Dr. Vicki Caron, Professor Emerita of Modern Jewish History in the History Department and Jewish Studies Program at Cornell University, will explore the topic of her new book, The Battle for the Republic: Jews and Catholics in fin-de-siècle France, 1870-1914 (vol. 1 of an anticipated 2 volume work on Jewish Catholic Relations in France, 1870-1964), […]

Melissa Donovan Donovan will screen her award-winning film Zemene and discuss her multiple roles as director, editor, cinematographer, and producer on the film. Zemene (USA, 55m) is a feature documentary about a young Ethiopian girl’s bravery in the face of enormous odds. Living in a remote village with a rare curvature of the spine, Zemene […]

Dr. István Deák, Seth Low Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, will explore how the people and countries under German occupation, as well as Soviet, Italian, and other military rule faced innumerable moral and ethical dilemmas, whether to cooperate with their occupiers, try to survive the war without any political involvement, or risk their […]

The film focuses on retelling the story of this small group of German students who formed a clandestine resistance against the Nazis in the midst of the war by imploring their countrymen to consider the "dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes […]