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SUMMARY:EVENT POSTPONED: Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in  Literature and Art - Sarah Phillips Casteel
DESCRIPTION:The event\, Black Lives under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art with Sarah Phillips Casteel (Carleton University)\, has been postponed. A new date will be announced once it is finalized. \nWe apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. Please stay tuned for further updates. \n  \nIn a little-known chapter of World War II\, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization\, forced sterilization\, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration\, Black writers and visual artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the Third Reich. Their works of memoir\, poetry\, fiction\, painting and photomontage illuminate both the relationship between creativity and wartime survival and the role of art in the formation of collective memory. Probing the boundaries of Holocaust memory and representation\, this talk draws attention to a largely unrecognized artistic corpus that challenges the erasure of Black wartime history. \nSarah Phillips Casteel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor of English at Carleton University. She has written and co-edited five books\, the most recent of which is Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art (Columbia University Press\, 2024). She has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Vienna and Potsdam and visiting fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg. The recipient of a Canadian Jewish Literary Award and a Polanyi Prize\, she is a member of the Academic Council of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University. \n \nBlack Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art \nSarah Phillips Casteel (Carleton University) \nIn conversation with Ben Ratskoff (Occidental College) \nIntroduction by/Moderated by Todd Presner (UCLA) \nMichael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies \n 
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/black-lives-under-nazism-making-history-visible-in-literature-and-art-sarah-phillips-casteel/
CATEGORIES:Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies
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SUMMARY:Saving our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust - Rachel Deblinger
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on previously unexamined archives and postwar cultural materials\, Saving Our Survivors explores how American Jews constructed meaning out of devastation—and how humanitarian aid became intertwined with public memory. The book uncovers how American Jewish communities first came to learn about and respond to the Holocaust through communal campaigns\, radio broadcasts\, speeches\, short films\, and urgent calls to action. Rachel Deblinger highlights the messy\, diffuse\, and contested nature of memory construction in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust and raises larger questions about how historical tragedies are narrated in moments of crisis. \nRachel Deblinger is the author of Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews learned about the Holocaust (2025\, Indiana University Press). Her research focuses on Holocaust memory in America\, media technology\, and the intersection of philanthropy and representation. Deblinger is also the Director of the Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) at the UCLA Library\, a granting program that funds the digitization and preservation of at-risk cultural heritage materials from around the world. MEAP grants facilitate archival documentation and open access to diverse global collections. \n \nTuesday\, November 18\, 2025 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM  \nSaving our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust \nRachel Deblinger (UCLA) \nThe 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies\nThe Alan D. Leve Program for Public History \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/rachel-deblinger/
CATEGORIES:1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies,Alan D. Leve Program for Public History
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SUMMARY:Webs of Life: Domestic Jewish Worlds in Early Modern Venice - Federica Francesconi
DESCRIPTION:This lecture explores domestic life in the Venetian ghetto as both a site of physical segregation\, housing scarcity\, and oppression\, and a space of cultural negotiation and transformation. Drawing on unpublished archival sources\, surviving material culture\, and the built environment\, it traces how Venetian Jews actively shaped their living spaces through engagement with objects\, furnishings\, and architectural features. From the central portego (the central space in Venetian houses) to repurposed Islamic carpets and gilt leather panels\, the home emerged as a site of transculturation where Jewish\, Islamic\, and Renaissance aesthetics intersected. These material choices reveal not only practical adaptation but also enduring ties to memory\, mobility\, and diasporic identity. By examining the interplay of people\, objects\, and spaces\, the lecture foregrounds the Jewish home in the ghetto as a dynamic meshwork—extending both vertically and horizontally\, and connecting domestic life to the broader urban fabric\, natural surroundings\, and the wider Mediterranean world. \nFederica Francesconi is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University at Albany\, SUNY. Her research and publications focus on the social\, religious\, and cultural dimensions of early modern Jewish life in Italy\, with particular attention to the politics and dynamics of the ghetto. She has held fellowships in Europe\, Israel\, and the United States. Her recent book\, Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena\, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2021)\, won the 2022 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize from the American Historical Association and was the finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards’ JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material. She is currently working on a new monograph\, The Jewish Home in Early Modern Venice: Cosmopolitan Intimacy\, Global Networks\, and Diasporic Material Culture\, which examines the Jewish home in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice as a multi-religious and multi-ethnic nexus of individuals\, communities\, and objects in motion. This project has been supported by the Gladys Krieble Delmas\, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture\, and I Tatti\, The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence. \nTuesday\, October 28\, 2025 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nWebs of Life: Domestic Jewish Worlds in Early Modern Venice \nFederica Francesconi (University at Albany)\nModerator: Stefania Tutino (UCLA)\nViterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/federica-francesconi2025/
CATEGORIES:Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies
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SUMMARY:The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen: Dybbuks\, Demons and Haunted Jewish Pasts - Rebecca Margolis
DESCRIPTION:The Yiddish language is often treated as humorous or nostalgic in television and in movies. As an ancestral language associated with trauma and dispossession\, Yiddish on screen additionally reconstructs haunted and mystical elements of the Jewish experience. The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen examines how Yiddish is used to reimagine Jewish lore and tells new stories of migration and dislocation where the supernatural looms over the narrative. The book talk considers the transformation of the figure of the dybbuk—a soul of the dead possessing the living—from folklore to 1930s Polish Yiddish cinema and on to global contemporary media; spoken Yiddish as a mystical cypher within the horror genre; and how immigrant or pre-immigrant pasts informs the present in prologues to comedy film and television such as A Serious Man. \nProfessor Rebecca (Rivke) Margolis is the Pratt Foundation Chair of Jewish Civilisation at Monash University\, Melbourne. Her research explores Yiddish cultural production across the past century\, including literature\, theatre\, film\, and television. She is the author of The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen: Dybbuks\, Demons and a Haunted Jewish Past; Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission; Jewish Roots\, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Culture in Montreal\, 1905-1945; and Basic Yiddish: A Grammar and Workbook. \n \nTuesday\, October 21\, 2025 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nThe Yiddish Supernatural on Screen: Dybbuks\, Demons and Haunted Jewish Pasts \nRebecca Margolis (Monash University)\nModerator: Todd Presner (UCLA) \nMichael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/rebecca-margolis-2025/
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