on the planet in 2010
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Thousands took to the streets in Hungary's capital, including survivors and Righteous Among Nations award-winners, to pay tribute to Hungarian Jews killed in the Holocaust.
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