Dr. Wallach will 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 […]
Mr. Alan Moskin of Nanuet, New York will speak about how at the beginning of May 1945 as a young G.I. participated in the liberation of the Gunskirchen Concentration Camp, […]
On the night of February 15, 2001, Sonia Reich fled her home in Skokie, Illinois, insisting that someone was trying to kill her — to “put a bullet in head,” […]
TIME: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 9 a.m.-3 p.m. PLACE: Trustees Pavilion 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 Registration http://bit.ly/21WcbAh Email: holgen@ramapo.edu Program 8:30-9 a.m. Registration and Refreshments 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Alternatives to Betrayal and Complicity in Genocide and Mass Atrocities: Lessons for the Classroom […]
On September 23 at 2 p.m. in the Robert A. Scott Student Center, Freinds Hall (SC219), Dr. Atina Grossmann, Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences […]
On September 28 at 7 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion (PAV1&2), Mr. Allan Chernoff will discuss the book he co-authored with his mother, Rena Margulies Chernoff, The Tailors of Tomaszow. A communal memoir and history of Holocaust survivors from Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, the book provides a glimpse into the extinguished world of Eastern European Jewry, before, during, […]
On October 6 in the Trustees Pavilion (4 and 7 p.m.), Peter Balakian, the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, will present a lecture and a reading. In addition to his poetry that concerns a wide variety of topics, he will discuss his prose work that chiefly deals with the Armenian Genocide. The […]
On October 6 in the Trustees Pavilion (4 and 7 p.m.), Peter Balakian, the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, will present a lecture and a reading. In addition to his poetry that concerns a wide variety of topics, he will discuss his prose work that chiefly deals with the Armenian Genocide. The […]
Narrated and executive produced by Golden Globe award winner Robin Wright (House of Cards), When Elephants Fight spotlights the illicit mineral trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo and shows how global tech corporations’ complicity has affected the continued conflict in the region. The film will be screened on October 17 at 2 p.m. in the […]
On November 4, 2016 in the Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges ( SC156-157), Eugenie Mukeshimana, Rwandan genocide survivor and founder of the Genocide Survivors Support Network, will provide an update on developments in her native country and neighboring Burundi. More than a quarter of a million people in Burundi have fled in terror […]
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