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Shifting Diasporas of Bialystok Jewry to be Discussed

Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Dr. Rebecca Kobrin, the Joseph Engel Visiting Professor of American Jewish History at Harvard University, will speak on Tuesday, November 26 at 1:45 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges (SC138) of the Robert A. Scott Student Center at Ramapo College of New Jersey about “Competing Diasporas, Shifting Centers: Bialystok's Jews in the Age of World Wars.” […]

World Renown Researcher to Discuss Intergenerational Effects of Trauma

Remotely via WebEx Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

On Thursday, March 5 at 12 p.m., Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and the Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which includes the PTSD clinical research program and the Neurochemistry and Neuroendocrinology laboratory at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, will speak […]

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Re-scheduled as WebEx Virtual Event–Author to Speak About Her Book, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey

Remotely via WebEx Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

On Thursday, April 2 at 12 p.m., Mikhal Dekel, Ph.D., Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will speak about her recently published book, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey (W.W. Norton, 2019).  Her talk will be delivered remotely using WebEx […]

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Joint Holocaust Commemoration with Ramapo Chorale at Beth Haverim Shir Shalom

Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom 280 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom (280 Ramapo Valley Rd., Mahwah, NJ 07430) A Commemorative Concert: Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) The Ramapo Chorale and the Adult Choir of Beth Haverim Shir Shalom

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Re-scheduled as a Webex Event–Scholar to Examine Legacy of Anti-Jewish Persecution in the Soviet Union

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

On Thursday, April 23 at 12 p.m., Elissa Bemporad, Ph.D., the Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust and an Associate Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will speak about her new book, Legacy of Blood: Jews, […]

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Workshop on Teaching about Genocide with Testimony and Film

Friends Hall (SC219) 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mawah, NJ

TIME: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 9 a.m.-3 p.m. PLACE: Robert A. Scott Student Center Friends Hall (SC219) Ramapo College of New Jersey 505 Ramapo Valley Road (Rt. 202) Mahwah, NJ 07430-1623  FREE OF CHARGE –Breakfast and Lunch Included Approved Workshop for Certification Renewal (5 Hours) Assists in Adopting and Implementing N.J. Core Curriculum Standards Language Arts 3.1 Social Studies 6.1­6.3 World Languages 7.1 and 7.2 Register Here: https://bit.ly/2vm2IJo Program 8:30-9 a.m. Registration and Refreshments 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Teaching Film with Testimony I: The Promise:  Introduction of Resources and […]

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Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Professor Jeffrey Ostler (University of Oregon), will conduct a virtual conversation about his 2019 book, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas(Yale University Press) with Ramapo professor Sarah Koenig, Ph. D., who teaches Native American History, and whose book, Providence and the Invention of American History, will be published […]

Hitler’s First Hundred Days

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Professor Fritzsche (University of Illinois-Urban-Champaign) will conduct a virtual conversation about his recent book, Hitler’s First Hundred Days. When Germans Embraced the Third Reich (Basic Books) with Ramapo professor Sam Mustafa, Ph.D., who teaches German History and is the author of several books in the field. Fritzsche’s probing account reveals how Germany’s fractured republic, in the spring […]

British Fascist Women, the Anti-War Campaign and Antisemitism

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Professor Julie Gottlieb (University of Sheffield, UK) will be in conversation with Ellen Ross, Ph. D., Professor Emerita of History and Women's Studies at Ramapo College who written widely in British Women’s History. In the 1930s, Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF), despite never having more than 50,000 members and never having one of […]

Role of Churches in Nazi Germany and Legacies of Antisemitism to be Explored

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Rebecca Carter-Chand, Acting Director of the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust in the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will discuss "The German Churches in the Nazi-Era and the Legacies of Antisemitism." The event will be held under the auspices of The Center for Holocaust and […]

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