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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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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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Son to Tell Story of His Parents’ Escape during Holocaust from Poland to the Soviet Union and Iran

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

Dr. Victor Borden, a retired obstetrician and gynecologist from Bergen County, Thursday, April 25 at 12 p.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H-129) at Ramapo College of New Jersey will recount how his parents escaped the Holocaust in a presentation with the title, “Flight from German Oppression:Lodz, Arkhangelsk, Teheran, Tel-Aviv, & Paterson.”  The program will be […]

Film on Return of Jewish Holocaust Survivors to Hungary to be Screened

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

The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will screen the film, “1945,” on Thursday, April 4 at 10 a.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H-129) at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The program is free and open to the public. Directed by Ferenc Török and based on the acclaimed short story Homecoming by Gábor T. […]

The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism to be Explored

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

Dr. Paul Hanebrink, associate professor of History and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, will speak on Thursday, March 7 at 12 p.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H-129) at Ramapo College of New Jersey about his recently published book, A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism (Harvard University Press, 2018). The program will be presented under […]

Scholar to Discuss Her Work on Jewish Survivors Returning to Poland after Holocaust

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

Dr. Monika Rice, Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Programs at Gratz College in Philadelphia, will speak on Thursday, February 28 at 12 p.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H-129) at Ramapo College of New Jersey about her recently published book, “What! Still Alive?!" Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming, published by Syracuse University […]

Film to be Screened Exploring Experiences of Jewish Professors from Nazi Germany at Historically African American Colleges

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

Steven Fischler, co-director and producer of “From Swastika to Jim Crow,” will screen his film on Thursday, February 14 at 10 a.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H-129) at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The program will be presented under the auspices of the Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and is free and open […]

Film about Rwanda’s First Female Drumming Group and Ice Cream Store to be Screened

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

Co-director/Producer Rob Fruchter will screen and lead a discussion of the film he made with his sister Lisa, Sweet Dreams, at Ramapo College of New Jersey on Monday, March 9, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H129). The College’s Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Communication Arts’ Cinematheque Series are […]