Jews in Modern Europe
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Past Events
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
From Culture to Culture: Nahum Glatzer, émigré Jewish scholar, disseminator of European philosophy, and architect of academic Jewish Studies
Judith Wechsler
- NEH Professor of Art History, Emerita, Tufts University
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, December 1, 2011
'They Came Like Gypsies': Jewish Property and the Slovenian Nation
Hannah Starman
- Research Associate, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
The Jews of Poland and Russia: Myths and Realities
Antony Polonsky
- Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Italian Jews from Emancipation to Racial Laws
Cristina Bettin
- Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Italian Culture, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The Obscenity of Objectivity : Post-Holocaust Antisemitism and the Invention-Discovery of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Dagmar Herzog
- Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar, Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Jewish-Russian Poets Bearing Witness to the Shoah
Maxim D. Shrayer
- Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Goldman Room, Busch Hall
Friday, April 15, 2011
The Art of Memory/the Memory of Art: Counter Monuments of the Holocaust and Other Genocides
Horst Hoheisel
- artist, independent museum curator
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Irène Némirovsky and the 'Jewish Question' in Interwar France
Susan Suleiman
- C.Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Time: 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Strategies of Recall: The Holocaust in Polish Documentary and Artistic Films after 1989
Tomasz Łysak
- Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw, Poland
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, December 2, 2010
At Home in Europe or Forever in Exile?: Diaspora Nationalism and European Jews
Simon Rabinovitch
- Professor, Boston University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Jewish and Muslim Identity Politics in France Since 1967: The Impact of Israel/Palestine, Multiculturalism, and Public Religion
Ethan Katz
- History Department, University of Cincinnati
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Balfour Declaration and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Jonathan Schneer
- Professor of History, Georgia Institute of Technology
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Jason Wittenberg
- Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Discrimination, Degradation, Defiance: Jewish Lawyers in Nazi Germany
Douglas Morris
- J.D., Ph.D.
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, May 6, 2010
French Nationalism and Jewish Identity in the Early Twentieth Century
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
A Drama of Faith and Family: Custody Disputes, Familialism and Ethnicity in Postwar France
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, March 4, 2010
What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution: Success and Sorrow
Gerhard Sonnert
- Research Associate in the Harvard College Observatory, Associate of the Harvard Physics Department;
Gerald Holton - Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of History of Science, Emeritus, Harvard University
Gerald Holton - Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of History of Science, Emeritus, Harvard University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Monday, December 7, 2009
Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Jewish Children's Lives in Early Postwar Poland, 1945-1950
Joanna Michlic
- Affiliate, Center for European Studies, Harvard
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The November 1938 'Kristallnacht' Pogrom in History and Memory
Alan Steinweiss
- Professor of History; Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Monday, November 30, 2009
On The Publication of Gertrude Himmelfarb's The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot
Adam Kirsch
- Contributing editor to Harvard Magazine, regular contributor to The New Yorker and The Times Literary Supplement
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Reflections on Early Holocaust Cinema: The Case of the Vanishing Jew
Stuart Liebman
- member of the Ph.D. Faculties of Art History and Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Private Life of a Noble Jewish Woman in Tsarist Russia: Gender in the Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova (1862-1952)
ChaeRan Freeze
- Associate Professor of East European Jewish History and Graduate Chair of Women\'s and Gender Studie, Brandeis University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Recent Research in Yiddish Travel Literature
Yuri Vedenyapin
- Preceptor in Yiddish, Harvard University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Jews, Catholics, and the Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism in the Age of the French Kulturkampf, 1870-1886
Vicki Caron
- Cornell University and currently fellow of Radcliffe Institute,
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
"An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Problems"
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Cosmopolitans in an Ethnonational Age? Jews and Austrians in the First Republic
Malachi Hacohen
- Associate Professor and Bass Fellow, History, Political Science and Religion, Duke University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Goldman Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, February 5, 2009
The Holocaust in German-Occupied Soviet Territory and the Response by Soviet Jewish Intellectuals
Joshua Rubenstein
- Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
A Historian in the Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
Samuel Kassow
- Professor of History, Trinity College
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Psychiatry and Prejudice: Perceptions of the Orient among European Jewish Immigr
Rakefet Zalashik
- Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Tsen Brider: A Russian-Jewish Folksong Becomes a Concentration Camp Requiem
Joshua Jacobson
- Professor of Music, Northeastern University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Cabot Room, Busch Hall