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FILM ABOUT FIRST WOMAN RABBI TO BE SCREENED AT BERGEN COUNTY Y/JCC

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Pascack Valley Jewish Coalition, will sponsor a screening of the recently released documentary Regina, at Bergen County Y/JCC, 605 Pascack Road, Washington Township, NJ 07676, on April 15 at 7 p.m. Sally J. Priesand, the first U.S.-ordained woman rabbi, will introduce and lead a discussion of […]

Role of Women in Postwar Effort to Aid Displaced Persons to Be Discussed

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC157-158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Dr. Ellen Ross, Emerita Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey will discuss “Food and Shelter for Seven Million: The Women of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 1945-1947.” She will  delve into the encounters that women of the UNRAA had with the massive human catastrophe faced in the […]

RECOVERING ARMENIA: THE LIMITS OF BELONGING IN POST-GENOCIDE TURKEY

Trustees Pavilion (PAV1) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, NJ, United States

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 […]

Bringing Testimony, Transforming a Canon: Fiction and Reality in Italian Women Writers of the Holocaust

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

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 […]

Lisbon, the Port of Last Resort, and the Jewish Refugee Crisis of World War II

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

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 […]

On the Run from Hitler in the Soviet Union: A Conversation about Memoir and History

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

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 on the fate of the Polish Jews who during the Holocaust found refuge in the Soviet Union and beyond. While both Friedman and Grossmann are […]

Panel to Discuss the Experience of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Émigrés in Coming to America

Temple Beth Sholom 40-25 Fair Lawn Avenue, Fair Lawn, NJ, United States

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey will host a panel discussion, “Coming to America: Victims of the Shoah and Emigres from the Former Soviet Union and the Middle East.” It will take place on Sunday, April 22, 2018, 10 a.m. at Temple Beth Sholom in Fair […]