Landscapes of Print: Jews, Arabs, and Judeo-Arabic in Colonial North Africa – Noam Sienna
Arabness and Jewishness are sometimes understood to be identities at odds, or even mutually exclusive, but there are many contexts in which they have overlapped. This talk explores one such time and place: the attempt in nineteenth-century North Africa to create a modern “Arab Jewish” or “Judeo-Arabic” reading public. Dr. Sienna will investigate the development […]
Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust – Robin Judd
Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jews and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they […]
Final Verdict: The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century – Tobias Buck
On 17 October 2019, in Hamburg’s imposing criminal justice building, a trial laden with extraordinary historical weight begins to unfold. Bruno Dey stands accused of being involved in a crime committed over seven decades ago: the murder of at least 5,230 inmates at Stutthof, the Nazi concentration camp in present-day Poland. Only seventeen at the […]
