On Thursday, April 21 at 4 p.m in the Alumni Lounges (SC156), the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies invites you to listen to Dr. Kerry Wallach of Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, argue that there was in fact a pronounced desire for visibility among Jews in Weimar Germany, and that gender played a central role in decisions about displaying Jewishness. Instead of “passing” as non-Jews or overtly displaying Jewishness at all times, many Jews inhabited a state of ambiguity in public, but adopted signifiers of Jewishness such as badges or hairstyles that became perceptibly recognized as Jewish to certain observers.
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