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SUMMARY:New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema\, Global Genre - Olga Gershenson
DESCRIPTION:Before 2010\, there were no Israeli horror films. The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by young Israeli filmmakers. New Israeli Horror is the first book to tell their story and analyze their films\, from inception to reception. What triggered this sudden development? Why did Israeli filmmakers turn to horror? How do their films portray Israel? What kind of horror scenarios do they depict and how? This presentation will grapple with these questions\, which are particularly poignant now\, in light of the attack on October 7 and the ensuing wars\, which pitted the real-life horrors against the fictional ones. \nOlga Gershenson is Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and of Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A multi-disciplinary scholar\, her interests lie at the intersection of culture\, history\, and film. She is the author of New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema\, Global Genre (2024)\, The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe (2013)\, Gesher: Russian Theater in Israel (2005)\, as well as editor of Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (2009). She is currently working on a volume titled The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Film. \n \nBook Website \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/new-israeli-horror-local-cinema-global-genre-olga-gershenson/
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SUMMARY:Warsaw Testament - Samuel Kassow
DESCRIPTION:Until recently\, very few people knew about Rokhl Auerbach\, a remarkable woman who survived the Holocaust and then dedicated her life to preserving the memories of its victims. Professor Samuel D. Kassow will discuss Auerbach’s memoir Warsaw Testament\, which paints a vivid portrait of that city’s prewar Yiddish literary and artistic community atruction at the hands of the Nazis. This book received a National Jewish Book Award in the cat­e­go­ry of Holo­caust Mem­oir. \nSamuel Kassow\, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College\, holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been been a visiting professor at many institutions and was on the team of scholars that planned the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Among his books is Who will Write our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Ghetto Archive (Indiana\, 2007)\, which received the Orbis Prize of the AAASS and which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. It has been translated into eight languages. His translation of Rachel Auerbach’s Warsaw Testament\, published by the White Goat Press\, received a National Jewish Book Award in March 2025. A child of Holocaust survivors\, Professor Kassow spent his earliest years in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany. \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/warsaw-testament-samuel-kassow/
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CATEGORIES:Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies
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SUMMARY:Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art - Sarah Phillips Casteel
DESCRIPTION:In 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. \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/sarah-phillips-casteel-2/
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CATEGORIES:Sady and Ludwig Kahn Program in German Jewish Studies
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SUMMARY:Disposable Humanity - Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Through decades of research and powerful interviews\, the Mitchell family—a team of disability studies scholars and filmmakers—investigates the Nazi Aktion T4 program\, the first Nazi mass killing initiative and precursor to the Holocaust. Featuring conversations with memorial directors\, disabled people\, and descendants of victims\, Disposable Humanity brings to light the forgotten truth that disabled people were the first to be targeted by the Third Reich. This revelatory documentary exposes how this chapter has been neglected in public memory and calls for its rightful place in Holocaust history. \nSunday\, March 22\, 2026 • James Bridges Theater\, UCLA • 2 PM \nComplimentary Film Screening \nDisposable Humanity \nThe Barbara Roisman Cooper and Martin Cooper Jewish Film Series \nconversation with\nCameron S. Mitchell (Director)\, David Mitchell (Writer)\, \nJared McBride (UCLA)\, and Michael Rothberg (UCLA) after the screening \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/disposable-humanity-film-screening/
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CATEGORIES:The Barbara Roisman Cooper and Martin Cooper Jewish Film Series
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