Dr. Douglas Morris, Esq., Ph.D., a legal historian and a criminal defense attorney for indigent clients in New York City., will discuss his recently published book, Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel […]
Dr. Lisa Williams, Ph.D., Professor of Literature at Ramapo College, will discuss her recently published book, Forget Russia (Tailwinds Press, 2020) with Dr. Santamaría Laorden, Associate Professor of Spanish at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Gross Center Director, Dr. Michael A. Riff will act as moderator. The program will be delivered virtually via Zoom on […]
The Gross Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, the Friends of the River Edge Library and the River Edge Cultural Center invite you to a presentation in commemoration of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in which Jerry Zaks, a son of survivors from Poland, will relate a deeply personal story about the human experience of the Holocaust. It starts in 1937, when his […]
Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK) will be in conversation with Kerry Wallach (Gettysburg College, PA) about the work and life of the German Jewish artist, Charlotte Salomon. Gross Center Director, Dr. Michael A. Riff will act as moderator. The program will be delivered virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, April 20 at 2 p.m. It […]
0n October 6 at 7 P.M., E.T., in conversation with Ramapo College librarian Christina Connor and Gross Center Director Michael A. Riff, Dr. Wendy Lower will share the gripping story of the photograph she discovered at the U.S. Holocaust Museum taken at the moment of the horrific murder of Jewish woman by a Ukrainian collaborator […]
On October 20th at 4 PM, ET, Zohar Segev, professor of History at the University Haifa in Israel, will offer a new understanding of the Allied decision of whether or not to bomb Auschwitz Concentration Camp. In conversation with Gross Center Director Michael A. Riff, Segev will present new research into archival documents related to the work […]
On November 10 at 7 P.M., E.T. the Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will host Jeffrey Sussman who will discuss his new book, Holocaust Fighters: Boxers, Resisters, and Avengers (Rowan&Littlefield, Oct. 2021) that tells riveting stories of victims who fought back against the Nazis. The lives of five boxers who were forced to fight for […]
On February 2 at 7 PM, ET, Avraham Groll, executive director of JewishGen-The Global Home for Jewish Genealogy and Ramapo alum, will be in conversation about “Using JewishGen to Research Your Roots - Including Holocaust Related Information” with Jerry Zaks, a retired technology expert, who has done just that. The program will take place under […]
On February 9 at 7 PM, ET, Natalia Aleksiun, currently a scholar at the Warsaw Institute of Advanced Study and soon-to-be the Henry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, will discuss the research she has conducted about “Jews Hiding and Passing as Gentiles in Eastern Galicia.” Then Nazi occupied Poland, after […]
On March 23 at 7 PM, ET, Alexandra Garbarini, , professor of history and Jewish studies at Williams College, will discuss "A Terrible and Terribly Interesting Epoch" The Holocaust Diary of Lucien Dreyfus, published last year by Rowman & Littlefield. Dr. Garbarini co-edited the diary with Jean-Marc Dreyfus, reader in Holocaust Studies at the University […]
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