All Consuming: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat
Meat is one of the most visible markers of Jewish distinctness and social separation. In his most recent book, John Efron argues that meat has played an especially important role […]
In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union
The short fiction collected in In the Shadow of the Holocaust recovers a range of compelling voices that had been scarcely known or translated. Jewish authors from Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, […]
Warsaw Testament – Samuel Kassow
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 […]
New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre – Olga Gershenson
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 […]
Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art – Sarah Phillips Casteel
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. […]
Disposable Humanity – Film Screening
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 […]
Seeing Like a Merchant: Jews and Greeks from Ottoman to Greek Rule – Paris Papamichos Chronakis
How did the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigate the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century? In this talk, Paris Papamichos Chronakis shows how the […]
Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City – Frances Tanzer
Frances Tanzer will discuss her new book, Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (University of Pennsylvania Press), which traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the […]