In cooperation with the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education Ramapo College of New Jersey, Trustees Pavilion (PAV1 and 2) HOLD THE DATE Details to Follow
On November 29 at 7:15 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion of Ramapo College, Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak about her recent book Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey (Stanford University Press, 2016) . The book follows the trajectories of the survivors of the […]
Dr. Stefania Lucamante will discuss how Italian women writers transmitted a gendered perspective on the devastating effects of Italy’s 1938 racial laws and the Holocaust. She will probe how their works validate notions of collaboration and understanding between fictional writing and the (gendered) rewriting of historical events. Dr. Lucamante completed her graduate studies in Rome […]
Joan Arnay Halperin and Monique Rubens Krohn, the daughters of two families rescued by the Portuguese diplomat, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, will tell the story of his unique and heroic accomplishment. As the Portuguese consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, Sousa Mendes found himself confronted in June of 1940 with the reality of many thousands […]
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in co-sponsorship with Hillel will present Joshua Cohen, ADL New Jersey Regional Director, who will explore the recent rise of anti-Semitism around the world, in the U.S. and locally. Ways to fight anti-Jewish hatred in your community will also be shared. Mr. Cohen joined ADL in 2009, serving […]
Philippe Sands, QC, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London and an international human rights lawyer, will speak about his recently published and acclaimed book, EAST WEST STREET: On the Origins of the “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016). It tells […]
In the light of the many accounts of sexual vulnerability, abuse and rape that occurred during the genocides in Darfur, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, we have come to accept that sexual violence is an intrinsic feature of genocide. No longer is the issue a taboo. Survivors, witnesses, and scholars have become less reticent to discuss […]
The Mischlinge Exposé is a many-layered multimedia performance centering around Carolyn Enger’s family's history and her personal experience with Judaism. The program features the music of German-Jewish-born composers Felix Mendelssohn, Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander Zemlinsky, and Hanns Eisler. It will also highlight a new work written by the acclaimed composer Bruce Adolphe especially for this project. The […]
Professor Kaplan will focus on Jewish refugees in Portugal during World War II and examine a triangle of actors: the Jewish refugees themselves; the Portuguese national and local governments, civil servants, and citizens; and Jewish and transnational philanthropies. Using diplomatic, political, and legal history, and the history of daily life, Kaplan’s presentation will analyze the […]
Dr. Ellen Friedman, Professor of English Literature at the College of New Jersey, and Dr. Atina Grossmann, Professor of History at the Cooper Union, New York, will discuss their recent work […]
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