The other, Hasidic People by Jerome Mintz, takes readers on a tour through New York's Hasidic community, from its internal rabbinical struggles to its strife with the black community in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York.

Using the Amish and Hasidim as case studies, Bronner's class will question the building of ethnic traditions in contemporary America; it will also explore the impact of such ethnic communities on tourism and gender.

The requirements for the course include short assignments (20 percent), a final essay examination (40 percent) and a final research paper on the folklife of an ethnic community (40 percent).

Folk and Myth 121 meets Mondays and Wednesdays (and some Fridays) at 10 a.m.

Tragedy on Film

As the search for Harvard's first-ever chair of Holocaust studies drags on, the field is being pursued with vigor this semester in the German department.

Drawing on Holocaust studies, film studies, German studies, history and literary criticism, German 160: "Reinventing Germany: Films and Filmmakers, 1945-95" will analyze how recent filmmakers have portrayed and conveyed the Third Reich, World War II and the Holocaust to audiences worldwide.

Visiting Professor of German Eric Rentschler, of the University of California at Irvine, has compiled a varied reading list featuring recent works such as Holo-caust scholar Saul Friedlander's Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death, dissecting the magic and myth that have shrouded recollections of Hitler in popular culture; Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective, analyzing President Reagan's 1985 controversial visit to a Holocaust cemetery; and Spielberg's Holocaust, a volume of essays analyzing the strengths and limitations of Schindler's List in bridging cinema and history.

Numerous films dealing with the Holocaust, including Schindler's List, The Producers and Our Hitler, will be shown.

German 160 meets Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1 p.m., with film screenings Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.

Eat it Up

For the first time in many years, Fair-bank Professor of Chinese Society James L. Watson's Foreign Cultures 62: "Chinese Family, Marriage and Kinship"-known belovedly among students as "Mating and Dating"-is not listed in the course catalog.

But students interested in how McDonald's has changed China-always one of Watson's favorite topics in FC 62-need not fear. In Anthropology 105: "Food and Culture," Watson tackles the field of culinary anthropology, examining food taboos and restrictions; fasting and abstinence; vegetarianism and "alternative consumption regimes;" etiquette and manners in eating; body image and the symbolism of human fat; and the invention and commodification of new foods.

Requirements for the course include section participation (15 percent), a midterm exam (20 percent), a final exam (35 percent) and a research paper (30 percent).

Suggested topics for the research paper include: "Spam as an Elite Food in Korea: The Social History of Military Cuisine;" "Territoriality in Fast Food Restaurants: Privacy and the Commodification of Space;" "We Don't Eat Clams at Home': Dietary Adventurism and the Life Course," and "Chicken Dinners and Smorgasbords: Church Life in the American Midwest."

Readings include Animal to Edible, which looks at the tension between carnivorism and discomfort with slaughter; Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, a look at how sugar has changed capitalism, industry, work habits and eating habits; and Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, edited by Watson.