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Experiences of Refugees Coming to America to be Related in Their Own Words

Alumni Lounge (SC156) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Lee T. Bycel, a humanitarian activist, rabbi, teacher and author, who serves as the Sinton Visiting Professor of Holocaust, Ethics and Refugee Studies at the University of San Francisco, will speak on Tuesday, November 12 at 1:45 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges (SC156) of the Robert A. Scott Student Center at Ramapo College of New […]

Jewishness on Display: Gender and Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany

Alumni Lounge (SC156) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

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 […]

THE LIBERATION OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMP OF GUNSKIRCHEN

Alumni Lounge (SC156) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Mr. Alan Moskin of Nanuet, New York will speak about how at the beginning of May 1945 as a young G.I. he participated in the liberation of the Gunskirchen Concentration Camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen. He was a member of the 66th infantry, 71st Division, part of General George Patton's 3rd Army. Alan's outfit fought […]