Jews in Modern Europe
Co-Chaired by Phyllis Albert & Alex Sagan


Upcoming Events

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Past Events
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Photo of Lisa Moses Leff
"The French Republican Roots of International Jewish Solidarity"
Lisa Moses Leff, Associate Professor of History, Southwestern University

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Cabot Room
Jews in Modern Europe Study Group, co-sponsored by the French Study Group
Contact: Phyllis Albert, phyllisalbert@jewishstudygroup.net

Monday, April 28, 2008
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"Dominican Haven: the Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-45"
Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York University

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Cabot Room
Co-sponsored by the Jews in Modern Europe Study Group & The German Study Group
Contact: Phyllis Albert, phyllisalbert@comcast.net

April 3, 2008:
Photo of Michael Berkowitz
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Visual Sources and the Holocaust: The Myth of Jewish Criminality"
Michael Berkowitz, Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College London

Co-sponsored by the German Study Group
February 14, 2008:
Photo of Atina Grossmann
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Entangled Histories and Lost Memories: Jews, Germans, and Allies in Occupied Germany"
Atina Grossmann, Professor of History, Cooper Union, New York

This talk is co-sponsored by the German Study Group.
December 3, 2007:
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine"

Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University

This talk is co-sponsored by the German Study Group.
December 10, 2007:
Laura Jockusch
2:15pm - 4:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Chronicling Catastrophe: Jewish Historical Commissions in Europe and the Beginnings of Holocaust Research from a Jewish Perspective, 1945-1950"

Laura Jockusch, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, University of Leipzig, Germany

November 27, 2007:
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust"
Gabriel Rosenfeld, Associate Professor of History, Fairfield University

Co-sponsored by the German Study Group
November 1, 2007:
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Jewish Children in Nazi-Occupied Poland: Early Post-war Recollections"
Joanna Michlic, Associate Professor of History and the Helene and Allen Apter Chair in Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

October 9, 2007:
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Rescued From the Holocaust, Exploited After 1945: Telling the Story of the ’Buchenwald Child ‘ in East, West and United Germany"
Professor William Niven, Professor of Contemporary German History in the History, Heritage and Geography Department, Nottingham; Trent University, England

Co-sponsored by the German Study Group
October 4, 2007:
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"The Arab/Israeli Conflict in France: Muslims/Jews and the Origins of Ethnonationalism"
Maud Mandel, Associate Professor, History and Judaic Studies, Brown University

Co-sponsored by Seminar on Islam in the West and the Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society
April 23, 2007:
4:15 - 6:00PM

"Against Tradition and Beyond the Folk: The Idea of Culture and the Transformation of Russian-Jewish Cultural Nationalism, 1900-1919"
Ken Moss, Assistant Professor, Felix Posen Chair of Modern Jewish History, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University

Cabot Room, Busch Hall
March 19, 2007:
4:15 - 6:00PM

"The Life of Jews in Poland Before the Holocaust"
Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, Director Emeritus, Harvard Hillel

Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

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December 6, 2006:
4:15 - 6:00PM

"Jews and War in Modern Europe: Patriotism or Internationalism?"
Derek Penslar, Professor of Jewish History, University of Toronto and Visiting Professor at Harvard

Cabot Room, Busch Hall
November 27, 2006:
4:15 - 6:00PM

"Anti-Semitic Violence in German and European History during the Long Nineteenth Century"
Helmut Walser Smith, Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Co-sponsored by German Study Group

Cabot Room, Busch Hall
November 14, 2006:
4:15 - 6:00PM

"Being Jewish in the New Germany"
Jeffrey Peck
Georgetown and Humboldt Universities
Co-sponsored by German Study Group

Cabot Room, Busch Hall
November 8, 2006:
4:15 - 6:00PM

"Changing Views of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Democratic Spain (1978-2006)"

A copy of this CES Working Paper is available at http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/publications/docs/pdfs/alonso.pdf

Carmen Lopez-Alonso
CES Visting Scholar
Co-Sponsored by the Iberian Study Group.

Cabot Room, Busch Hall
October 26, 2006:
4:15 - 6:00PM

"Girlhood, Identity, and Assimilation:
Jewish Rites of Passage in 19th-Century France"

Jennifer Sartori
Academic Specialist, Northeastern University

Garden Room, Busch Hall